Looking for a final critue of my system.

[innocentbastard]

I am getting very close to purchasing the following system and wanted to get everyone's thoughts...

P4 1.6A
Abit BD7-II
Samsung PC2700 512 megs
Antec 1080B w/ true power 430w
stock cooling unless suggested otherwise
GF4 Ti4400...still deciding on brand

I will be using the follwing also which I already have
Lite-on CDRW 32x12x40
Lite-on DVD 16x
SB Audigy OEM
Viewsonic 21 P815
Maxtor 80gb 7200 ATA133
Maxtor 80gb 5400 AtA100 (may or may not use)
I am still open to suggestions so if you see something that I should change please let me know. This pc will be primarily for gaming and will be my first attempt at overclocking.

 

[herbage11]

Looks great to me. I just built same setup except on Asus p4s533 w/ Ti4200 and Chieftec case w/ 420 watt. PS system smokes. You will be happy.
Edit: I need to proof read 1st...sry

 

[innocentbastard]

If you don't mind me asking what sold you on the Asus? It is one of the things I am still wavering on.

 

[ShadowDJ]

Abit Siluro is one of the best Ti4400s, with a quiet fan, ramsinks, and good 2d quality (from reviews). I've heard two 256 meg dimms oc better than one 512.

 

[Siddhartha]

Looks good!

 

[RamIt]

Looks good. If you are going to be overclocking you might want to make sure you get the true samsung chips with the samsung pcb.
I have the BD7II-Raid with a 1.6@2400+. DDR 412 with 512 mb XMS-3200

 

[innocentbastard]

Thanks and yeah I was going to get the Samsung from Newegg which from what I have heard everywhere is true Samsung. My only concern now is that the BD7-II only supports up to 4 ata devices. I did find the Abit IT7 which supports 8 devices, but I have heard some problems with overclocking. I was trying to find one in both Rambus and DDR to compare the prices. Are there any boards that support more than 4 or is there someway around this?

 

[Zukatah]

I have a P4 1.6a (pack date 15/5) with an Asus P4S533 (what sold me on that motherboard is the lack of P4B266-c at my local store) with a 512megs of samsung PC 2700. I am currently in the process of overclocking the beast.... The only bad thing on that motherboard so far is the lack of PCI/AGP lock. Everything was fine a 2.6ghz, but I got corrupted files.... I backed it down to 2.51 ghz and everything seems to be fine (running Prime95 to be sure....). If it's stable, I'll try again at a higher FSB and when I'll have maxed my possibilities, I'll tweak the RAM. I'm at 1.632vcore and 51c under load (United devices and Prime95 running at the same time...) with the stock Intel HSF and AS3.
For the first computer I build myself, I can say I'm very happy with it. Another sweet thing about this mobo is the C-Media sound... it sounds better than my SB 512PCI (I sold that already), it has integrated LAN (I'll put it in another box....) and the manual is very good except one thing: they don't mention to plug only 2 of the 3 power connectors, if you ppplug the 3 in, you are very likely to fry your board (some people here have experienced that issue) so be careful if you buy it...

 

[RamIt]

Originally posted by: innocentbastard
Thanks and yeah I was going to get the Samsung from Newegg which from what I have heard everywhere is true Samsung. My only concern now is that the BD7-II only supports up to 4 ata devices. I did find the Abit IT7 which supports 8 devices, but I have heard some problems with overclocking. I was trying to find one in both Rambus and DDR to compare the prices. Are there any boards that support more than 4 or is there someway around this?

The BD7II-Raid supports "8" ata devices.