Just need an opinion

[Sinner]

Okay I've been saving for a few months now in order to purchase, or more to the point finish purchasing, the "guts" for my new desktop. I already have a 510w PC Power & Cooling PSU, Pre-mod case (okay I'm lazy and dangerous to myself when in possesion of power tools so sue me) and all that jazzy snazz but I still need help.

Does the following look like a solid system? The reason I ask is because I am a tad worried about having two 1gb stick of ram but then again all the games and such today are such mem whores in so many ways I dont want to lag the system cause I scrooged on the ram.

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103529&CMP=BAC-hardocp_pujune&ATT=AMD64)
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517&CMP=BAC-hardocp_pujune&ATT=ASUS_A8N-SLI)
Corsair XMS DDR 400 2x1024 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575&CMP=BAC-hardocp_pujune&ATT=CorsairXMS2GB)
BFG Tech 7800 GTX 256MB BFGR78256GTXOC (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143036&CMP=BAC-hardocp_pujune&ATT=BFGTech7800)

That all adds up to ABOUT $1,500 roughly. Which is about all I want to spend. Any and all help would be appreciated! :D ;-)

[Starbuck3733T]

What chips are in that ram? You'd be wise to find something that has BH5 in it, like OCZ VX or some of the older (read: ebay) Mushkin Black Level II. Good ram that stuff.

[CandyKid]

He won't find 1GB modules with Winbond BH-5's in them... besides that, the TCCD's OC better than the BH-5's did anyways, so I'd go with those if you really wanted.

FYI, the PC4400 modules out there rated at CAS 2.5 are TCCD's.

HOWEVER, the TwinX2048-3200C2 would be a good way to go for stock-speed stability and 2GB of RAM.

PLUR
CK

[Sinner]

You mean something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/OldVersion/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-227-206&depa=0

[CandyKid]

I don't know what IC's are in that module, but probably not BH-5's. READ: Winbond has not made a single IC in well over a year. You cannot buy new stock modules with BH-5 IC's in them.

Also take note that they require 3.3 volts to run those latencies which will probably void your mainboard and CPU warranty. JEDEC DDR-I spec is 2.5 volts and the better warranties I've seen cover ~0.5v above that.

Also #2, you'd need active cooling with 3.3 volts on those!

PLUR
CK

[BigBen2k]

Personally, I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the SLI bandwagon; just use a VC that's one step lower, and stick to the A8N board (non-SLI). You'll save yourself some money too.

[Sinner]

Personally, I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the SLI bandwagon; just use a VC that's one step lower, and stick to the A8N board (non-SLI). You'll save yourself some money too.

The only reason I "chose" that video card and mobo in particular is because I probably will not update for well over a year or maybe even two. So I figure I should get the best I can now. Also I don't see a 6800 lasting that long without getting water cooling or some other form of better than air cooling.

[jaguarking11]

if you plan on overvolting your ram be very carefull. It seems that the a64chips are geting killed because of onboard mem controller and overvolting. Check xtreme forums for more detail.

[CandyKid]

Yeah, you'll want to remember this:

The VDimm setting can overvolt the memory modules, but also controls the MCH voltage. If the MCH is in your CPU, guess what that means!

One last FYI: Winbond BH-5 IC's are 32MB, so you can't actually make a 1GB module out of them without stacking (It would take 32 IC's on one module)... and nobody likes that! :p

PLUR
CK

[Leeum]

Personally, I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the SLI bandwagon; just use a VC that's one step lower, and stick to the A8N board (non-SLI). You'll save yourself some money too.

I'd stop away from the Asus, the DFI NF4 is the mother of all socket 939 boards. If you wanted to save some cash get the NF4 SLI-D and mod it to the DR to run SLI, i've heard it's simple enough to do :magic:

[Is it a question..]

DONT jump on the nvidia band wagon..... ATI have just released their equivilent of their sli technologie. personally i think it sounds a whole hell of a lot better than what sli would ever be able to offer. :shock:

i really would wait and grab an ati crossfire enabled graphics card. read up on it here http://www.ati.com/technology/crossfire/index.html :thumb: :thumb:

but hey thats just me thinking out loud.

[CandyKid]

I'll keep my vote until I see some benchmarks, but there's always goodness when there's competition!

PLUR
CK