My First home build

[Quakindude]

Also, I'd rather have an EVGA or XFX video card. Both companies allow you to overclock their cards and still be covered by warranty as well as change out the stock cooling solution for one of your choice. Of course, you don't HAVE to overclock or change out the stock cooler, but the option is there if you want to.

Also, both of those companies have some excellent customer service. I've not dealt with XFX personally, but I've read good things about them.

I have dealt with EVGA's customer service, forums and warranty and they are top notch.

Right now though, the Egg has the XFX 8800GT for $219 after rebate.

I'd be hard pressed to recommend a 500W PSU by anyone at this point. The 500W will certainly power your system, but you'll be very limited in future upgrades. I'd recommend a 550W minimum personally, and shoot for a quality 600W if I were buying today.

[oldman_gamer]

I wasnt going to say anything because im new at this,but I think as well as everyone else here will agree,your HDD is too small for your build.Seagate is outstanding IMO,however,like was told to me in a different post,go for the larger,500GB with 32MB cache.You wont need to add another or replace it for a long time.It's a quiet drive,super fast and will hold alot.I have it in my build and have no regrets.

[Resputan]

Originally Posted by oldman_gamer

I wasnt going to say anything because im new at this,but I think as well as everyone else here will agree,your HDD is too small for your build.Seagate is outstanding IMO,however,like was told to me in a different post,go for the larger,500GB with 32MB cache.You wont need to add another or replace it for a long time.It's a quiet drive,super fast and will hold alot.I have it in my build and have no regrets.

I have been living with an 80gb hard drive for two years or so now with a 120gb on a my downstairs computer as my backup data drive (networked of course). With this new rig 250gb will be more than enough for me plus I can put in the 80gb and 120gb for odds and ends backups and data.

Im making some finally adjustments and actually hope to place the order tonight. Ill post the new list here in probably a half hour I would -greatly- appreciate it if you guys could look over it and see if everything should fit together nicely or if ill have any problems.

[onebxr]

Man I wish I could get away with that, I have 2tb on my htpc and if I could figure out where to put another HDD in my case I would increase that space to put more movies on.
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[Resputan]

Ok here is my final list, if you see anything that wont work with another item on the list please let me know but I think everything should be good. The only thing I took off was the artic cooler 7. Ill buy that at a later time if I need to since I dont plan on overclocking at all for awhile since this system will be well over twice as fast as my current one.


Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6750 - Retail

RAIDMAX Volcano RX-630A ATX12V / EPS12V 630W Power Supply - Retail



MSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail

GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3P LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Dynamic Energy Saver Ultra Durable II Intel Motherboard - Retail

Sunbeam Transformer IC-TR-BA Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM



That all totals out to be $910 without shipping. Mail in rebates will get be $100 back so around $800 unshipped isnt bad at all for this sytem.

[Elysium]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

t might be cheap compared to what you crazy watercooling guys are used to spending!

No kidding!

The E6750 is a good CPU, but for the price you cannot beat the E8400. Also I'd recommend a better PSU. The Antec Sonata III case/PSU bundle is a great deal. While that Raidmax PSU may be rated at 630W, I doubt it can put out half that much in reality.

[Stormcrow]

Argh Raidmax, DANGER WILL ROBINSON!! The PSU is the ONE thing you don't want to skimp on, and I'd rather take a Rosewill over a Raidmax piece of crap. Decent cases, but avoid their PSUs if you value your expensive hardware.
This here is a much better quality unit with about the same MIR price, and you can be sure it can push somewhere close to the listed 600w: Newegg.com - OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS ATX12V / EPS12V 600W Power Supply 100 - 240 V CB, CE, CSA, UL, FCC - Retail

[Resputan]

Ok so I went ahead and pciked up these parts finally. The only thing I think I changed was the power supply to an OCZ 600w. I put it all together, booted it up and everything went fine. I installed windows and after the first restart I got the Disk Read error, Press ctrl+alt+del to restart error.

Is there some hardware incompatability im not seeing here? Everything should be good. It was late and i didnt have time to play with it and probably wont be home until sunday now just trying to gather some info so i have some stuff to try when I do get home.

The hdd is recognized as is everything else and the hdd is reading as 0 if I recall correctly and not 1. The hdd is sata.

[unknown555525]

The HDD should be reading as 0 if that's where you plugged it into.

Made shure it's configured to boot the HDD? If you only have one hard drive, make shure RAID settings are off. then re-install windows.

[onebxr]

did you change your Bios to read your Hard drive first? It and did you download the drivers for your board and the latest bios? I am betting on the bios error.
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