Is this a good Gaming PC?

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neio

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CPU
ADAX2-38BX939 AMD® Athlon™ 64-X2 3800+ SOCKET 939 Dual Core 64-Bit With HyperTransport Technology, L1 128K, L2 2x512K Cache - Boxed

CPU Cooler
HYPER48 Cooler Master™ Hype48 Cooler - 4 Way Heatpipe Solid Copper Universal Cooler For Intel P4 (478 / 775) & AMD K8 (754 / 939) - High Performance

Ram
C512XMS533 DDR2-533 Corsair® 512MB XMS2 Series Extreme Desktop DDR2-533 Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 3-3-3-8, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty
C512XMS533 DDR2-533 Corsair® 512MB XMS2 Series Extreme Desktop DDR2-533 Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 3-3-3-8, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty

Motherboard
K8NP-SLI DUAL DDR GIGABYTE® nForce4 SLI Socket 939 AMD K8 FSB1000 Discrete - 2x PCI-Express x16, Realtek 8 Channel Audio, Onboard Gigabit LAN, IEEE1394b 4x DDR400 (Dual Channel), 4x SATA (SATAII Ready) + nVRaid + 2x ATA133, 2 x PCI, 2 x PCI-E 1x, 10 x USB 2.0 (6 By Cable), Dual BIOS, ATX


Graphics card
NX78T256D-ZK Gigabyte® nVidia® GeForce 7800GT, 256MB 256Bit, Dual DVI + HDTV , DirectX 9 + OpenGL, Dual RAMDACs, Zalman Cooler, SLI

Power Supply unit - Chassis Combo
RS-CM450W Cooler Master™ Real Power 450W PSU w/ Analogue Power Usage Display for 3.5" Bay (BLUE LED) for Coolermaster™ Gaming Chassis
 
Don't know, never tried DDR2 on a DDR mobo

/Edit : Apparently not

From the Crucial site :

To use DDR2 memory, your system motherboard must have 240-pin DIMM slots and a DDR2-enabled chipset. A DDR2 SDRAM DIMM will not fit into a standard SDRAM DIMM socket or a DDR DIMM socket.
 
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well only the card is better than myne

Amd 4000 64bit
160gig sata HD
Radeon x800xt plat 256mb screen card
ECS kv2 extreme MB pro
19" lcd screen
Logitech g5 mouse wif keyboard
2gig ram

Current score on 3d mark 05" is 6179
 
So
Ram
C512XMSX DDR400 Corsair® 512MB XMS Series Extreme Desktop DDR Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 2-3-3-6, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty

Would be better?
 
neio said:
So
Ram
C512XMSX DDR400 Corsair® 512MB XMS Series Extreme Desktop DDR Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 2-3-3-6, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty

Would be better?
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well , at least it would fit :D IMO you might even go less expensive if you don't plan on overclocking
 
So 2 of these?

VS1GB400C3 C1GB400 Corsair® ValueSelect™ Series 1GB DDR400 184-Pin Desktop Memory: 6-Layer PC Board, Retail Packaging

Would also do the trick?
 
neio said:
So
Ram
C512XMSX DDR400 Corsair® 512MB XMS Series Extreme Desktop DDR Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 2-3-3-6, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty

Would be better?
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Yep, some time this year AMD is going to launch the M2 Socket, and the M2 CPUs will support DDR2 (cos on AMD's the memory controller is on the chip, not the chip set)

BTW, I would rather go for a single core 4000+, or if you have to go duel core, get at least the 4200+, because the 3800+ X2 is basicaly just two 3200+ cores, so in single threaded apps, it wont be that fast.
 
neio said:
CPU
ADAX2-38BX939 AMD® Athlon™ 64-X2 3800+ SOCKET 939 Dual Core 64-Bit With HyperTransport Technology, L1 128K, L2 2x512K Cache - Boxed

I would rather go for a 4400+ the preformance is much better than from the 3800+

CPU Cooler
HYPER48 Cooler Master™ Hype48 Cooler - 4 Way Heatpipe Solid Copper Universal Cooler For Intel P4 (478 / 775) & AMD K8 (754 / 939) - High Performance

NOT Needed unless your going to do some over clocking, but not on that mainboard you have now

Ram
C512XMS533 DDR2-533 Corsair® 512MB XMS2 Series Extreme Desktop DDR2-533 Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 3-3-3-8, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty
C512XMS533 DDR2-533 Corsair® 512MB XMS2 Series Extreme Desktop DDR2-533 Memory: 6-Layer PCB, Heat Spreader, CL 3-3-3-8, Retail Packaging - Life Time Warranty
Good RAM, board you have now does not support 533 :(

Motherboard
K8NP-SLI DUAL DDR GIGABYTE® nForce4 SLI Socket 939 AMD K8 FSB1000 Discrete - 2x PCI-Express x16, Realtek 8 Channel Audio, Onboard Gigabit LAN, IEEE1394b 4x DDR400 (Dual Channel), 4x SATA (SATAII Ready) + nVRaid + 2x ATA133, 2 x PCI, 2 x PCI-E 1x, 10 x USB 2.0 (6 By Cable), Dual BIOS, ATX

Ok, board for gaming\ nice and stable - Dont try and over clock on it though

Graphics card
NX78T256D-ZK Gigabyte® nVidia® GeForce 7800GT, 256MB 256Bit, Dual DVI + HDTV , DirectX 9 + OpenGL, Dual RAMDACs, Zalman Cooler, SLI

Nice Card

Power Supply unit - Chassis Combo
RS-CM450W Cooler Master™ Real Power 450W PSU w/ Analogue Power Usage Display for 3.5" Bay (BLUE LED) for Coolermaster™ Gaming Chassis
Dont even think about it, its a **** PSU... No more to be said. Case is ok
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Pm me if you would like a better Quote.
 
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I agree with what person said. the 4400+ is much faster and as I am doing you can run it at 4800+ speeds at a fraction of the price. I have even had it up to 2.503Ghz but it wont go higher with my current cooling. 2.6Ghz is FX60 speed and that costs almost 3 times as much!!

Maybe look at the motherboard I have or the ASUS Nforce 4 SLI board.

The stock cooler on the X2's perform very well. As I said it will take it quite far above stock without any problems.

The Gfx card is fine. but new cards will be out soon as will the AMD socket M2 cpu's.

Maybe wait a couple of months, 2-3.
 
Basically the same PC i am geting just i am going for 2GB corsair value.
Also looking at x1800xt512 and X2 4400 depending on budget:d
 
Angellus said:
Maybe wait a couple of months, 2-3.
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you're right, It would be better to wait a few months seeing as the next AMD processor is coming out and the price will drop on the 4400 chip
 
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