Building a PC for gaming and recording---->what do you think of this?

Question

---Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

---G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

--BIOSTAR V8603TS51 GeForce 8600GTS 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

---AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor

---Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive

Power supply------Rosewill RD5002-DB 500W,ATX12V v2.2 Power Supply 115/230V FCC, UL

--Audio card----M-AUDIO Audiophile 2496 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface 4-In-4-Out Audio Card with MIDI and Digital I-O

i need this pc for gaming as well as sound recording
any thoughts?

---Thanks

Answer 1

Pretty good set up and would play almost all games decently except perhaps Oblivion and Crysis. I would rate your rig an 8.5. 10 goes for an 8800 Ultra paired with an E6850.

Answer 2

You are doing audio recording so up the hard drive space and down the disk speed. You wont need 10k RPM. What you should do is RAID 0 two 80 GB hard drives and install games on those and then get a third and fourth hard drive around 160 GB and RAID 1 those to make it data safe for the music as well as have plenty of room for your recordings. As far as the video card, im not too big a fan of Biostar. I havent had the best track record with their mobos so Id say to try to find a different brand for the video card. Saving a few bucks now will only come back to haunt you. And as the other guy said, you might as well SLI and if that is too expensive then downgrade to like 7950 card and SLI or something similar. Also, as far as the PSU goes, you should get a well known brand. I use Cool MAx but thats me. Rosewill is good enough but defnitely not best. You should look for a 700 watt PSU as well to leave scalability. Lastly, try to get high quality RAM. Dont be afarid to pay the extra money for good RAM. OCZ and Crucial have great gaming RAM that can cool itself and has high speeds and low latency. This is going to be a great machine so dont hold it back with poor RAM. Remember, get good stuff now to save headaches and time.

Answer 3

What size monitor do you have? You don't need Sli unless your monitor is 24" or larger.
Very good PC.
I espically like your hard drive- much faster than the 7200 RPM ones most people use.

You can play all current games, depending on your operating system.
Sound recording? I would get a high quality microphone also.

I hoep this helps.

Answer 4

Sounds pretty sweet.

Although there is the obvious - you're buying an SLI capable motherboard and video card. If you're wanting to play games on it, why not add that second video card? The SLI stuff is supposed to be awesome.

Answer 5

From what it looks like, you don't have a lot of hard drive space. Might want to up that a bit.