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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
PC Gaming

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$600, yes
3) Where do you live?
Southern California
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=12405852

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
None

6) Will you be overclocking?
Nope

7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
19 incher.

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Newegg
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
none at the moment.

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
Yes.


Doing this build for a friend, he played MW2 on someones PC and now he wants a pc to run MW2 maxed.

I've posted the parts.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=12405852

Just want any more suggestions before i go to him and purchase the parts.

Thanks.
 
Unless your friend wants a dead system, never use that PSU. Also I would not go with a DDR2 based setup since the price hikes for them. In addition, adding additional memory in the future would be cost prohibitive with DDR2 RAM. So definitely go DDR3.

Here's what I recommend instead:

$194 - AMD Phenom II X3 720 CPU + GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AMD 785G HDMI mATX motherboard Combo
$79 - OCZ Obsidian OCZ3OB1600LV4GK 2 x 2GB DDR3 1600 FS
$117 - Visiontek 900287 Radeon HD 4850 1GB PCI-E Video Card FS
$55 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive FS
$27 - LG Black GH22LS50 DVD Burner
$110 - Antec 300 ATX Case with Antec Earthwatts EA650 650W PSU FS
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$582 plus tax and shipping

Key advantages over your current build:
- Bigger and better PSU for more headroom for future upgrades.
- Slightly more future proof CPU since future games will take advantage of multiple cores
- Slightly faster video card.
- Slightly better CPU upgrade path
 
Thanks for the input.

Yeah i wasn't too sure on the PSU as well.
Ram prices these days increased a lot. I remeber not too long ago ddr2 2x2gb ram was like 50 shipped.

Thanks.
 
Any reason you are going with DDR2 versus DDR3? They are about the same price, in fact you can get faster DDR3 RAM.

For example:
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 - 79.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 - 94.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231180


If you need to shave $15, grab this HDD instead:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB - 54.99 + Free Shipping
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?&Item=N82E16822148395
There are a couple small differences, the Seagate has a 3 year warranty versus the 5 year on the WD. Also, the Seagate has 1 500GB platter whereas the WD uses multiple platters, thus the Seagate is faster.

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Yeah, basically what Danny Bui said.
 
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I've been using DDR2 in all of my freinds builds ever since. I thought DDR3 wasn't good enough for the money. Now we fast foward from 1-2 years ago to today. I think i would use DDR3 now. I've looked at the seagate and samsung harddrives, its pretty good for the money, better than WD.

Yeah lately i wasn't to up to date on computer hardware, since im a senior at my highschool now and have a lot of things in my mind. Colleges, college apps, classes, last of my SAT's... etc etc. I've been busy.

Thanks guys.
 
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