Need Professional Opinion

[crazybeans]

Hello fellow gurus,




I added this thread because I am planning on upgrading my computer and thought it would be nice to get some opinions and feedback on the parts and configuration I have chosen. The plan I have set out includes the following:

Motherboard: ASUS P4P800E

ATX form factor, Socket 478 (Pentium 4 up to 3.2Ghz w/ 800mhz FSB), Bus Speeds of 400/533/800mhz, PC2100/PC2700/PC3200 Dual DDR DIMM support (Up to 4GB), RAID 1, 1+0, 2, 4 SATA connections (150mbs bandwidth), two ATA 66/100 connections, Onboard NIC with 10/100/1000mbs Gigabit bandwidth, Hyper-Threading Technology compatable (Allows CPU to perform two tasks at a time seamlessly), 4x/8x AGP, 5 PCI slots, 1 onboard WiFi slot, USB 2.0 Specification w/ 8 ports, IEEE 1394 Specification (FireWire) w/ 2 ports, etc.

CPU:

Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 800mhz FSB with HT technology and 512kb L1 Cache

RAM:

2 Dual Configured sticks of PC3200 DDR to match the bandwidth of the FSB (2x3200=6400mbs) for best possible performance.

Video Card:

AGP eVGA nVidia GeForceFX 5700 LE with 256MB DDR RAM

Sound Card:

Sound Blaster Live! LS with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround, EAX Technology, 64 voice hardware, Hardware Acceleration of EAX games (takes the burden of sound processing from the CPU speeding gameplay and raising FPS), supports frequencies of 5kHz to 48kHz, 16-bit sound rendering/recording (2^16 = 65536 total settings for realisticness compared to 8-bit cards with only 256 possible configurations during recording/playback)

Storage:

120GB Maxtor 7200RPM (42mb/s Bandwidth), 2 Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM (2x42=84mb/s Bandwidth) configured using the RAID 0 specification. Striping the drives adds for double bandwidth at the cost of reliability (if one drive fails, all data is lost) <-- Still worth the bandwidth in my oppinion. These drives will be connected using ATA/100 specification (ATA/66 would work the same because real world hard drive speeds do not exceed this speed, that includes serial ATA or SATA drives, the fastest HDD I've seen ran at 10,000RPMs with a bandwidth of 50mbs).

Optical Drives:

(not significant enough to add specs)
DVD Burner
CD Burner

Power Source:

Ultra 400W ATX Power Supply with 120mm Cooling Fan

Case:

I also plan on using wireless networking on this computer using the WiFi slot on the motherboard for LAN parties. I think this computer is gonna smoke. Give me some feedback and your professional oppinions 8|

 

[beedubaya]

Great, but the GeForce FX 5700LE is starting to show its age. Get a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, and you'll be much happier. Everything else looks great and I love that case.

 

[crazybeans]

Thanks, the case rocks. There is no need for HDD cooling thanks to the monsterous fan on the front. Looks like a jet intake. I'm planning on purchasing a new vid card but not in the near future. I'm still in college and will be for another 6 years (going for Comp. Engineering). Budget is a bit tight, I'm hoping the syncronized processor, RAM and 2x speed HDD configuration will make up for the GPU. That should do until Doom 3 is released lol. BTW, your comp is tight, could you post a pic of the case?

 

[beedubaya]

Here is a picture. There are lights but they don't show because of the camera flash.

 

[crazybeans]

Nobody else has an opinion about this setup? Does anyone HAVE this setup?