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PureBlue

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Here is a system I wanted to put together to play all the current games. I wanted to keep it cheap. I have an extra dvd drive and 19" lcd already. I wont be playing at massive high resolutions. The price is around $522 after shipping and mail in rebates. Before rebates it is about $610. That is the most I want to spend right out of pocket regardless of MIR. I want to OC the e2180 to 3.0 ghz, I saw some were doing this with the stock cooler. Would setting up a AMD 5400+ which is at 2.8 be a better choice? It is only $90 for the oem. Anyways here is what I have so far.

Anantech Sonata II with 450 watt psu Smart Power 2.0
Gigabyte p35 DS3L
MSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800GT 512MB
E2180

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
 
Swap (some of) the items out of your list for the following:

CASE/PSU: Antec NSK4480 with EarthWatts 380W PSU
VIDEO CARD: MSI 9600GT 512MB
MEMORY: A-DATA 2x1GB DDR2 800 dual channel kit (with $10 MIR)

I have an issue about rebates -- they're useless when it comes to "saving money" because they don't help you save any money when you're ordering everything. In fact, don't count the rebates until you get all of the checks in your hands.

The retail processors have a three year warranty, while the OEM processors have a 90-day warranty. Most E2XXX C2D processors, with decent air cooling, could easily reach speeds of around 3.0GHz. But some of the newer processors have been shipping with a smaller stock HSF, so you may want something along the lines of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

If you want to save more money, try seeing if you could find certain pieces elsewhere for cheaper. ZipZoomFly, ClubIT, eWiz, and Mwave are a few places to start looking at.
 
How much is a performance hit with the 9600gt over the 8800gt? I would prefer the 8800 if the $50 is justifiable.
 
The 8800GT is the better card, but if you want to save some money, the 9600GT is an acceptable alternative.

The 9600GT would work fine with your 19 inch monitor.
 
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