StimpE's new build

I put together a list of hardware and was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions/feedback on better possible hardware for my $$. Anyways, here's the list.

-DFI LAN PARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D
-OCZ Platinum EL PC3200 1GB 2X512MB DDR400 CL2-3-2-5 Dual Channel
-AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Processor S939 San Diego 2.4GHZ 1MB L2 Cache 90NM
-2x(BFG GeForce 7800GT OC 256MB 256BIT GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV VIVO SLI)
-LG DVD-RW combo drive
-Enermax All In One EG565P-VE 535W
-2x(Maxtor DiamondMax 10 100GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA Hard Drive) In RAID 0
-Antec P160W Anodized Aluminum Super Mid ATX Tower

**EDIT**
Decided to take out the 2x Maxtor's, and throw in these:
-3x(80GB WD SATA) In RAID 0
And go with Big B's suggested mbo
-DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR

 

Any particular reason you're going for Maxtor? Wouldn't Western Digitals perform better/be me reliable?

Its a good system overall, but if I were you I'd wait a while for socket AM2 from AMD with DDR2 support. The 4000 is expensive, and you could probably get a decent AM2 chip for the price of that.

As well your video cards. Why don't you get a G71 or see how it performs when its released? Might be better for your money than SLI. Or even ATi, but I prefer nVidia for Linux.

 

Thanks for the insight Addis. I took a second look and 80GB WD SATA's are only $58, I'll get 3 I guess.

As for the AM2, is there an ETA for it? For the video cards, I prefer nVidia right now because they're whoopin ATI with SLI. Also, ETA on the G71?

 

The last i heard, Socket AM2 will be out in June this year.

 

Did a bit of research and it appears that the G71 will be released mid March this year.

 

You planning to mod the Ultra-D so it'll do SLI? The nForce 4 Ultra chipset does not natively support SLI, but it can be modded to. I'd have to find a link, but you can find that info over at DFI Street if you're intrested in it.

Otherwise, go with the SLI-D/SLI-DR (the DR has the extra RAID chip for 8 SATA ports total).

That's about it as far as my thoughts go.

 

I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the tip.

 

It's like $20-30 for the SLI board over the Ultra, but you get the SLI bridge with the SLI board, which was around $20 itself if you buy it online.

 

I've decided to wait for the AM2 and G71. Thanks for the feedback guys.