Final Revision....about to order!!!

[MutEr]

Case : 69.99

LOGISYS Silver PHANTOM ATX Mid Tower Case With 480W PSU & ENGRAVING ACRYLIC LED LIT-UP WINDOW, Model "CS601SL" (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-148-006&depa=1)

Video Card : 200.00

ATI RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-286&depa=1)

CPU : 218.00

AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512k L2 Cache, The Only 64-bit Windows Compatible Processor (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-483&depa=1)

Mobo: 126.00

MSI nForce3 250 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 CPU, Model "K8N Neo Platinum" (MS-7030) (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-457&depa=0)

Ram: 228.00

Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, (Twin Pack) 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-450&depa=1)

Hard Drive: 49.99 (Circuit City w/ rebates)

Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD1200JBRTL (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-165&depa=1)


Total Price(pre-shipping) : $890.00

I'm open for any help. Does anyone have anything to add, or anything to warn me about? Does anyone have any alternatives that might give me about the same performance as the products I have selected, but for a lower price? I'm lookin' at you nuke...I haven't checked most of the prices on pricewatch.com yet, so they might be a little lower. I'm worried that I am going TOO all out on this. I'm not a hardcore gamer, I just wouldn't mind playing the occasional game of UT2k4 or Halo.

[Viper]

Don't forget keyboard/mouse/monitor/WinXP/Norton......


Other than that, not a bad set up. It will run the hell out of both of those games.

[MrX]

god damn dude not bad at all.

[HereticPB]

Get most of that on ebay for half that and new. Could find bigger ram on ebay but good choice of ram anyhow. If your not a hardcore gamer as you say an XP chip would work also.

[BigChops]

You should try and build it yourself. It's not really that hard, and it'll be good experience. Just make sure you follow all the instructions, hold the components by their edges and make sure you're always touching the metal on the case and you should be golden.

Oh yeah, are you just going to put a stock heatsink and fan on there?

[MutEr]

I am building it myself, these are the parts that i'm about to order. I was gonna leave the stock heatsink and fan until i got some more money for better ones. I'm not overclocking it, so I don't think it should be a problem to use the ones that came with the processor.

[MrX]

Hmm yea you should be ok with the stock heatsink.