Hey all! I'm about to order this package from Newegg. This is my first build ever! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This will be used for gaming & music. $1700 plus shipping Case -Spire SP-ATX-PALU/B Pininfarina Black Aluminum 6.0mm | SECC 1.0mm ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail x2 in SLI HIPER HPU-4B580-MS ATX12V 580W Power Supply - Retail AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4200BVBOX - Retail CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PRO - Retail Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM SAMSUNG 205BW Black 20" 6ms Widescreen LCD Monitor with Height Adjustments - Retail SAMSUNG Combo Drive Black IDE Model SH-M522C/BEBN - OEM SAMSUNG 16X DVD±R DVD Burner With 5X DVD-RAM Write and LightScribe Black ATA/ATAPI Model SHS162LBEBN - OEM Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/SP2B -
First of all, Welcome to HWF Special D RAM: 1GB is good enough for most of the games but not for all, so increase it to 2GB if possible. Recommendations The only thing I would like to recommend you is to go for AM2 or Core 2 Duo(better than AM2) istead of 64 X2. Reason being, you will get a future proof system. But that will require a different Mobo and RAM. You can do more overclocking with them though. I dont know much about Video cards, so cant say anything about it.
