is this overkill or not for gaming?

simonp1

i have a case and monitor and the rest but this is an order i put in at komplett,

18737 Corsair Value S. PC3200 DDR-DIMM 1024MB
- Kit w/two matched Value Select 512MB
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 111.01 111.01

301418 Fortron/Source Powersupply ATX 400W rev2
- 120mm, SATA Special Edition, 24pin
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 65 65

306332 ATX Power Cable from
- 24-pin PSU to 20-pin mainboard
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 5 5

122429 Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA
- 8MB 10000RPM
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 179 179

306372 Sapphire Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3
- PCI-Express,Tv-Out, DVI-I, Full-Retail
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 315 315

309861 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket
- 939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan
- Surcharges 0 per item will be added. 1 560 560

307143 Abit Fatal1ty AN8, nForce4 Ultra, Socket
- -939,ATX,S-ATA,GbLAN,Firewire,PCI-Ex16
- Surcharges 0 per ite

jman0

No, not with a 400W power supply.

Ciaran500

If its mainly for game you would be better off sticking with a single core CPU and spending the money on a better craphics card.

Sebzy

Yea you could do so much better with one of these

Termaltake Silent Purepower 680W Powersupply, 20/24pin

And how about

Dual
Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 8MB 10000RPM
Setup as Raid 0 (Striped)


Toooooooo much POWER

PS: the GPU rocks Have one myself

Seb.

Ciaran500

No need for 680W of power and a single raptor is fast (and expensive) enough.

simonp1

Too late to change already for shipping, hope all goes well when putting it together though, only second build to date.

simon

Sebzy

Ok a single hdd would get you by but IMO the exter kick shines through in todays stroage hungry games

Battlefield 2 = 1.2GB resources
HL2 = 1.1GB

etc....
I got 2x WD-160GB 7.2K drives raid 0 and I will never go back

oh yea the PSU would be overkill but on the other hand very quiet.


seb.

DemonOfTheFall

Sebzy, have you ever read a review of a thermaltake power supply ?

The fortron 400w would be faaaaar better than the thermaltake 680w. It probably has about 200 amps on 3v rail and then 7 amps on the 12v to make up that 680w, lol. never ever ever ever ever ever buy a thermaltake psu.

juliuspret

I have a Fortron 400w with the 12cm fan.

Honestly though there were 600w PSU's going for less, but I picked a quality 400w product as I didnt want to corrupt my hard drive data as it is far more important to me than saving €20 on a sh!tty PSU.

The Real B-man

Ciaran500 wrote:

If its mainly for game you would be better off sticking with a single core CPU and spending the money on a better craphics card.

:eek: the x800xl is a great ffs

Ciaran500

Never said there was anything wrong with it, but you would get better game performance from a lesser CPU and a better gfx card.