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New build, will she comply?


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Hung On Gravity

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$836.54 at checkout, $776.54 with shipping and *rebates

Case
Cooler Master Centurion 5 w/ window ($50)

Mobo
ASUS M2N-E Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra ($100)

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ ($130)

Video Card
Xfx GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB 128-bit DDR3 ($140) *20

Power Supply
550W Rosewill RP550-2 ATX 2.01 ($66)

Memory
2GB Corsiar XMS2 4-4-4-12 DDR2800 (PC6400) 1GB x 2 ($115) *40

Hard Drive 1
Western Digital Caviar 250GB 7,200RPM SATA ($65)

Hard Drive 2
Samsung SV8004H 80GB ($0)

CD Drive
SAMSUNG Black 18x DVD+R 8x DVD+RW ($30)

OS
Windows Vista Home Premium System Builder’s 32-bit ($112)

All Newegg prices as of today, decided to post up here to see if I missed anything. Better safe than working backwards re-ordering new parts. If you got any suggestions, in any form, by all means hit this thread.

I'm trying to decide between building this model or buying Best Buy's new Gateway GM5474 for $899.99, I'm leaning towards the build because I would rather sacrifice around 170GB of hard drive space, tv tuner, and 15 in 1 card reader for a faster graphics card and pc6400 memory.

Edited by Hung On Gravity, 03 August 2007 - 02:30 PM.

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Hello and Welcome to G2G!!

The only thing good about that build is the CPU and the Memory. If you are going to be gaming, I would suggest a better graphic card, for example for DX10 the best are 8800 and the 2900 series but for DX9 I would get the 1950 series because they are extremely overclockable and the price is good. The motherboard is a definate no, because its an old chipset.

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