Help Me Pick!

[trayton]

You'll have to forgive me I am new here so if this is in the wrong place please move!

Anyway I am thinking about getting another system and I was looking at these components please tell me any feedback you might have on these good or bad and any input is appreciated.



MSI MB K8N NEO4 Platinum/SLI Athlon64 Nvidia Nforce4 Socket939 FSB1000 4DDR400
(I looked at the ASUS, GIGABYTE, DFI SLI Boards and from what I read the MSI is best what do you guys think?)

XFX 6800GT PCI-E 256 DDR3 Dual DVI TV-out (2 of these) are these going to work good and perhaps be flashable to ULTRAS??

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ / 2.2 GHz - Socket 939 - L2 512 KB - Box
(i looked at the fx-53 & 55 (but what i was told is i wont notice much of a difference gaming wise its more for video editing etc??) So I decided to only go with the 3500+ as the 3800+ and 4000+ are quite a jump in price.

CORSAIR TwinX 2x512 (1 Gig) PC3200LL Kit
I also thought about ram as all my stuff i have now is generic but am i going to notice a big increase?

only other things I need are decent headset and mic for online gaming and maybe some music.


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EDIT!!!!! : I also need a really good case (for cooling I dont care about modding it all out with fancy lights lol) and I need a really good powersupply so far I have all my systems using Enermax but is something better out or cheaper that is as good? Thanks again for any and all your help people.

 

[amol]

what games are you going to play?

MSI board = good

I don't trust XFX for video cards, i really dont

Also, if the game(s) you plan to play don't have an SLi profile, then just get one 6800GT and then get another one later

BFG and eVGA make good cards

CPU is good, make sure its 90nm winchester

RAM - just get valuram, if you pay $100 more for performance ram you'll see like . . . ONE MORE FPS, and then you might as well spend the $$ for a better vid card

 

[LifeStealer]

DFI is a sweet board if you're going to o/c.

I wouldn't touch an XFX card but thats just me.

You could just buy the 3200+ and overclock it.

If I were you I'd buy OCZ or PDP but Corsair is good as well. If you're not going to overclock I'd just shell out the dough for value ram.

The Tsunami is a good case but "evil" thermaltake makes it. Then again I'm sleepy and just got home from school so this probably doesn't make any sense.

 

[Gamer X]

I don't trust XFX for video cards, i really dont

same here.

The MSI is a good mobo,the chaintech is as good but cheaper.

 

[gunshy]

make sure you get the Winchester 3500 90nm instead of Newcastle 3500 130 nm, same price but runs cooler.
I went with almost same setup but I went with asus mobo and a chainteck6600gt and will get another soon for sli.

 

[w33bo]

you guys just scared me away from xfx...any of you actually try their boards? they seem to get good reviews in the anandtech reviews

 

[leedog2007]

yeah, i've had two xfx boards in addition to the one i order. they both still work and are in other computers

BFG does make good 6800gt's. i had one (for 2 months) and it work great for me. plus its overclocked right out of the box