I just configred a new computer on www.cyberpowerpc.com?

Question

Specs are as follows

CASE: Sigma Gaming Shark 9-Bay Gaming Tower 420W Case

CPU: (Socket AM2) AMD Athlon™64 X2 6400+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

MOTHERBOARD: (Socket AM2)Asus Crosshair nForce 590 SLI MCP Chipset DDR2/800 MBoard w/ Dual 16x PCI-Express

4GB (4x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Value Select or Major Brand)

VIDEO CARD: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 16X PCI Express (EVGA Superclocked Powered by NVIDIA)

HARD DRIVE: 750GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

SOUND: Creative Labs X-FI XtremeGamer 24-BIT PCI Sound Card

is there anything I should change? So far all this is costing me $3100 with the OS, speakers, and the keyboard and mouse.

thanks for your input guys...instead of the 420w changed it to 750 w...does that sound a little bit better?

actually i added a Thermaltake Toughpower 700W Power SupplyQuad SLI Ready and got rid of the 420w

Answer 1

That's a pretty impressive system. However, I would recommend a more powerful Power Supply Unit (PSU) than 420 watts. That's pretty close to the minimum for handling the other great components that you have selected. I would recommend 500 watts or preferably more for this system. The GeForce 8800 GTX is a power hungry beast. Not only do you need power for all of the internal components, but many USB devices draw their power from the PSU as well. If you plan on playing the new generation of 3D games, you need to have sufficient sustainable power to handle them. It would be a shame to under power a system such as this.

Answer 2

That power supply can not handle an 8800GTX 768. You need at least 450watts with +12V rails of at least 28 amps.
Find a case without a power supply and put one of these in.
Has 3 +12V rails at 18 amps each. If you really like the case buy it anyway and yank the PSU out and see how much heavier the one you're putting in is! PSUs included with cases are junk and don't deserve to be in a sweet build like yours. Make sure you power each of the 6 pin connectors on the video card off different rails.
http://www.buy.com/prod/corsair-520w-sli-certified-modular-atx-power-supply/q/loc/101/203270716.html

Answer 3

Maybe downgrade your Video Card and instead get an SLI setup since your mobo can take it. You'll probably need a stronger power unit as well.

Answer 4

Depend on Uses, Suggestion, lower RAM to 2g, Casing Options cause this only the looks and have a good AVR to protect your PC. This is too much extreme for a gamer.

Answer 5

if you have that sort of money to wast on a computer system then you have more money than sense, or is it just another pipe dream

if it is for games... split the difference and build a server. and use the system you have now with it... it will work faster...