PC build - quick opinion before we hit the 'pay' button :)

Hey guys,

My brother is just doing a PC build and asked me to check over his build list before he buys it all.. but I figured I'd get the collective clue of Devshed too, just cos I'm not the greatest hardware guy

So scroll down to see the list.. I'm just keep to know that the cpu and the mobo are okay together, and that mobo and case are okay too...

thanks all
christo

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Mobo:
S478 Intel 845PE ATX A L
P4PE-X socket 478 Pentium 4 motherboard based on the Intel 845PE chipset. P4PE-X supports FSB 800 MHz P4 CPU and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.

CPU:
2.67Ghz Intel P4 Retail (Skt 478 533Mhz FSB)
Northwood Core 512k L2 Cache - Retail Boxed - 3year warranty

FAN:
Arctic Cooler Super Silent 4 Pro TC
Socket 478 Cooler upto P4 3.06 Ghz
Fan Speed 800 - 2600 RPM
Thermal Resistance 0.18 C / Watt

DVDCD/RW:
48x24x48x 16x DVD/CDRW RTL
LTC - 48161H

Memory:
256Mb DDR (PC3200) 400
Requires M'board that supports PC3200 / DDR400

Floppy:
3.5 Floppy Disk Drive 1.44Mb

Video Card:
64MB XFX Geforce4 MX440
with TV-OUT

Hard Drive:
80Gb Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 (2MB Cache)
7200 RPM - 1 Yr Warranty - 2MB Buffer - OEM Plain Boxed

Screen:
15" AOC LCD Monitor LM520A (Silver) - 3 Year on site warranty
1024 x 768 Resolution, VESA, XGA, SVGA, VGA Compatible

Case:
Eagle / Sky Hawke PSR 5620 Aluminium
500 x 412 x 200 (DxHxW mm) - Front Access USB ports - NO PSU
http://www.cclcomputers.biz/jscript...etail_frame.htm

Power Supply:
300W ATX TUV Power Supply

Sound:
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital

sounds great, i would only mention the sb live sound card, because i really am having alot of trouble with them, i have a audigy2 and my wife has the sb live5.1, i am having trouble with some apps, like paltalk and some media players. i pulled my audigy and am now using the on-board via sound and it sounds better, cant use my some of my speakers, but i can talk on paltalk and do a few other things again. my wife has the sb live on a intel 845 chipset and has the same troubles with the same apps, machines are different in every respect, i have a athlon, she has p4, i have nvidia video card, she has radeon.......so i am at a loss, tried every update, firmware/bios/drivers/irq settings i could think of, even has the same trouble on a 9x system. the cards seem to work fine at yahoo, and with windows media player, winamp, i notice the distortion with fruityloops, cooledit pro,paltalk,voice2video,quicktime player, powerdvd 6 and any time i use my mixer.

well I think he's actually place the order now.. but thanks for the reply. I'll let you know how it goes next week

christo

How did it go?