[Vile]

First off I want to say how happy I am that I found this website. Wish I would have found it sooner. Very new to this so I apologize for the randomness of this "build".

So this is my first build. It didn't start as a build at first, just thought I had to switch the power supply. After going and getting a new PS I found out that my motherboard was fried. So I bought a new motherboard off of Newegg along with a new CPU and RAM as I figured that the old stuff I had would no longer work (this being an 'upgrade' from a Dell I purchased in 2001-02. So everything arrives and I find out that my motherboard won't fit in to my case due to a metal divider F'ing it up. So I hop back on Newegg and purchase a case and, what the hell, I'll get a new graphics card too since I'm not sure if my old 9600gt could possibly be fried as well. Oh, I snagged a new HD as well.

So now I'm sitting here with half of my stuff. My case, hd and graphics card should show up on Saturday and I shall commence the build. I plan on starting with Win XP and upgrading to Win7. I also plan/hope to use my old dvd drives as they didn't have any issues that I knew of. One note on the HD...I pray that I will be able to somehow get the data off of my old HD. It has 10 years of music on it that I never backed up. Yes it was stupid as hell but I learned my lesson...Big Time.

So enough about my stupidity. I'll show you what I got. I would greatly appreciate any feedback from you all. Oh, and I'm mostly an MMO person; WAR, DDO, thinking about RIFTS.

**Disclaimer** As I found this site after the fact there aren't any of the recommended hardware in this build.

Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811147153

Mother Board: BIOSTAR TA870U3+ AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813138303

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103871

RAM: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231225

HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136795

Graphics: HIS H467QR1GH Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814161315

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 W0388RU 600W ATX 12V v2.2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

Gosh, I feel like I just went to confession. Well, there it is all. Thoughts?

Vile

 

[Tumbleweed36]

None of your links work for me??

 

[Vile]

Sorry about that. Gonna repost. Thank you for your reply though.

Case: Newegg.com - Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, option Fans-2x Side 120mm Fan

Motherboard: Newegg.com - BIOSTAR TA870U3+ AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

CPU: Newegg.com - AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX

RAM: Newegg.com - G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ

HD: Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Graphics: Newegg.com - HIS H467QR1GH Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

PSU: Newegg.com - Thermaltake TR2 W0388RU 600W ATX 12V v2.2 Power Supply

 

[linderman]

the power supply you have choosen is a rather mediocre unit / while thermaltake does make high end units like the Toughpower the linked one is a far cry from that!

biostar IMHO is like a 4th tier motherboard manuf I think you would do much better with a gigabyte or asus board

your links are for a tri-channel memory kit (as used by the intel i7 1366 socket) and your linked board uses dual memory kit / if you dont install memory in matched pairs your system will run the memory in single channel mode instead of dual channel which will result in a noticible performance loss

if you are a serious gamer your might end up disappointed with the 4670 is rather weak for a serious gamer / although it will satisfy some less demanding users if game settings are set low and the power hog features are disabled

http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...evised-2011-and-updated-regularly-448272.html

 

[Tyree]

Look over our suggested build list as suggested by linderman. They all use top quality parts that we know to be compatible.

 

[hhnq04]

Another nod for linderman's suggestions.