Okay guyz i decided on this AMD Athlon64 3200+ Socket939 MSI Neo2 Nforce4 Socket939 XFX Nvidia GeForce 6600 256MB DDR Pci E Is this OKAY ? i was mad that i bought an intel 2.4 celeron for gaming

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Sounds ok to me. How much is it all going to cost? Just curious. And where are you going to get it at also. TIA! YO

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If you mean the MSI K8N Neo2 board that it has no NForce4 but the NForce3 chipset and still works with AGP. I would suggest a socket 939 board with NForce4 and PCI Express (pcie) support combined with a pcie graphic card. That way you may upgrade later to a newer graphic card. Depending on you budget I'd suggest a 6600GT or even 6800GT. The 6600Gt works with a GPU clock of 500MHz compared to 300MHz of the 6600 which is quite a bit faster. Compared to that the 6800GT has a lower GPU clock but a more complex GPU which makes it a lot faster than the 6600GT. With 3DMark 03 i measured nearly double the points than with the 6600GT. FX5200: This is a nice card for office but even for normal gaming it's just not suitable. Even any old TI4200 card is much faster than the FX5200. The TI4200 may not support DirectX9 but the FX5200 may know the commands but is just too slow to really use those commands. And sorry but even building this card with 256MB Ram makes absolutely no sense to me. You need that ram only for gaming and there it's too slow so what do they want with 256MB on it (calculating high detail textures for modern games just will not work unless you like to deal with 1 fps frames!) ????

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Sorry I forgot: With that Athlon64 3200+ your system should be fast enough for the games but the real speed and quality of actual games depends to about 95% on the graphic card you build in the system. That card has to do all the important work and as long as the cpu is able to supply the basic data fast enough a good graphic card will do the rest. Example: Last year I bought a FX5900XT to replace the old Geforce2 GTS on may old Athlon Thinderbird 1,2@1,33GHz 512MB SD Ram system. after that all those game I barely made the minimal cpu requirements of around 1GHz CPU played smoothly at highest or at least very high graphic setting with AA 2x/4x and AS 4x/8x settings. I did this because I planned to upgrade the rest at the start of this year and wanted to use the card on the system. Luckily I was able to sell that new one just after building it and to get a Athlon64 3000+ Winchester PCIe system together with a 6600GT instead! BTW: I have the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board and I'm very happy with that. I successfully OCed the 3000+ from 1800MHz up to 2700MHz but with 3DMark 05 this 50% OC just got me 3% more points so I clocked it back to normal until I really need a faster CPU! Just to make it clear, there's no warranty you can OC that high with every Athlon64 3000+. The one I sold before with the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and my mentioned FX5900XT just ended up at maximal 2520MHz and became too unstable above!

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