Going to build a new computer

[Steve]

I'm gonna build a new computer... it's ment for gaming but tell me what you all think of the HW I picked out.


POWMAX Clear Acrylic Micro-ATX Case w/red led's
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ "Barton"
1GB of Corsair XMS Memory (2x512)
ATi Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
Maxtor 200GB SATA HDD
Thermaltake "Hardcano 9" Cooler and LCD heat Monitor
Thermaltake Highest Performance SMART and SILENT Volcano 9 CPU Cooler
Thermaltake W0013 Silent Purepower 480W with Silver housing

well theres some more little things but not really worth adding.... well what do u think? I think it's gonna be one hell of a gaming machine... lots of ThermalTake :eek:
:banana: :banana:

[Chicken]

Sounds like a beast and errrr.... blows what I use out of the water, though I'll say that I use it primarily to work the forum, email, etc., so I really don't need much.

[silverfreak]

Yeah, sounds like you have all the bells and whistles! I'm envious already man!

[Steve]

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: ;)

[ShaneS]

Steve:

You didn't list the MoBo (Mother/Main Board) brand/model. That would be a nice thing to list.

Not sure what your budget is...
but why no got the 64 bit route and got with a board that (if yours doesn't) supports SATA raid and do a raid 1 or 0+1 so you can have faster R/W access to and from the drives.

Also is the Maxtors a 7200 RPM or 10,000 RRM...if the former look into WD SATA drives that have 10,000 ROM drives if you can afford it.

[Steve]

Theres no point in spending the money on the 64's nothing is out for them no games or nothing... just don't see the point in it.

[xAngelx]

Barton isn't worth it till theres apps out there for it, by then the price will drop too. Better to go for the P4 3Ghz HT chip if you want the best performance.

Not fond of ATI cards either, technically they are great, driver wise they still can't get it right, blew two monitors (one of which was a $1500 LCD...ouch) running an ATI, swapped in my old Geforce FX5900 and no monitor problems since.

[Steve]

Barton is just the core of it.... as for the ATi cards they are and make the best... also Pentiums aren't for gaming