Neeed help with Upgrade Choices. What do you think?

[pr-man 1]

ok guys I havent upgraded in a while so I need some advice. I am upgrading my case, cpu, ram, mobo and vid card. Can you take a look at the links I have posted and tell me what you think of my tentative choices?

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-417&depa=0

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-281R&depa=0

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-124-002&depa=0

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-106-037&depa=1

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-917&depa=1

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-138-033&depa=1

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-208&depa=1

[pr-man 1]

49 views and no one has anything to say?

[Brian Frank 0]

I'm not sure I'd trust OCZ. From their past, I'd be really cautious about buying them. Anything of the Epox brand in the past couple of years I personally wouldn't touch.

 

I haven't tried it, but Geil DDR seems to be pretty good and pretty cheap. I've also been reading rave reviews over PMI's DDR.

For the motherboard, I'm running the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe myself and I'm very pleased with it. Other popular choices are Abit's NF7-S ver. 2.0 and the DFI LanParty/Infinity boards.

 

For heatsinks, you might wanna look into ThermalRight stuff like the SLK-800/900 series. I'm not saying the other coolers you linked are bad, but I'm not sure how well they'll perform.

[pr-man 1]

actually i chaned the ram to 1 gig crucial and nixed the 9800 pro.

 

as for the mobo i nixed the epox and am looking at either abit or MSI what do you think?

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-419&depa=0

 

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-144&depa=0

 

 

[sapiens74 0]

Go with ABIT bro

 

I've had mixed results with MSI in the past

[Brian Frank 0]

MSI is usually solid, but the K7N2 Delta's are pretty bad. I had 2 of them that threw fits with every stick of RAM I had---which worked great in the other systems I had.