Buying a new computer

[Chewy]

my asus a8v northbridge fan is as quiet as it gets

[mill]

You think i should call them up now, and find out about the fan before they ship it? Well i just got of the phone with them and they said they did have a problem with the fans craping out on them within a couple months but they said they fixed the problem, time will tell.

[UncasMS]

that's exactly what i told you

they used a real piece of s.h.i.t. as a fan on the first series but many people complained and they must have done something about that on later series, that's for sure

the rotations per minutes will tell the difference
the first ones had noisy ~8000rpm, the later ones ~5400

[mill]

Well i hope they not just feeding me a line of -x-x i hope they fixed it .It will be about two or three weeks yet till i find out. The salesman seems pretty cool .

[Chewy]

Well i hope they not just feeding me a line of -x-x i hope they fixed it .It will be about two or three weeks yet till i find out. The salesman seems pretty cool .

Do yourself a favor and see if you can get the powersupply upgraded.

[toomanycats]

It is very possible that my old power supply had problems, as the whole computer crapped out so uniformly. The supply was under powered. If I got that barebones kit I would definatedly check out the specs. I would build my own computer l(ike I just did) from now on because even though it may be a
breaqk even proposition you end up with the machine you want. Anyone getting a Amd 754 socket based processor should know that that socket will be phased out next year, that is why there are such good deals.

[toomanycats]

I have fat fingers

[mill]

PS 535W - Enermax EG565P-FMA REV.2.0 , more?

[Chewy]

PS 535W - Enermax EG565P-FMA REV.2.0 , more?

no, that's more than adequate, way to go, thought you were going
cheaper

[Chewy]

Case NO PS - Antec Super LANBoy Aluminum Mid T Power Supply: PS 535W - Enermax EG565P-FMA REV.2.0 ATX Case Fan: None
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Audio/GB- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core 512K Per Thermal Grease: Shin-Etsu G675 Thermal Grease (Cools CPU Heat Sink Fan: None - Fan REQUIRED - except with RETAIL
Memory: DDR (400) 3200 - 1 GB (2 pcs 512) Patriot 2nd Memory: None
Hard Drive: - SATA3G - Western Digital Caviar SE 160 GB 2nd Hard Drive: SATA3G - Western Digital Caviar SE 160 GB RAID Setup: None
RAID Controller: None
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW: DVD±RW - BENQ DW1640 16X DVD±RW DL w/Soft CD-RW/DVD-RW: None
CD-RW Software: Ahead Nero 6.3 Suite DVD+-RW Software (OE DVD-ROM Software: Cyberlink PowerDVD 6.0 (OEM) Floppy Drive: Mitsumi 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive More Storage: None
Sound Card: None
Video Card: eVGA GeForce 6600 256MB DDR/PCI-E/HDTV-Ou Modem: None
Network Card: None
Wireless Network Card: None
Add-On Card: None
Case Function Add-On: None
Round Cables: None
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2 Additional Software: None
Antivirus: None

Molex Connector: None
Video Capture: None
TV Tuner: None
I was thinkink about getting this built , has anyone have any opinions they like to share with me, ?

is this what you ordered?

[mill]

Yep thats the one, but i changed the burner to a nec 3540.

[UncasMS]

the enermax are very good - go for it if they are in your price range

i wouldnt want to trade my enermax for other psu in my pcs

[Chewy]

He already has, I got confused, too many computers being built in this thread.
Pricing enermax supplies next!

[mill]

Must be that time of year to upgrade. But this 2800 amd HP desk top im using now does wanders too.

[Chewy]

You'll never regret going custom open architecture versus proprietary,
not that all factory made(Dell, HP ,Comcrap, Emach, Gateway(restinpeace))
computers were wholy proprietary. Working on factory computers is almost always a pain in the a**. Too many oem devices with poor support.
Dell is probably the easiest, comcrap the worst. I did an acer by sears
that after 4 yrs there was no support.

r2dr and cp3o were much easier to work on.