Rate my new pc

Blundellryan

Hi to everyone i am new to these forums and i just want to see what you guys think of my new computer

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.4GHz Socket 939, 2MB, BOXED w/fan

PSU
FSP Epsilon 700 FX700-GLN - power supply - 700 Watt

CASE
Thermaltake Tai Chi VB5001SNA - tower - extended ATX with liquid cooling

GPU
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XTX

MOTHERBOARD
Sapphire PURE Crossfire PC-A9RD580 - mainboard - ATX - CrossFire Xpress

HDD
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

MEMORY
Corsair XMS memory - 2 GB ( 2 x 1 GB ) - DIMM 184-PIN - DDR

MONITOR
BenQ FP93GX - flat panel display - 19" 2ms

BadCharlie

Nice but i dont know much about the PSU your getting.

8T8

The PSU is quite a bit overkill unless your planning a dual GPU setup (even that) but there is nothing wrong with it per say.

A good quality 450W PSU would power the system perfectly fine with room for expansion anything out side of dual GPU's that is.

Laguna

Admirable, I love Crossfire boards myself. PSU isn't as overkill as previously suggested as I assume in the future you'll have dual GPU's. Great. Nice. Wonderful.

christophicus

Nice setup ,very nice indeed. Those crossfire boards with the new north briges are supposed to be very good overclockers the are very raeirly the limitign factors in an overclock!! Seeing as you are spending so much you mught want to try and get a 20" moniter as its native resolution will be 1600,1200 whereas the 19"'s native resolution will be lower (the same as a 17" i just cant remember what that resolution is at the momen.

Sir Random

Very nice rig!

I'm way overdue an upgrade myself, and there's some really tempting price cuts on X1900XT's and 7900GTX's at overclockers.co.uk at the moment, but I'm hanging on for conroe and DX10 .
I'm still on AGP so an upgrade means the works, otherwise I'd grab an X1900XT now.

I have the cash for full upgrade now, and it's really hard to hold back when I see specs like yours


must wait for conroe... must wait for conroe... must wait for conroe... must wait for conroe...

christophicus

^^^You think you need an upgrade now?? you system is amazing!!!

Sir Random

The newest part of my rig is the 6800U, which is now 2 yrs old .

awhir

hey try the dfi crossfire board on overclockers.co.uk its ment to be the best.

christophicus

Does that have the RD580 northbrige?? I know there was an old version that didnt have the RD northbrige which would not be as good as the board you have specified. I think the saphire boards usually have decent BIOS options anyway.

Sir random your system is still amaizing and would easily play any of todays games!!

Look in my sig to see a pc that needs an upgrade!!!

conzy

Sir Random wrote:

The newest part of my rig is the 6800U, which is now 2 yrs old .

Ahhh, It seems like only yesterday the old 6800ultra was the card to have.......:D

But Wow it must have been some card 2 years ago, 16 pixel pipelines and 256mb of Gddr3 at 1ghz:eek:

Its holding up fairly well and is still a very decent card:)

And the DFI board that Chris is talking about is the DFI CFX3200-DR, I know a guy on forums.amd.com with a 148 at 2.9ghz, so it overclocks just as well if not better than the nforce4 ultra based boards....

Karoma

Could be bigger. Could be better.