new computer

Pretty nice I will post up what I am getting (probably

final part tommorow) You got the same Motherboard that I did too. I opted for the 3800 AMD

(Nitro has the 4000 [1] LOL)
I didn't go with the SLI Video card at this time... And I

got Muskin 3500 with heat spreaders. I haven't heard of that Power supply, I went with an

Antec 550 True Watt.
Hope if flies for you though!

Improve on your ram (1

GB in dual channel), and you might want to consider an extra 12 cm papst casefan. An AMD64

can become pretty hot, and if you take a 12 cm papst fan you will introduce some extra cool

air in your case without adding much noise.

You might want to swap the motherboard

for a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Platinum. This board has an onboard creative soundblaster 24 bits

soundchip and provides the same functions as a PCI SB Live card.

What kind of monitor

are you gonna use? And speakers?

maybe u could consider adding a new cpu cooler

other than the one included in cpu box (is not the best cooler in world, u know...)
my

experience is this increases system stability and performance as much as a case fan with a

somewhat minor increase in the computer noise level

anyways, cool computer

cpu: upgrade it to

3500

ram: forget samsung, get corsair, very good + lifetime guarantee 1gig is

absolute minimum, for 1 gig, go for 2x512 for 2gig go 2x1gig

board: forget msi, they

over heat, gigabyte are good, and be sure its nforce3 pro chipset

gpu: forget nvidia,

i was an nvidia guy but after i tried ati ille never go back, get the x800 (sure its costy

but is good) oh and forget msi, they overheat

*by over heat ime serious, ive tried it

myself and msi boards/gfx cards get much higher temps than other manufec..

hdd:

seagate are good even maxtor

tower: just make sure its spacious, coolermaster are

great

psu: 480w is too low for that kind of pc, get a pure power psu from

thermaltake.. 550w MINIMUM, the more the better

casefan/cooling: forget fans, just

use the fans that come with the case for the case, as for cpu/gpu get watercooling.. i did

that, its amazing, got a 30deg celsius drop with an aquarius2 (thermaltake) (and it wont

short your pc, just make sure you use DISTILLED WATER (and not the crappy ones))

I think the power supply is great. Tagan is eyual to Enermax supplies. Except not many

people now about it because is german company. And i think the 480W is enough. My config

is:
MB= Abit KV8Pro 3rd Eye
CPU=AMD64 3000+ (S754)
COOLER= BOX [10]
RAM=2x

Geil Value 512MB PC3200
GFX= Sapphire Radeon 9800SE@98900Pro (Softmod)
GFX COOLER=

Zalman ZM80D-HP + ZM-OP1
HDD= Seagate 120GB ATA100 8mb Cache
CASE=Antec PlusView

1000AMG
POWER=Antec True Power 430W
CASEFAN= 4x YS Tech 80mm
FANCONTROL=ZAKMAN

ZM-MFC1

All fans run on minimum and the temp never excedes 45°C. I have 2 optical

drives and one more disk will come in a few days. And I still have more power than I need.

So I would say 550W is a waste of money. The PC would also run on a good 350W supply.

Look at the link! I hope u'll see what I want to say. Procesor takes around 90W and

6600GT takes around 50W. So two take 100W. That all takeslet's say 200W. If u have a good

400W supply you have 200W to play with. And i don't think u will spend so much power

BTW I'll rather buy one x800 or x850 and it's a lot better than 2 6600GT. Or if u

insist on nVidia than take 6800GT. U will get better performance and less heat. And you can

buy a cheaper board because u don't need

SLI.

Power consumption test!