Compatibility for new computer

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youngObi

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I have everything picked out for a new computer my brother is going to build for me, but I just wanted to check and make sure all of these parts would work with eachother. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Case - Rosewill R604TBLK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX12V 400W with P4 support, 20-pin Main connector Power Supply - Retail

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3700BNBOX - Retail

Motherboard - ASUS A8N5X ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

RAM - (2) CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS1GB400C3 - Retail

Video Card - ASUS EAX1300PRO/TD/256M Radeon X1300PRO 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Retail

Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM

CD/DVD Burner - NEC Black IDE/ATAPI 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Model ND-3550A - OEM

Thermal Compound - Artic Silver 5 3.5g Syringe - OEM

Thanks the help!
 
Sounds alright to me, Ifs you'r into overclocking I think you should buy a better cooler, do you have one?, I have a Evo33 which is pretty good, a Zalman Aero Flower would be better though! does the job VERY well:)
 
I don't know whether I want to overclock because I would be starting from scratch since I've never done it.

Are they any tutorials to help you start?
 
youngObi said:
I don't know whether I want to overclock because I would be starting from scratch since I've never done it.

Are they any tutorials to help you start?
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The OC101 on this site is a great start
 
Few comments:

Go SATA hard drive --- theyre much cheaper now, especially online

Go 10,000 rpm hdd


Other than that, looks pretty hot
 
youngObi said:
Thanks for the help, but another question...Why go SATA for the hard drive?
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Faster. lol, IDE is much slower than a SATA drive. If you don't want to spend the money an IDE drive will do you just fine.
 
Case - Rosewill R604TBLK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX12V 400W with P4 support, 20-pin Main connector Power Supply - Retail
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You may need/want a 20->24p adaptor for that

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Budget and intent?

ata150 instead of ata133
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<rhetorical>so?</rhetorical>

IDE is much slower than a SATA drive.
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it is? I'm sure even power users would be hard pressed to identify which machine is running with a whopping 2-5MB/s deficit.
 
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