Blue Kool Antec Aria (my first mod) *Updated 2/21 : FINISHED THE CASE!!!*

It is definitely not 5/18 (or 18/5. for that matter) anywhere in the world right now. At least not on the Gregorian calendar.

 

Obviously your planning on going with a socket 754 system, my concern is that the X700 Pro is incompatible with all ASUS micro-ATX socket 754 motherboards. There is no X700 Pro AGP video card which means they are all PCI-Express 16x, the only ASUS micro-ATX with any PCI-Express slots is the K8S-MX which has 2 PCI slots, 1 AGP 8x slot, and a PCI-Express 1x slot.
All ASUS motherboards
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/mbindex.htm
The K8S-MX
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket754/k8s-mx/overview.htm
The only PCI-Express 16x micro-ATX AMD64 motherboard, that I know of, is the MSI RS480M2-IL which is socket 939, meaning you'd have to buy a socket 939 AMD64 3200+ or 3500+ and your 1gb of ram would be able to run in dual channel, giving a slight performance gain. You could also buy a AGP video card such as a AGP Nvidia 6600gt instead of the more expensive socket 939 system.

 

Maybe, by PCI he means PCI-E as nearly every motherboard has PCI!!!! so its not hard to find one that "supports" it... where as since PCI-E is a relatively new standard... then he mightve meant PCI-E as not every motherboard supports it

and they dont make a PCI x700 to my knowledge, only pci-e

 

yea, i almost made the huge mistake of buying a pcie card for a pcie x1 motherboard . I figured out to support the video card i want i have to get the msi that you were mentioning. this also means that i will have to get a socket 939 processor. luckily i havnt ordered anything yet.

 

The case is finally done. Now all i have to do is build the computer.
Peektars!






yay.

 

very very very very very very very nice paint job!

But i still don't know what to say about it...

 

very impressed with that paint job

good work...

hopefully my paintwork will be as good as that

take care dude and keep on

 

Great job so far. If you don't mind, why did you choose white led fans when the Aria has those built in blue leds.

This is what I'd suggest as changes to your system hardware, it's slightly slower but is socket 939 and supports PCI-E and is the same price as your previous hardware.
Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939
1GB Corsair VS 2.5 CAS DDR400 RAM
MSI RS480M2-IL AMD64 Socket 939 Motherboard
PCI Radeon X700 256mb Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
120 Gig Western Digital HD
Logitech MX510
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers
Sony CR-RW/ DVD-ROM combo drive

I would also consider this, it's the most powerfull for the the same price.
Athlon 64 3400+ socket 754
1GB Corsair VS 2.5 CAS DDR400 RAM
ASUS K8S-MX Socket 754 Motherboard
EVGA GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 AGP 8X Video Card
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS
120 Gig Western Digital HD
Logitech MX510
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers
Sony CR-RW/ DVD-ROM combo drive

The reason I suggest the 6600gt is that it consistantly beats the X700pro despite having only 128mb DDR3 by about 20%.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050203/index-03.html

...unless you've already ordered the parts

 

i can get an x700 pro from work for 120 dollars after my discount.

 

Nevermind about the 6600gt; X700pro for $120 is unbeatable.

P.S. Where do you work?

 

Circuit city. Its awesome.

50% off logitech stuff
25-45% ATI stuff
65% off Infinity Stuff (awesome if your into car stereo)

Also we just got some AMAZING sony monitor/Televisions in. You can find um on the sony website. They have vga and dvi in, along with componant and Svideo in. they Are BEUTIFUL as well. i plan to get the 17" widescreen one.

 

Sounds like a great job, at least one with great benifits!

Are you talking about these Sony monitor/TV's?
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INT...egoryName=cpu_Displays_PCTV&Dept=cpu_Displays
Most other sony HDTVs have HDMI ports, like this one, which I plan one getting soon. (most likely from circuit city)
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INT...6XS955KIT&Dept=tv&CategoryName=tv_34"to36"TVs

Anyway, back to the mod at hand.

 

...update?

EDIT: 100th post, woot. Boy did I make it count.

 

Hey Ko9lnkid, do you know where i can find 120mm white led fans?

 

http://www.frozencpu.com/fan-133.html