Build... Opinions wanted. Specially to save money:)

[teachmeplease]

Yeah everything looks good, did you go with the MoBo and PSU that Worship suggested? Also what OS are you gonna run?

Yes sir, I am going to run windows xp sp2.. Just got it off the bay.

Thanks for all of the advice guys. I'll keep in touch with the progress.

Teachmeplease

 

[LambOfGod]

Yes sir, I am going to run windows xp sp2.. Just got it off the bay.

Thanks for all of the advice guys. I'll keep in touch with the progress.

Teachmeplease

it looks like you have 4GB of Ram your going to get,

I would recommend getting a 64bit OS to support that memory.

 

[kjman87]

I have that vidcard and it runs cool under load, and it just looks awesome too...

overall great card!

 

[PokerDegenerate]

it looks like you have 4GB of Ram your going to get,

I would recommend getting a 64bit OS to support that memory.

That is exactly why I asked...If you run XP unless it is the XP professional x64 I believe it will only recognize about 3.5Gbs or even less of your ram...It will use the remainder of the ram as an "address" memory for the bios' MMIO (Memory-Mapped Input/Output) In other words your computer is assigning some of your "physical" memory as "address" memory to run its input output devices such as the USB ports, Integrated video cards or sound cards, and PCI buses. Upgrading to a 64 bit OS will fix this unless you are still using the on-board video but you already said you have a graphics card so that's not a problem here