is this well balanced?

bebopin64

bebopin64

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how does this setup look? The video card is not changeable though because I already own it.

CPU: Pentium D 930 - $179
Motherboard: ECS 945PL - $66
RAM: (2x512MB) Corsair XMS2 240-pin ddr2 675 (compatable?) - $104
Case: Raidmax Sagitta w/ 450W PSU - $79
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 160GB Sata - $63
GPU: ATi X850XT PE 256MB - FREE!!!!
Total - $491

I'm not sure if the RAM is compatable but as far as I know about RAM and MOBOs (which is not much) they are. If anybody has suggestions for changes please take into account that I can only go a little bit over the price of these parts.
 
It looks compatible, but is there a reason you're going with DDR2-675 and not DDR2-667?

And that motherboard is decent, but there known for not having great overclocking abilities.
 
I don't have any idea on how to pick RAM and what is better so if you think a different RAM would be better I'd like to know. I'm not sure if I am going to want to overclock. How much faster will this non overclocked PD be than a non overclocked P4 3.0GHz?
 
if your not goin to be doing some HARDCORE multitasking your not gonna take advantage of a dual core and an AMD setup would be much better for gaming
 
ok ive revised it a little.

CPU: AMD 64 3800+ AM2
MOBO: ECS NFORCE4M-A (V1.1) Socket AM2
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 800

Hows this?
 
bebopin64 said:
ok ive revised it a little.

CPU: AMD 64 3800+ AM2
MOBO: ECS NFORCE4M-A (V1.1) Socket AM2
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 800

Hows this?
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Much better. But again you pick the cheap ECS motherboard.

To your previous question, the 3800+ would be much better in gaming then the PD 930.
 
fade2green514 said:
balanced for what? lol
what do you plan on doing with the thing?
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balanced as in no one part will bottleneck the entire system. eveything is about the same performance wise.
 
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