New PC - Limited knowledge
Hello everyone!
I've been thinking about getting a new PC for some months now, my current one is 3 years old and the motherboard doesn't support PCI express, thus my current Raedon 9700 simply doesn't do games justice. So while my hyperthreaded Pentium 4 3Ghz CPU isn't really all the bad still, i thought i might as well update the entire package if i'm getting a new mother board and graphics card.
I've been reading various articles but my hardware knowledge isn't all that great, notably when it comes to the reputation of brand names and all those funny abbreviations/letters/numbers that are added onto the end of the equipment. Basically, if anyone has a thoughts about the below kit then could you let me know before i spend my hard earned cash. Even if this means telling me to hold off for 1 more month because some new key piece of kit is going to be released which will mean it just makes sense to hold off for that little bit longer (however hard that may be!).
Case:
Antec Performance One P180 Miditower
Power Supply:
Seasonic S12 Powersupply 600W, 120mm Fan
Motherboard:
Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Socket -939, Super Cooling Pipe
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+, 2.4GHz, 512kb
Graphics Card:
Radeon X1900XT 512mb GDDR3
Memory:
Corsair Twinx2048-3200C2 DDR-DIMM, 2048MB w/two matched CMX1024-3200C2 DIMMs
Hard Disk:
Samsung SpinPoint P120 250GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
Soundcard:
Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS PCI, 64mb, EAX Advanced HD 5.0
Oh, and also, any advice particularly on 'future proofing' the motherboard? Ideally i want to upgrade in the future, not start all over again (hence going for a high end system now). With the move to duel core processing/64bit information flow i'm keen to make sure that future AMD chips will work in the motherboard. As far as i know the 939 configuration should be ok for the next wave of AMD CPUs, but just want to make sure i get the best 939 board possible (supporting all those funny extra features which i'll be attempting to learn about over the next 48hours).
Cheers;
Rob