Please rate my computer?

Question

- AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ 3.3GHz (OC'd) with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro heatsink

- Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wifi Edition

- 4 GB DDR2 OCZ 800 MHz RAM

- 2 x SATA2 160 WD Caviar SE Hard Drives in RAID0 + an IDE WD 120 GB + 250 GB external My Book

- 2 x BFG Geforce 8800 GTS 320 MB OC Graphics cards

- Thermaltake 750 Watt PSU

- Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Case with 2 x antec smartcool 120mm fans

- Vista Ultimate + XP

pau h -
buying parts individually comes out much cheaper than buying from places like alienware where you get ripped off. This only came to £1300, around $2600

Jim -
Ive always used amd, and my excuse to go for amd instead of intel is because amd is bringing out its new processors in a couple of months. So I can simply upgrade to a Barcelona quad or something else they bring out seeing as im using socket AM2 and so will they. As for Vista..it isn't too bad, just really quite annoying that alot of programs are incompatible..I tried Linux a while back but it really isn't my kind of thing.

Sorry PCMedic...probably should of included this. I am currently building it, but i wanted to see what people thought of it before I bought all the parts...I've used Asus motherboards in all my computers and never really had any problems. I probably will be buying a new sound card for gaming because I'm also going to be buying a creative 7.1 sound system(not sure which yet) but at the minute most of my music is played through media center on my 360 and out my sterio. I have a cd-rw and a dvd-rw here and an IISonic 19 inch monitor with 75Hz Refresh rate (you may of never heard of this company because i bought it from Spain).

Mysticman44 -

Thanks for letting me know about the AM2+ thing, I didn't realise this. I guess that was the whole point in doing this..to get some advice before I build it. But I am willing to spend money to buy a new motherboard/ram and whatever else I will need to get the new chips working at full performance. Thanks for the info about the graphics card as well, basically I just searched google for a DX10 compatible graphics card and the GTS is the only one I could find...I may end up going for the 640MB version in SLI anyway but i`ll definitely consider a GTX instead. Also I know Intel has much better processors right now, and I read on slashdot that Intel are releasing a new Penyrn chip...though on wikipedia it says that its only for laptops but I don't know. Anyway I'm a huge amd fan, even though I know right know Intel has the superior performance, I will always try and find ways to justify going for amd. I am going to start building sometime in may.

Answer 1

That is one of the best builds I have ever seen anyone ask about on here, I have just two things I want to add, not really criticisms, just things to think about.

The first is AMD vs Intel. Like I said, not a criticism just wanted to give you something to think about. While the new AMD processors will work in an AM2 slot, they are intended to work in an AM2+ slot. AM2+ will have a faster HpyerTransport and some better power management features. So if you get one of the new AM2+ designed processors coming out later this year, you will be able to use it in this motherboard, but you won't get the the full added benefits out of it, because you will not be able to use the new faster HyperTransport. As for Intel, they will also be coming out with new processor later this year, so its really hard to look into the future and know what will be better. As for right now, the Intels are a bit faster, and even more so when you overclock. But, you have a very good processor there, so no worries.

The other thing I saw was that you are running 2 of the GeForce 8800GTS 320MB editions. Now here in America, a single 8800GTX will beat two 8800GTS in SLI, and is cheaper. It may end up costing more there, but here the 8800GTX would be cheaper and therefore would be the much better choice. Also if you haven't built this yet, there are a largen number of new cards that will come out in the next month, which will give you a much better selection, and will drive prices down.

Answer 2

Not bad except for the board. I use to build almost exclusively with Asus but lately they have had problems. It lately seems to be their SATA interfaces, onboard sound (if you use it) and memory recognition. Usually you can get everything to work, but it's a matter of troubleshooting updating the BIOS or finally figuring the board ship DOA and having to return. It's not worth the hassle in my opinion.

I didn't notice any optical drives listed so definitely think about that preferably a multi-format DVD writer. They're cheap these days.

I'll be honest I'm not familiar with Thermaltake's PSUs, just make sure it can handle the load especially running SLI.

Memory's decent. Have used OCZ in the past no problems.

How are the temps inside the case? I can't tell by the way you phrased the question if it's built yet or if you're still spec'ing out. It's been a while since I've built an air-cooled system that's overclocked. Usually try some other cooling method to drop the temp when I'm overclocking. Done the water-cooled thing (and still do for mildly overclocked), and have done refrigeration (for overclocking and also sound issues).

Given what I see I'd rate you a 8/10 overall. It's not a bad system in the least other than possible mobo problems.

Answer 3

You had me interested right up until I saw Vista.

Just read a pretty good review on the GeForce 8800 GTS graphics cards. Only question was if the DX10 would perform well but there weren't any games to test on it. The ATI 1950 card outperformed slightly in many of the test but is only DX9.0c compliant.

I'm getting ready to build a new system myself and I'm still on the fence between AMD and Intel. The Intel chips are pretty impressive lately but I'm historically an AMD fan.

Everything else looks pretty good to me. When can you ship it to me :)?

Answer 4

fairly sweet. i love the SSD. And the GFX card. The processor is somewhat meh. ought to improve to an i7-2500k. Or i7-980x (once you're feeling truly magnificent). Kinda overkill on the RAM, even if that's as a lot as you. I doubt you'll use 0.5 that. PSU is overkill and Kingwin is an iffy employer, for positive. you truly in straightforward words favor 1000w max. 800w is possibly typical.

Answer 5

You bought a great one. It's very good configuration for today's Computer. Nice!

Answer 6

that computer is top of the line 10/10

Answer 7

out of out

extraordinary

Answer 8

Cool. How did u pay that?

Answer 9

very nice ! you have bragging rights....