Custom build - your thoughts

Hi all

I am bored of my pre-built computer where I cant change things to my liking so I am scrapping it and build one so I can game in a Ferrari

Thinking of following components: what do you think?

Case: Thermaltake Tai-Chi VB5000SNA
Power supply: Seasonic S12-600HT
Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (since FX60 has no real advantage to FX57 for games)
Fan: Zalman CNPS9500 LED
Mémory: Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO (2 x 1 Gb)
HD: 2 x Western digital Raptor 150 Go Serial ATA 10000 trs/mn
3.5 Disk Drive: Mitsumi 7-in-1
DVD-R: Plextor PX-760A
Graphics card: Point Of View GeForce 7900 GTX 512Mb
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS

Let me know your thoughts

 

I presume money doesn't seem to be a problem then

Nice system

 

lunarwolf, id be over the moon if i had ur system.....why on earth do u want to change

anyways:

Case: Thermaltake Tai-Chi VB5000SNA (id change this to Antec P180)
Fan: Zalman CNPS9500 LED (id change this to artic freeze pro 64)

other than that, ur system is great!

 

thx for feedback Prankz.

I like the Freezer 64 Pro and its cheaper , but I still like the the Thermalake which is bigger and has more functionality

Cheers

 

Very nice case, I would suggest the case with the pre-installed water cooling, should save you a lot of work.

Good PSU, I personally would prefer the UltraX2 (what I am currently using), it has 50 less watts, but your saving yourself about 100 USD, and If you wanted to you could get the pretty blue LED if you like shiney stuff.

Nice Choice! Very easy to overclock, gets a little warm though.

Great Processor, however the FX-60 can raise your benchmarks on 3dmark06 by almost 2000 marks. It does have an impact in game, but you are saving about 350-400USD

'eh, I would suggest water cooling over this because your probably going to want to OverClock the 4800+ This is a nice fan though.

Nice choice, You'll have to play with the RAM timings a bit to get them to optimal speeds, but the motherboard will run this RAM wonderfully.

That's quite a bit of space, nice speed, hopefully you intend on putting these in RAID 0?

Not much to say, whatever works. I don't think that you can find this particular model in silver to match your case though. But that's all personal preferance if you care.

Nice choice, plextor is a great brand. Somewhat pricey, but worth it.

Nice video card, I might go with a different brand however, eVGA, BFG, PNY, just something a little more well-known (not much difference in cost)

One of the best!

Overall, very nice setup. You're going to have to play with RAM timing and overclocking speeds a bit when you purchase it all, but it should work wonderfully with just a little work.