My plan for a gaming rig is really coming together, but I'm still trying to pick out a motherboard. I want a very stable and dependable Socket 939. I don't see myself using SLi in the near future, but I might take it into consideration. A firewire ports would be nice. I'v listed the rest of the parts I plan to order for you to critique as well.
How's this look? Criticism accepted and encouraged!
EDIT: URLs fixed..?
- Mobo: Help, please.
- PSU
(A good PSU means less chance of horrible death for the rig.) - Case
(Kind of hesitant on this one. No case has really caught my eye in a big way yet, anyways. Completely open to suggestions here. I'd like a silver one, personally. Gunmetal would be incredibly 1337, but there probably aren't any easily available.) - CPU
(Planning to overclock to 2.2-2.4 Ghz. A new heatsink/fan combo would probably be necessary, so I could use some advice there.) - RAM
(Second stick of this same stuff when I need/feel like an upgrade.) - HDD
(Plus cables if mobo doesn't include any. Don't need anything fancy here, just a fair amount of space for games, movies and music. A part of me wants RAID 0+1, but then I realize how much time, effort and money that would take.) - Video Card
(If anyone really thinks I should go with ATI, I'd be fine with an ATI card similar in price and performance.)
OS: I'm going to get XP Pro, but I heard the X64 Edition has some driver issues so I don't know whether to get that one or the normal version. - Optical Drives: I don't need to burn DVDs right off the bat, so a DVD/CD-RW drive my family has sitting around will do.
- Keyboard and Mouse: Meh. I'll pick something out when I acutally order the computer.
- Monitor: Any 8ms LCD with DVI connection, perferably silver. Again, I'll pick this out closer to the actual time I order.
How's this look? Criticism accepted and encouraged!
EDIT: URLs fixed..?
