Gaming rig, what ya think?

[kame]

Building a new PC and need your blessing. Here is what I am planning to get:

Case & Power Supply:
Antec P-180 / NeoPower 480 ATX12V v2.0 Power Supply 480W

Motherboard & CPU
Motherboard, A8N-SLI Premium / Athlon 64 FX-57 2.8GHz

Memory
1GB PC4000 500MHz 184-pin Non-ECC Unbuffered Ballistix DDR SDRAM DIMM

Video Adapter / Sound Card
Dual Geforce 7800GTX SLI / Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

Hard Drive
(2)250GB 7200RPM SATA II Hard Drive - 16MB Cache /Raid 0

What ya think anything else you recommend? Extra cooling?

[Jeffbx]

Don't RAID your drives. Get a 73GB 10K RPM Raptor for OS & apps, and a big secondary drive for storage. All the RAID will do is increase your chances of a drive failure & complicate your setup.

[Markel]

What ya think anything else you recommend?
Yeah. If you can afford all that, SEND ME SOME MONEY! :kaching:

[Showtime]

Don't RAID your drives. Get a 73GB 10K RPM Raptor for OS & apps, and a big secondary drive for storage. All the RAID will do is increase your chances of a drive failure & complicate your setup.

:stupid:

[kame]

Been saving for ages..... Havent upgraded in long long time.

Thanks for the tip about the Raid. Will take your advice and go with single Raptor 74g 10k HD.

Made adjustment to the PSU. Changed it from 480watt to the Antec 550watt TRUE CONTROL II. (SLI have a require 550watt.)

Thinking about Asus A8N32. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe supports dual PCI Express x16 slots running at full speed to liberate graphics cards from the narrow bandwidth platform of x8 speed only. With ASUS' innovative designs to bring out the real potential of NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 chipsets, gamers can easily enjoy faster graphics performance and higher video quality today, and be ready for the even more demanding tasks of tomorrow!

SOLD me....

Maybe the Cooler MAster Aqua 120 for the CPU cooling?

Hope everything fits

[Showtime]

Grab a thermalright xp-90 ($25-30) or xp-90c (copper) or 120 for your cpu.
All three are great coolers and will let you do some ocing or run quietly or both depending on your fan choice.

This is getting to be poplular and would also be a great choice.
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/4in1heatpipe/cl-p0114bigtyphoon/cl-p0114.htm

[bachviet]

I'm with all who suggest the 73GB WD Raptor drives.

[GraingerGuy]

I was wondering why you don't consider the AMD 64 4000+?

These are Newegg prices
1. 4000+ = $372
2. FX-57 = $1011

I know you've been saving a while....but this would save you a significant amount of money. If you are really bent on getting an FX, why not the 55? Over at newegg, it's $811.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050627/athlon_fx57-06.html - Here is a review of the FX-57 if you want.