Your Advice or Opinion on SFF Gaming Rig

[mwright552]

:D Hi Folks! This is my 1st post. I'd like your advice and/or opinion on this SFF Gaming Rig I'm building. Here is the parts list for your parusal.

1 Lian Li PC-V300B Black Aluminum MicroATX Desktop Computer Case
1 eVGA 256-P2-N516 Geforce 7800GT CO SE 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
1 ASUS Combo Drive Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model CB-5216AG
1 NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3550A
1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
1 AuzenTech XMYSTIQUE7.1 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
1 FSP Group (Fortron Source) FX700-GLN ATX12V/ EPS12V 700W All-In-One Power Supply
3 Sunbeam SLF-08-B 80mm Sleeve Blue LED Light Silent Case Cooling Fan
1 ZALMAN CNPS 8000 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
1 OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory
1 AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA4000BNBOX

:confused: My biggest issue is which matx mobo to get. I've narrowed it down to these 2. What do you think?

MSI K8NGM2-FID Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
eVGA 131-K8-NF44-AX Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Thank you, in advance for all your help:D .

[Modred]

I haven't looked at the specs on either mobo, but I'd lean toward the nForce4 simply because it doesn't have the integrated graphics and supports SLI in the event you ever grab another video card. (I believe I'm correct that the Geforce 6150 chipset is nvidia's integrated chipset, right? and you won't need integrated graphics with a separate card like what you've got)

[WeekendLazyness]

Those Zalman CPU heatsinks are pretty big. It would probably be a good idea to make sure it fits before buying it (they have dimentsions on their website).

[TimP]

I bought an MSI MicroATX motherboard last summer and it totally sucked. My complaints all had to do with Linux support so it may have been fine for Windows, but luckily I was able to get a refund and buy another board.

In case anyone is interested, the clock would run ridiculously fast (gained about 4 hours in one day) and it wouldn't shut down properly. The system would halt but it wouldn't power off and the front button wouldn't do anything either so the only way to turn it off was to pull the plug.

Then again, that's not the MSI board I bought, but as far as I know MSI never released any BIOS fixes for the above problems so my recommendation of avoiding them still stands.

That's a slick looking case and assuming you can fit all those components in there and cool them, it should be a pretty wicked machine.