What do you think of my future PC?

[TxShadow]

Just getting some other peoples opinions... though I already practically know them!

 

I'm currently working as much as I can at my job, aside of studying for college finals which are this week, to build my own personal PC, just for "me", not anyone else in the house. (its hard to find time when multiple people want on a PC and you have only a small window of oppertunity that you can use it!)

 

So, I'm going to construct my PC to be a nice little smooth machine. What is your opinions and possibly any suggestions?

 

Case: Turbo X-Dreamer Case (Black)

Processor: AMD Athlon 64-Bit 4000+

Motherboard: ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset

RAM: 1024MB (1GB) Kingston Hyper-X High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader

Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card

HardDrive: 160GB Hitachi

Drive 1: 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER

Drive 2: SONY 52X CD-ROM

PSU: Super Alien 500-Watt See-Through Power Supply

OS: XP Home

Mouse: Unsure, but Optical, wired, and I have two in mind right now

 

This is just the starting off PC. I will have a 19in. monitor as well as two additional speakers. These are the upgrades that I will be doing after I get this PC in a month:

 

An additional 7800 GT, but possibly a 7800 GTX 512MB PCI:E, and I'll just sell the 7800 GT. The SLI motherboard is just so in the future, I can add an additional card, but for now just one 7800 GT will be very plentiful.

 

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.

 

RAM upgrade to 2GB of Kingston Hyper-X

 

A PCI Ethernet card, instead of "onboard".

 

Those are just the later upgrades that I'll do after I get my PC. I would just wait and get it all in one package, but I want my PC as soon as possible for reasons that I wont bor you with here, but one does include being able to play the EaW demo to my hearts content!

 

So, how do you guys feel about this machine I'm going to put together?

[Garbageben]

That's an awesome pc! Kicks mine in the rear and I built mine 6 months ago. You should be set for gaming for 3 years or so even with your system at those specs.

 

My pc has this:

 

AMD 64 3200+

2 Gigs Corsair RAM

6800GTs in SLI

80 GB harddrive

200 GB harddrive

Audigy 2 Sound Card

 

Anyway you'll be able to play EaW totally maxed out (I hope I will be able to as well). Post some screens please of EaW when the demo comes.

[TxShadow]

I will, but I wont get my PC for another month to 1 1/2 months max. The demo is supposed to be out this month, so I'll be playing it on my families PC at the start, which it has:

 

AMD Athlon 64-bit 3400+

1GB RAM (dont know the brand)

ATI Radeon X700 Pro 256MB PCI Express

OnBoard Audio

 

Though I do like its 19in. LCD monitor, its keyboard, and its mouse.

 

Also, that X700 survived a direct lightening bolt blast to the house, which fried the other PC we had, which was a AMD Athlon 3200+, 1GB RAM, and X700 Pro. So far its has seemed to work just fine for the past two months.

[Deadeye31_pff]

I just built my computer and went a for a bargain one so I built:

 

Athlon 3500+

1 Geforce 6600GT

1 gig of ram

160GB hard drive

 

 

as for you, if you're going to go above the 3700+ get a dual core processor.

 

newegg.com (where you should buy everything unless zipzoomfly.com has it for cheaper) has dual core Athlon 3800+ for less than the 4000 and that second processor will do wonders.

 

Also, if you go Athlon get a socket 939 board, the 939s go all the way to the Athlon 4800+ dual core so upgrading will be as easy as pie.

 

just my suggestions.

[TxShadow]

I do not want a dual-core for now. The price differences between the 4000+ and a better dual-core is too much for me at the moment. However, the processor will be a 939-pin, so I can upgrade later on as you've said.

 

I am getting a lot of my things from newegg; just so you know that I am well aware of that website; nice deals there.

[Popcorn2008]

*dies of envy and shock*

Wow how much do you predict the cost to be? That is gonna be one sweet gaming machine.

[TxShadow]

It will cost me around $2,000 in the end. But the starting PC, the one before the extra add-on upgrades, will run me around $1,600. I might shave off a few more bucks by getting a couple parts from other places instead of the main place I'm going to.