My Next System

[Psychosematic]

I always like to run my plan across the forums before I actually build so I can get several opinions before I do.

Keep in mind that I am going small form factor!

Aspire X-QPACK-AL/420 Black/Silver Aluminum MicroATX Desktop Computer Case $98.99
XCLIO XClio 450BL ATX 450W Power Supply $59.49
Foxconn NF4K8MC-ERS Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard $89.00
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor $272.00
ThermalTake Silent Boost K8 80mm Heatsink/Fan $36.49
2x 1GB GeIL Ultra 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR400 PC-3200 System Memory $189.00
256MB Rosewill RADEON X800XL 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI-Express x16 Video Card $269.00
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum 7.1 24-bit 192KHz PCI Sound Card $162.00
ATI HDTV Wonder Remote Control Edition PCI TV Tuner $151.99
2x 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B200M0 7200RPM 8MB SATA150 NCQ Hard Drives $222.00
Lite-On SOHW-1673S Black IDE DVD Burner $61.99
NEC FD1231H-302 Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive -
19? Acer AL1914smd Black/Silver 12ms LCD Monitor $291.99

Total is $1904

 

[MobiusPizza]

Ah a pretty beefy system for a small form factor

The choice of components is great; esp. the CPU and GPU parts.

I just wanna ask what are you doing with the system? Gaming?

2GB RAM is usally an overkill currently unless you do intense photoshop and video editing

2X DiamondMax? Are you planning to RAID?

 

[TeraTank]

i would get a CRT instead of that LCD, if you are going to be gaming you are going to be very unsatisfied. And if you're like me and do graphic design make sure to not get an LCD the colors are never true. It looks like you are going for mass storage. If not just use the money you saved from not getting the LCD and RAID 0 (striped) 2x WD 74gb Raptors.

 

[Psychosematic]

Thanks!

Yea I will be gaming but also, with the HDTV Tuner, this will be a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) so it's going to be recording and encoding video at night time. I am also a big multi-tasker and with my current 1GB RAM system, I've noticed that just with the stuff I leave in the background 24/7, the RAM usage approaches 512MB, so when I load up a game such as HL2, all of my 1GB is in use, so I wanna bump it up a notch.

And I do plan on RAID 0, I will be backing up nightly to a server on my LAN so I'm not concerned about the failure rate of RAID 0

 

[TeraTank]

yeah definetly get 2gb i just purchased an SLI system for graphic design (and gaming) (w/ 2gb of ram) and it's been awesome. HL2 1600:1200 max anti and ani, im getting 152.1 fps...

 

[imported_DeanO]

Hope I'm not too late: The case includes a 420W PSU, so you don't need the other one (which probably won't fit anyway). Aside from that, nice set-up. Also look at the MSI RX480M2 (I think that's what it's called) - it's a Micro-ATX board with the ATI Express 200 Chipset. Not sure if it's better, but still, worthy of consideration at least...

 

[imported_Technomancer]

Nothing less than Quad-Octocore CPU's from AMD with DDR5 controllers, 2 GB of cache, 4 Thz HT, 8 Ghz clock. Oh yeah.