First New Build...

Sacrinyellow5 · 11-14-2006, 11:44 PM

I have not listed some materials, because I already own them: Screen, Storage HD's DVD-R and some other misc stuff, which will be used to complete the build.

Case - Antec 900
Power Supply - Antec NeoHE 500 Watt
Processor - 2.13 Core 2 Duo
Motherboard - Asus ATX Socket LGA775
RAM - PNY 2 GB PC2-5300 667Mhz DDR2 Mem Kit
HD OS - Western Digital 250 GB 7200 SATA
Graphics Card - Norwood Micro GeForce 6600 PCI Express 256 DDR
Audio - Still Deciding - Probably a cheap creative card.

This is my build and I was just wondering how it will rank. I'm going to be using it for some gaming and graphic design work. I'm pretty much set on what I have listed, because I can get the materials locally and with good rebates. It will be a little over a grand for all of it. Any suggestions would be great and do you think I should wait till after Thanksgiving? Most of the parts will be bought locally, so I'm not sure if they will be featured in Thanksgiving sales or not?
Thanks for looking,

PC eye · 11-15-2006, 12:03 AM

PNY memory on an Asus board?

You should have gone with Kingston, Corsair, or Mushkin value ram at least. The Antec case was seen here after having boght another.

The rest looks good for all general purposes.

Burgerbob · 11-15-2006, 12:07 AM

My PNY value ram worked just fine in the M2N-E.

Sacrinyellow5 · 11-15-2006, 12:16 AM

Yeah, I wasnt sure on the PNY ram, but I thought for the price it couldnt be to bad... I guess well see what happens...

PC eye · 11-15-2006, 04:31 AM

When I ran it several years ago on the older systems like a 486 upto a AMD 500mhz K5 Soyo board followed by a Shuttle board with 768mb of PC133 at about 800mhz I wasn't noticing any problems. The older dos and 95-98 games saw memory errors come up alot however. PNY will never be a good performance brand. If you are not planning to oc then you should be able to get by for the basics.

To no surprise the 2gb of Kingston Value Ram perform just as well as the matched pair of 512mb Corsair xms series memory but with the increase smoothing things out even further. But when you are on a budget you have to go with the optrions you have there. I had to build this on a moments notice without seeing a dual cored cpu or better video card. But the card still performs well for what is needed here.

11-14-2006, 11:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sacrinyellow5 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis Posts: 918	First New Build... I have not listed some materials, because I already own them: Screen, Storage HD's DVD-R and some other misc stuff, which will be used to complete the build. Case - Antec 900 Power Supply - Antec NeoHE 500 Watt Processor - 2.13 Core 2 Duo Motherboard - Asus ATX Socket LGA775 RAM - PNY 2 GB PC2-5300 667Mhz DDR2 Mem Kit HD OS - Western Digital 250 GB 7200 SATA Graphics Card - Norwood Micro GeForce 6600 PCI Express 256 DDR Audio - Still Deciding - Probably a cheap creative card. This is my build and I was just wondering how it will rank. I'm going to be using it for some gaming and graphic design work. I'm pretty much set on what I have listed, because I can get the materials locally and with good rebates. It will be a little over a grand for all of it. Any suggestions would be great and do you think I should wait till after Thanksgiving? Most of the parts will be bought locally, so I'm not sure if they will be featured in Thanksgiving sales or not? Thanks for looking, __________________ Harvey Pekar "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" ------------------------------------------------- -Tower /AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400+ (2.3Ghz) 3 GB DDR2/Geforce 8600GT(SSC)/160 SATA HD/DVD-RW/Vista Home -Laptop /Core 2 Duo T6460 (1.66Ghz)/2 GB DDR2/Intel GMA X3100/250 SATA HD/Vista Premium -Server /P4 2.26 Ghz/1 GB Ram/GeForce FX 5200/80 & 250GB HDx2/DVD-RW/XP -MAC G4(Quick Silver)/768 Mb Rams/40 GB & 2x120GB HD/DVD-RW/OSX Go Cards!

11-15-2006, 12:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
Burgerbob Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Private Island Age: 18 Posts: 2,515	My PNY value ram worked just fine in the M2N-E. __________________ MY Computer AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Black Edition, Zalman 9700 4096Mb Patriot Viper, ASUS M3N78 Pro 750GB Seagate HDD, eVGA GeForce 8800GT w/Akimbo Antec Three Hundred Logitech MX Revolution, UltraX Media Hanns-G 19in 5ms EEEPC 4G, 1GB RAM, 4GB SD card

11-15-2006, 12:16 AM	#4 (permalink)
Sacrinyellow5 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis Posts: 918	Yeah, I wasnt sure on the PNY ram, but I thought for the price it couldnt be to bad... I guess well see what happens... __________________ Harvey Pekar "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" ------------------------------------------------- -Tower /AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400+ (2.3Ghz) 3 GB DDR2/Geforce 8600GT(SSC)/160 SATA HD/DVD-RW/Vista Home -Laptop /Core 2 Duo T6460 (1.66Ghz)/2 GB DDR2/Intel GMA X3100/250 SATA HD/Vista Premium -Server /P4 2.26 Ghz/1 GB Ram/GeForce FX 5200/80 & 250GB HDx2/DVD-RW/XP -MAC G4(Quick Silver)/768 Mb Rams/40 GB & 2x120GB HD/DVD-RW/OSX Go Cards!

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11-15-2006, 12:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	PNY memory on an Asus board? You should have gone with Kingston, Corsair, or Mushkin value ram at least. The Antec case was seen here after having boght another. The rest looks good for all general purposes.

11-15-2006, 04:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,730	When I ran it several years ago on the older systems like a 486 upto a AMD 500mhz K5 Soyo board followed by a Shuttle board with 768mb of PC133 at about 800mhz I wasn't noticing any problems. The older dos and 95-98 games saw memory errors come up alot however. PNY will never be a good performance brand. If you are not planning to oc then you should be able to get by for the basics. To no surprise the 2gb of Kingston Value Ram perform just as well as the matched pair of 512mb Corsair xms series memory but with the increase smoothing things out even further. But when you are on a budget you have to go with the optrions you have there. I had to build this on a moments notice without seeing a dual cored cpu or better video card. But the card still performs well for what is needed here.