gaming computer opinions

[Ronnie]

ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
ATI Radeon X1800 Crossfire Edition
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB
Logitech X-530 5.1 Speaker - Retail
LITE-ON Black IDE DVD Burner
Rosewill Silver/Black Wired Keyboard
Xoxide X-Fireball PC Case
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (4 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W Power Supply
Creative Black Fatal1ty 1010 Mouse

the total is about 1500 this will be pretty much my ultimate gaming comuter i can afford. does anyone have any comments or suggestions on any of the parts?

 

[Ronnie]

i could really use your guys help this is going to be my first self built computer and i want to make sure i have everything set

 

[Yolkz]

Links to the products would be nice.

 

[Ronnie]

http://www.xoxide.com/xwu.html
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145450
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121118
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16826158016
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131004
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=321345

 

[Green Radience]

ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
ATI Radeon X1800 Crossfire Edition
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB
Logitech X-530 5.1 Speaker - Retail
LITE-ON Black IDE DVD Burner
Rosewill Silver/Black Wired Keyboard
Xoxide X-Fireball PC Case
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (4 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W Power Supply
Creative Black Fatal1ty 1010 Mouse

the total is about 1500 this will be pretty much my ultimate gaming comuter i can afford. does anyone have any comments or suggestions on any of the parts?

I was going to give you suggestions, but when I saw the $1500 total, I'm just going to design you the PC. There is so much wrong with your "ultimate gaming computer."

Note: This is about as good as it gets. The ONLY way that this can be improved upon is by upgrading the videocard, for which you'll need to cut corners, a lot, elsewhere.

Case – Thermaltake Tsunami - $109.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133132

Processor – AMD Opteron 165 Denmark - $325.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103588

Motherboard – MSI K8N Diamond Plus - $195.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130037

Memory – G.Skill Extreme Series DDR500 - $157.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231021

Hard Drive(s) – 250GB Seagate Barracuda SATA150 - $86.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

Videocard – BFG GeForce 7900GT PCI-E - $329.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143048

Soundcard – Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic - $122.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102188

Power Supply – Antec TruePower 2.0 550W - $100.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103932

Optical Drive(s) – LG Black CD/DVD Burner - $38.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827136063

Floppy Drive – Samsung Black Floppy - $7.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103203

CPU Cooling – Zalman 9500 HSF - $64.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118223

Total – $1532.

 

[slick_tech15]

Wow, that rig Greenradiance built you is far better than the one you made. Except, I would get the DFI Ultra-D motherboard because it OC's very well and is way cheaper:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152
You could OC the **** out of that computer.
500th post!!!!!

 

[Ronnie]

thanks for the help you guys i really appreciat it, i was looking at g4tv's ugm and they mentioned something about 4X512 mb ram is better then 4X1gb ram whys this?

 

[Ronnie]

also ive always been told that dual core wasnt so good for gaming

 

[Lord AnthraX]

first of all 2 GB is all you will need. 4 GB actually slows your computer down at times..too much memory for XP to handle.

Dual core is the future...its a good investment

 

[Ronnie]

ok, but that motherboard doesnt suport opteron?