The New Rig: any changes?

[dibrah]

So here's the new rig I'm building. Total cost of parts with shipping is $1590.

Case: Antec Performance One P160 ATX
Power Supply: Antec NEOPOWER480 ATX 2.0 Power
Extra Case Fan: Antec 120mm SmartCool Case Fan
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Audio/GB-LAB/PCI-E/Firewire/USB/SATA2
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 512K 90nm (939)
Memory: DDR (400) 3200 - 1 GB (2 pcs 512) Corsair
Hard Drive: SATA - Seagate (ST3200822AS) 200 GB/7200rpm
DVD-RW: NEC ND-3520A/SV 4x-DVD+R DL/16x4
Floppy Drive: No name $15 jobby
Video Card: BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC 256MB GDDR3/PCI-E

I'm going to salvage an optical drive, sound card and firewire card from my old PC. So, any changes or suggestions?

 

[TheOasis]

a lot of people say the p160 is crap, i would personally go with a lian-li pc-61 for about $100. maybe you might also want to get a cheaper non-modular PSU and use the extra cash for an SLI motherboard for a better upgradepath.

other then that it looks great.

 

[drpootums]

looks good i guess. What kind of memory is that? Corsair is kinda vague...

Other than that, i dont see a problem anywhere!

 

[drpootums]

oh yeah, and just seeing TheOasis's post, i wouldnt go SLI unless u want to waste money and get no noticable performance increase at lower res (12x10 or lower). I know it'll give u a higher benchmark, but other than that, it wont help u much exept if u like to play at really high res.

 

[TheOasis]

drpootums, its not about more performance its about a better upgrade path. and who says he wants to play at 12x10 and below?

 

[drpootums]

who says he wants to pay $100+ more for something he will not notice if he doesnt play at 16x12?

It's also not a better upgrade path IMO. I suppose u could add another video card later on if u wanted too, but by that time the next NV50/R50 would probably be out. Not Bang for the buck or cost effective at all IMO.

If he wants to play at super high res. or waste money, then by all means he can go for it.

 

[imported_MooGoo]

$100 extra (if that, many SLI boards are now extremly competitive with non-SLI) is piddily when dropping $1500 for a new computer. You minswell pay the extra for SLI if you want, because the motherboard is one of the least likly components you are going to upgrade down the line.

Also, playing at 1600x1200 just rocks. And if your monitor supports that res, why wouldn't you want to use it? It's like playing games in ultra high-def, and it makes Anti-Aliasing almost useless. That said, I've had no problems with 1600x1200 with just one 6800GT, but by the time the next gen GPU's come out costing $600 a card, I'll be able to toss in another 6800 GT for like $100. Which will smooth out the reamaining problems on todays games, and probably hold its own for a good while with games released in the future. I know many people still running with a Ti4400 just fine, so I imagine 2x6800 GT's will fare even better.

 

[MobiusPizza]

but soon we'll drool over new range graphic cards that support WGF 1.0 or WGF2.0 to be used on Longhorn