Building My 1st Gaming Rig

[Azzie]

So I have an out of the box computer at the moment. It can handle 5 WoWs but its slow and clunky. Due to fund issues, I am buying it piece by piece. I have a "shoppping list" and wanted to get some feedback from you more tech-savy people. If I have anything wrong or I am missing any parts, PLEASE speak up =) I think I have it all. Like I said, I haven't ever built a box before, I have replaced parts and stuff but that's it. Going to talk the honey into helping me. Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. I can't help but look at my list and think I may be missing some parts.

Here is what I currently have:

Gateway GT4022
AMD Athlon 64 Processor
4000+
1.81 GHz, 3.00GB DDR Ram (I added 3.5 of those)
Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter (I added this)
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Graphics Card (I added this)
Seagate FreeAgent Go Drive 500GB x2 (I added both)
RealTek HD Audio Card (I added this)

Here is what I'm buying or have bought:

Case:
Thermaltake v9 Black ATX Mid Tower model #VJ400G1N2Z

MoBo:
ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard (purcahsed)

Processor:
AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor (purchased)

DvD Writer:
LG Black 22X DVD+R 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R SATA 22X Super Multi DVD Writer (purchased)

Hard Drive:
SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM (purchased)

Memory:
OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2RPR10664GK

Power Supply:
Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC Power Supply SOLD OUT - Need a replacement!

Video Card:
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100269VXLE Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported

[Nghtmr9999]

CPU, GPU, RAM, Mobo, Case PSU, HDD and Disc Drive. You seem to have all the components, everything appears to be compatible. You are good to go!

[Tim]

Imo I'd go Intel, but you have the CPU already. As it stands now, intel CPUs dominate the field. But it changes back and forth constantly.

How well do the AMD's OC?

[Azzie]

Originally Posted by Tim

How well do the AMD's OC?

Speeky Zee Engrish? I know nothing about Overclocking... that's why I keep you guys around!

[necrimus]

Getting my stuff for my new system on Thursday. Should be sweet, I haven't built and i7 before.

[Poyzon]

Good news Necrimus, your package arrived early!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAq_KnDIPc

[necrimus]

My UPS guy is awesome. Besides, I always sit on the porch and wait for him, lol. The FedEx ground guy is a different story . . .

[ebony]

Originally Posted by Poyzon

Good news Necrimus, your package arrived early!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAq_KnDIPc

lol back to the days of Ace Ventura Pet Detective "HDS Delivery Man" scane at the start


Just happon to look like a Ups Guy!

[burningforce]

hmm only suggestions I can make is get a different power supply from a trusted brand. I use the corsair brand, they have better voltage levels and I never had a problem with it.

also that hard drive you purchased only runs at 5400 RPM. that will mean it will be slower then a 7200RPM which will cost about the same. Wow uses Random access read/writes more then anything, so a faster spinning hard drive with a big cache (32MB+). But seeing as how you bought it already, i would just try it and see. you could always buy another hard drive that is around $40-$70 that is faster and has a 32MB+ cache and use it solely for Wow
it does not have to be super big, I would just get a 320gig or 500gig hard drive, whatever is in your budget.

[burningforce]

also that hard drive is OEM, so only thing is the box is a hard drive(hopefully )
you will have to buy a cable for if you do not have one already