First time build

[toolman3]

Case-Thermaltake Viking
PSU-Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480w
Dvd-Plextor 716a
Sound Card-Creative Audigy2 zs Gamer
Hard Drive-Maxtor Diamond 10 sata 300gb
floppy-Mitsumi 7-1 reader with floppy
Video Card-BFG 6800gt OC
MB-MSI Neo2 Platinum
Cpu-Amd 3500+ winchester

only thing left is the memory and though i dont know much about oc'ing would rather
get 1 gig of performance ram than a value type,any idea's?

 

[KoolDrew]

Don't get a Thermaltake PSU. They droop their rails under heavy load. Overall they are not a good buy. There are much better options in that price range.

 

[imported_itr]

performance ram and value ram have very slight differences, gaming wise. value ram, however, don't overclock very well. that's when you should look into more expensive ram.

 

[wisdomtooth]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Don't get a Thermaltake PSU. They droop their rails under heavy load. Overall they are not a good buy. There are much better options in that price range.

Agreed!

On top of that, the Not-So-"Silent Purepower" actually sounds like a NASA aircraft-testing wind tunnel. :laugh:

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: itr
performance ram and value ram have very slight differences, gaming wise. value ram, however, don't overclock very well. that's when you should look into more expensive ram.

or you could just run a divider

 

[Jotho]

Set yourself a budget and see what you can do with it. Performance memory will help you when overclocking 1:1, but A64s don't necessarily take a huge performance hit when running a divider to keep the memory around 200 MHz.

 

[qbek]

You could save some money by buying a cheaper DVD.
NEC 3520 seems to be the recommended consensus here.