Sanity Check

[EvilMunky]

Hey all,

Im just advising my mate on an upgrade / new system and wanted to run by you guys for a sanity check and any advice / alternatives etc.

By alternatives i dont mean "buy intel or buy ATI" i mean not that memory, this one - its better etc.

Motherboard - GA-K8NXP-SLI.

CPU - AMD Athlon64 3200

Graphics Card - 256Mb MSI PCI-E GF6800GTO DDR3 Dual DVI

Memory - 1 Gb (2 x 512 Mb) Corsair TwinX, DDR, PC3200C2PT, Cas 2

DVDRW - AOpen DVRW16X-DL 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Chameleon (Sil/Blk/Ivory) DVD±RW, Retail

Floppy Cable - CAB-FLOP-R Round Floppy Drive Cable
HDD Cable (not sata) - CAB-IDE-U66-70-R 90CM ROUND IDE ATA 100/133 CABLE x 2

CPU Fan - Coolermaster Hyper48

This stuff is going in a Thermaltake Shark Case and the PSU is already sorted.

So if there is anything i have forgotten please tell me, and any other info.

Cheers guys, much appreciated

[Steve]

Somewhere to store the Operating System would be nice.

[Thorsson]

I'm presuming he's got that already.

As to makes: The Gigabyte has some questions against it, and I'm not sure why AOpen rather than the NEC 3520. Also why spend money on floppy cables these days?

[-mb-]

Yeah, don't get AOpen. They're just crap.
I've had 1x AOpen modem, 1x AOpen CD-ROM and 1x AOpen CD-RW. All swiftly broke.

LiteON are great value.

Otherwise sounds good.

[EvilMunky]

lol ok yeah hes already got the hard drives - forgot to mention that.

As for Aopen - i never had any probs - but will take your advice and let him know

Thanks