Another Comment on system before order topic

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Toireht

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Well ordering a new computer tonight or tomorrow night and want to make sure I have made the right decisions. I have $900 to spend and this is what I have chosen:

Antec TX1050B Black Steel 500W Case - $139
Gigbabyte GA-K8n Pro-Sli Socket 939 - $101
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice - $146
Kingston Value Ram 1GB 2x512mb DDR 400 - $88
Lite-On IDE DVD Burner - $42.45
Western Digital Caviar 80gb 7200 - $50.25
eVGA Geforce 6800GT 256mb GDDR3 PCI-E - $289

Total After shipping : $885.51

This computer will be used to play games (Black and White 2, Elder Scrolls 4, Stalker, Quake 4) the high end games of today and tomorrow.
 
you're going to want a higher end video game if you want to play games of tomorrow.

a 7800GT minimum.

that's my opinion though.:)
 
This graphic card looks really cool, though awfully expesnsive:
Gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT

Imagine if it was possible to run TWO in SLI :eek:
 
I'd only get an SLI motherboard if you plan on going SLI in the future. The GPU should be fine as long as you don't mind playing at medium (and in some cases low) settings. Otherwise, looks good.
 
Do you believe if later down the road i get a 2nd one of these cards and put it in I will be able to run all the games i listed in high settings?
 
If you do put in a second 6800GT and go SLI you should be able to play most games at high settings. Still, games like FEAR probably won't be able to.
 
cool, well just ordered the computer and changed 2 last things which I think will be for the better here is the final list:


AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor (Venice) Socket 939

CASE ANTEC TX1050B 500W

MSI K8N Neo4/SLI nForce4 SLI Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA

NEC ND-3540A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Bare Drive (Black)

Western Digital WD Caviar WD800JD 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer

Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 Memory

eVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video card w/Dual DVI


Changed to a MSI board because the last computer I built it didn't have any problems with a MSI based board and I really like the professional look. It came to $906 for a final price, only went $6 over, WOOHOO!!
 
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