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Old July 20th, 2007, 07:32 AM   #1
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Hey everyone,

One of my friends is setting himself a rig up just wanted to know you opinions.

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ sAM2
Motherboard: ASUS M2A-VM (AMD 690G chipset)
RAM: 2048 mb OCZ DDR2-800 Special Ops Edition Kit @ CL5
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PSU: Antes EarthWatts 430w
Antec Nine Hundred Case
Seagate 320gb SATA2 HDD
Sapphire X1950Pro 256mb PCIE
SoundBlaster XFi XtremeGamer

So what do you guys think?
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Old July 20th, 2007, 07:51 AM   #2
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you can save some money on the soundcard and get the extreme music eddition with golden plugs, its cheaper but the same card...
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Old July 20th, 2007, 07:53 AM   #3
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Looks fine to me but if he's thinking of eventually upgrading the GPU a better PSU would make thinks a lot easier. It's always better to have more watts than you need.
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Old July 20th, 2007, 04:23 PM   #4
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For the sound card, taken care of. For the power supply would a Cooler Master 500w would do? Or more than that?
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