New PC

[rahan46]

What do you guys think of this setup?

Case - Thermaltake Xaser II A5000C
CD-RW - Lite On 52x32x52
CPU Fan - VANTEC AeroFlow VA4-C7040
Hard Drive - WD 120gb 7200rpm w/ 8mb cache
Memory - CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 256MBx2 32MX8 PC-3200C2 With Heat Spreader OEM
Mobo - MSI Motherboard for AMD Processors Model K7N2
PSU - Allied 400W Power Supply ATX400P4 w/ Two Fans
CPU - AMD ATHLON XP 2500+ "Barton" 333 FSB
Video card - Sapphire Atlantis ATI RADEON 9600 PRO 128MB 8X AGP

What do you guys think about this? I'm not sure whether or not to get a DVD rom drive or not.

[bugalaman]

i'd reccomend the abit nf7-s motherboard, but other than that it looks good

[joker_927]

Good choice of CPU, great budget video card, mobo seems good. Why the dual 256's instead of 1 x512? Benchmarks that I have read show no increase in running your mem this way. Plus its cheaper to just buy 1 stick.

I would buy GEIL ram. I used to only buy Corsair, then I realized gail looked cooler, ran better, and costed less.

Here is the link to some 3200 geil ram

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...on=geil%2C3200

[thePh@r@oh]

i agree with joker i've got GEIL pc3200 ram and it is awesome.

[rahan46]

Well a lot of people have told me not to go cheap with the memory so I decided on Corsair. Anyone know if this MSI board has problems with Geil?

[joker_927]

"going cheap" on memory would be buying House Brand ram, or Crucial Value Ram or Apacer ram.

Geil is NOT value ram. It's like AMD's to intel's: they are cheaper and perform just the same, if not better.

As for compatibilty, I dont see why it wouldn't work. of the 23 reviews at Newegg's of the board there is a guy who sasy he uses geil in dual channel mode and it works flawlessly.