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Originally Posted by AeroSquid
Ok i'll grade your stuff but i'm brutally honest 
Case: cheapo and fugly to boot. CM Stacker >you
PSU: hope you at least got the SLI. I would have gone with the 600w
HSF: SI-120 is compatible with more mobo's
MOBO: ugh. The Asus A8n32-sli is the second best overclocking board after the DFI Ultra-D. That Epox is not even in the same category, a true budget board to the extreme. You will have problems with it.
CPU: That's a fine cpu, when i go dual core (after socket M2 next month) i'll probably replace my 148 with that one.
RAM: ram is fine if you're partial to Crucial. I prefer Geil but to each his own 
HD: WD just came out with Raptor X, a 150gb raptor (with a window in it lol)
storage drive is fine, Seagate is awesome.
Love that video card, good luck finding one.
The above is mostly my opinion, for what it's worth. |
Thanks for the reply and the time you took for your comments, some things I agree with, and some I do not. The moment of truth will come sometime in February when I can finally get the video card.
Case: agree, its a nice case, but I dont think its the best I could have gotten.
PSU: This PSU is supposed to be able to handle SLI, but I dont plan on using SLI. This could change in the future, I suppose.
Mobo: We part ways here, though Asus is a fine company. First, the Epox 9NPA is not really a "budget" board when looking at the price. You may not have particularly heard of
Epox yourself, but the
overclocking community certainly
has. I easily could have gotten the Asus board as well though, its definitely in the top-3 conversation with some people putting Asus or Epox #2. DFI may overclock the "best", but it rarely provides a stable overclock, in which case its useless. Dont remember why I ultimately went against Asus, probably a few complaints I read somewhere combined with the many people saying that Epox was one of the most stable of the overclockers, it was a close call.
RAM: You said its fine, but I have recently become extremely concerned with the Crucial Ballistix. The newest reviews indicate that the sticks I selected will run incredibly hot when overclocking, with stories of multiple RMA's being common. I plan on buying active cooling for my RAM before firing it up, because it apparently does provide some of the best 2GB overclocking around when it doesnt torch itself. If this memory does die, I'll probably go with someone else.
HD: Wow... I may upgrade sometime this summer.
Video Card: looking around, it appears I may need that luck! I'm still not in a hurry, if I can find one at a reasonable price mid-to-end of February, thats fine.