Building my own computer...

[The_Doctor]

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Abit AN8 32X NF4 SLi Socket 939 2x PCI-E SLi / NF4 / Gb LAN / SATA(II) RAID / DUAL CH DDR / 7.1CH AUDIO / FIREWIRE / ATX MOTHERBOARD

Aspire Discovery Silver No psu 4 x 5.25" / 2 x 3.5" / 4x3.5 Standard ATX / Baby AT / Micro ATX Front Usb 2.0 and Firewire 2x

Samsung 16x DVD-ROM Drive BEIGE

AMD Athlon64 X2 4400 1MB

Mitsumi Floppy + Card Reader Beige

BFG GeForce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 256bit PCI-E, Dual DVI. TV-Out Mfr# BFGR79512GTXOCE

300GB Maxtor D/Max +10 SATA2 [16MB] 6V300F0

1GB PC3200 Elixir DDR SDRAM DDR 400 M2U1G64DS8HB1G-5T (X2)

19" Hanns-G HC194DP TFT - 8ms- DVI 3 Year Warranty

550W ATX Power Supply

Is there anything that I can improve?

[Beirut]

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Nice looking stuff. But isn't the ASUS K8-series MB the top of the line MB? You've got some beauty stuff in there and it deserves the best.

Also, and I'm biased, but the Viewsonic VX922 19" 2ms LCD screen is getting great reviews. I've had mine for a while now and it's fast. Haven't noticed any lag or ghosting regardless of how fast and heavy the action. Has a good warranty as well.

[orangat]

Get the Conroe 6300. Its faster and likely cheaper than the AMD 4400 even after the price cuts. In any case the bigger 1Mb cache is mostly a waste.

Get a better power supply like a Fortron source or Seasonic.
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=317630
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=314765

Get a pair of stereo speakers unless you need and already plan on arranging 7 speakers around your workspace.

Get a cheaper mb if you still intend on buying an AMD cpu. The features of the Abit an8 is wasted on your specs.

[Puzz3D]

I've been using a Plextor PX-716A DVD Drive for about a year, and it has worked flawlessly. That drive is old now, and has been replaced by the PX-760A. You can read a review here PX-760A review

[DukeofSerbia]

Will these components work together:


Aspire Discovery Silver No psu 4 x 5.25" / 2 x 3.5" / 4x3.5 Standard ATX / Baby AT / Micro ATX Front Usb 2.0 and Firewire 2x

Samsung 16x DVD-ROM Drive BEIGE

19" Hanns-G HC194DP TFT - 8ms- DVI 3 Year Warranty

550W ATX Power Supply

Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers

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Why you throw away your money on on hardware like this one? Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers Altec Lansing is better or even Logitech! Creative only have good sound cards for amateur usage.

Monitor is not good. Samsung is the best like SyncMaster BF940. http://www.samsung.com/Products/Moni...9HADKBEXAA.asp

For power supply and case Antec is one of the best. Chieftec is also very good (I have Chieftec lbx-01-01w 360W).

For DVD recorder buy Pioneer or NEC. They are the best (Pioneer use NEC chip).

[The_Doctor]

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

I will look into these things that have been mentioned.

[Puzz3D]

Well the speakers don't seem horrible, and I think Cambridge Soundworks makes some of the Creative Labs speaker systems. This is a review of the Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speakers. They seem ok for games and watching movies on your pc, but not that good for music. It is worth checking out what Altec Lansing has to offer. Speakers are something you should listen to before buying if possible.

Watch out for that onboard audio. Quite often they are cpu hogs because they don't have a very powerful hardward sound chip. I don't know if that's the case with that motherboard. Turtle Beach makes good quality soundcards, although it looks like their selection is limited to two cards right now, but one is a 7.1 card.

A 360W power supply may not be powerful enough for a typical computer system of today.

[The_Doctor]

I am going to change the speakers to normal simple things.

[orangat]

I am going to change the speakers to normal simple things.

Good idea.
Its pointless to have many small cheap and poor quality speakers instead of fewer and better quality units.