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Prim3

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

Upgrading my system for better gaming. Some photoshop fooling around with. Mostly gaming and pc stuff

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?

At most 350

3) Where do you live?

Texas

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.

CPU/RAM/MOBO

I'll be upgrading the case and PSU be end of the year
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.

Seagate 320g SATA Drive
SATA DVD/CD Write
BFG (best buy) Psu
BFG 250gts 1gig



6) Will you be overclocking?

No

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

When they drop in price more 120hz 23-24" Monitor

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?

With in the month

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.

MATX MATX MATX MATX I want a small tower and considering one the Lian Li cubes for the case or the A03, or a Silver Stone MATX. I am open for sugesttions on the case.

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

Windows Vista and will go to 7 obviously

This is what I am looking at right now. Would it be worth my wild to get the black edition or just drop down to their standard phenom. I do not plan to overclock.

ASUS M4A78-EM AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor - Retail

CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5 - Retail
 
Save your cash and get a x4 945, its not worth the $30 for 200 Mhz.

Also you get a better board in Gigabyte 785g for like $5 more.
 
I agree with It_Shiro. There is a combo deal on the Gigabyte 785G chipset mobo + Corsair 4GB DDR2 800 modules for $133.98. 200MHZ difference between the 3.2ghz X4 955 and 3.0ghz X4 945 cpu, you won't be able to tell the difference in gaming or other uses. So.. just get the X4 945 cpu for $169.99 w/free shipping. But, if you so choose to get the X4 955, you're still within your $350 budget.
 
Ya, but saving money is saving money. The board needs to be MATX so I'll look at the Gigabyte options for it. Good point about just 200 hz isn't that big of a deal. Is it worth maybe looking at DDR3 or just do DDR2 and save the cash and put it back for the PSU and case pick up down the road.

I got so much old crap I should try to sell and HTC Snap lol.
 
Thanks for that link. I most likely will be ordering Friday now.

Now it's time to find a MATX case and PSU to run this all.
 
This is a very good quality PSU:
$80 - Antec TruePower New TP-550 550W PSU

And sicne this does popup a lot in SFF builds: Don't go with any of the modular OCZ PSUs. They're simply low quality PSUs that are not worth the money.

Case wise, some recommendations:
$40 - Cooler Master Elite 341 RC-341C-KKN1-GP mATX Tower Case
$75 - Silverstone SUGO SG02W-F White mATX Case
$80 - Silverstone SUGO SG02B-F Black mATX Case
$90 - Silverstone SUGO SG01B-F Black mATX Case
$100 - Lian Li PC-V350A Silver mATX Case
$100 - Lian Li PC-V350B Black mATX Case
$120 - Lian Li PC-V351A Silver mATX Case
$120 - Lian Li PC-V351A Black mATX Case
$120 - Silverstone SG03-B mATX Case
 
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95watt one can overclock little better and save you cash on your light bill.
 
Qty Product Description Price
Order #:
1

CPU Mag Gift - 6 free issues of CPU Magazine - OEM
Item #: N82E16800995076

Standard Return Policy



$35.94

1

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Item #: N82E16813128394

Standard Return Policy



$84.99
$79.99

1

AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor Model HDX945WFGIBOX - Retail
Item #: N82E16819103696

Standard Return Policy



$179.99
$169.99

1

CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5 - Retail
Item #: N82E16820145184

Memory Standard Return Policy



$58.99
$53.99

1
DISCOUNT FOR COMBO #237074


-$20.00

1
DISCOUNT FOR AUTOADD #4500


-$35.94

Subtotal $283.97
Tax $0.00
UPS Ground $0.00
Order Total $283.97

Not bad not bad.
 
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