I’m planning out a build for a home computer. I’ve never built one from scratch, so I wanted to get some feedback about my choices and see of there’s anything that looks problematic. Its going to be used for a lot of music/video, although not editing, some gaming but not a ton, and possibly will get a TV tuner added at a later date and use the computer as a Tivo. I’m still split on OS, I will either be running WinXP SP2, or going with a linux build like redhat or Ubuntu or something. Still researching that. Anyway, here’s the component list, if anyone has ideas or suggestions or warnings, I would appreciate it.
Case – Antec Performance 1 P180B
Mobo – ECS GeForce6100S (thought about upgrading this and going with the Asus M2N32 nForce 590, but not sure if the extra money is worth it yet. comments on this appreciated.)
Processor – AMD Athlon 64 X32 3800+, or 4600+
Power supply – Antec Earthwatts EA500, 500w
RAM – OCZ Crossfire 2x 1GB, DDR2 800, PC2 6 400
HDD – Seagate Barracuda 7200, 320GB SATA
Multimedia drives – Lite-On DVD+-R 20x burner
(will probably add a cd burner too)
Sound card – Sound Blaster X-Fi
Vid card – GeForce 7600GS
Misc – Koutech USB card, Netgear ethernet card
So, any tips or advice greatly appreciated.
