building new pc. are these parts a good choice?

**Zink560** · 04-10-2005,08:16 PM

my birthday is coming up in 4 days and i can get half of these for free. will all these parts work well together? I mainly want to know if any parts are incompatible with each other and if they are a good choice. does the mobo fit in the case? dose the motherboard work with all the other parts alright? i dont know all that much about pcs so please give me your opinion. i also would of chose a slightly nicer motherboard, but its important that it doesnt have SATA since i dont want to replace my current hardrives or dvd burner/cd burner

thanks!!

-Mark

parts list
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1) CASE: $190
Lian-Li Silver ATX Mid Tower Case, Model "PC-V1000" -RETAIL

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...112-051&depa=1

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20...itower-33.html

2) POWER SUPPLY: $55
Thermaltake W0014RU Silent Purepower 480W with Black housing - Xaser
Edition ATX 2-Fan Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...153-008&depa=0

3) MOTHERBOARD: $59
ASUS "P4S800" SiS648FX Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU
-RETAIL

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...131-462&DEPA=0

4) RAM: $86.00 (x2)
Corsair Value Select (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 512MBx2 DDR PC-3200 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...145-440&DEPA=0

5) PROC: $185
Intel Pentium 4/ 3.0E GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, Hyper Threading
Technology - Retail -$185

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...116-171&depa=0

what i already own and plan on using in the system:

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb graphics card

40GB Maxtor HD 7200 rpm ata100

200GB Maxtor HD 7200 rpm ata133

8x DVD Burner NEC 2510a

Firewire card

edit: some of the links didnt work that well

**Zink560** · 04-10-2005,09:28 PM

i wanna order these now.. does anyone here think it'll go nicely together? or is something incompatible somewhere

**deftonesmx17** · 04-10-2005,09:33 PM

eh, im an AMD guy

**Zink560** · 04-10-2005,09:43 PM

yeah i hav amd in my current pc and i am pleased with it, but i jus want to try something different since half of my friends use intel and like it. as far as you can tell, would all the parts be ok? im afraid of ordering all this then finding out the ram is incompatible, or some other thing like that

**Toma** · 04-10-2005,10:26 PM

Looks good to me, but if I were getting an Intel rig, I'd get a motherboard with an Intel chipset. However, you seem to have a budget requirement and I don't think you can do any better for 59.

**Zink560** · 04-10-2005,10:33 PM

id get a better motherboard but they all have sata now and i dont want to replace my dvd drive/cd burner and my 2 hardrives.. already ordered it i'll see how it turns out.

btw, anyone here have a bank of america card and know where the cvv2 number is?

**thetieger** · 04-10-2005,11:06 PM

I know on my card it's on the back, the last 3 digits.

-Thetieger

**agee** · 04-10-2005,11:48 PM

MOBO with SATA also comes with IDE connector, dont' they???...I have sata hDD and IDE hdd on my PC....you should get a Mobo with sata support because eventually, you'll wanna go for a faster transfer speed....soon sata HDD will be cheap and you will be force to get a sata add-on card...

**Toma** · 04-11-2005,12:00 AM

Most mobos with SATA usually have IDE slots. I wouldn't worry about SATA taking over yet, there's still a large user base for IDE.

**thetieger** · 04-11-2005,02:22 AM

also try pricewatch.com they have some sweet deals on mobo/CPU combos

and just about everythingelse too!

-Thetieger

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