Help Building First Rig (Gaming)

With regards to the mobo issue....the mobo I want miraculously came back in stock today so I have switched that out below in my updated build.

How much do you think graphic cards will drop...and will it affect high end cards like the GTX 260?

-CPU (AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz) $150.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649
With $5.00 Promo Code
EMCLPLP24
-Motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2) $75.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
-Memory 2x (G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800) $80.00 (8 GB Total)
$5 off w/ promo code EMCLNNP29
-Hard Drive (Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB) $80.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319
-DVD/CD (BurnerLG Black 22X DVD R/RW) $26.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
-Graphics Card (EVGA GTX 260) $220.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130434
-Fan (Antec Tri-Cool 120mm Case Fan) $10.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209005
-Heatsink & Fan (XIGMATEK HDT-RS1283 Red Scorpion) $33.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233012
-Power Supply (CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W) $100.00 *Purchased ($75 w/MRI)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
-OS (Vista Home 64bit) $100.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488
-Case (Antec Three Hundred) $60.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042&Tpk=antec 300
-Monitor (Going to pick up one at local store as recommended) ~$150.00-200.00


Total: $860
+ tax & shipping = $950
+ monitor ~ $1100
 
With that good news here is my updated build. I'm thinking of buying everything except the video card tonight unless you guys can think of any reason to hold off.

-CPU (AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz) $150.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649
With $5.00 Promo Code
EMCLPLP24
-Motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2) $75.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
-Memory 2x (G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800) $80.00 (8 GB Total)
$5 off w/ promo code EMCLNNP29
-Hard Drive (Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB) $80.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319
-DVD/CD (BurnerLG Black 22X DVD R/RW) $26.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
-Graphics Card (XFX HD-487A-ZDFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit) ~$150.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150352
-Fan (Antec Tri-Cool 120mm Case Fan) $10.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209005
-Heatsink & Fan (XIGMATEK HDT-RS1283 Red Scorpion) $33.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233012
-Power Supply (CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W) $100.00 *Purchased ($75 w/MRI)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
-OS (Vista Home 64bit) $100.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488
-Case (Antec Three Hundred) $60.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042&Tpk=antec 300
-Monitor (Going to pick up one at local store as recommended) ~$150.00-200.00

Edit: mobo is still out of stock so I'll buy that an the 4870 next week.
 
Just my 2 cents, microcenter has the Antec 300 case for 44.99 instore and 49.99 online this week. Dont know if you already get everything or not.
 
No I didn't. I decided to wait for the mobo and graphics card because I realized I was only saving $15 in daily specials and there might be a better chance in general price reductions by next week. I didn't realize microcenter had stuff online. Thanks for the tip.
 
Bought evrything except graphics card and mobi today because they are out of stock. Quick question though, what's the easiest way tobupload pictures when it comes time?
 
TheEnglishJob said:
Bought evrything except graphics card and mobi today because they are out of stock. Quick question though, what's the easiest way tobupload pictures when it comes time?
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Imageshack and Photobucket are the two services I use.
 
In case anyone is interested, here is everything I ordered and my mobo and graphics card will be here Tuesday.

Build:

-CPU (AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz) $150.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649
-Motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2) $75.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
-Memory 2x (G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800) $80.00 (8 GB Total)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122
-Hard Drive (Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB) $80.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319
-DVD/CD (BurnerLG Black 22X DVD R/RW) $26.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
-Graphics Card (EVGA 896-P3-1260-TR GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3) ~$200.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130464
-Fan (Antec Tri-Cool 120mm Case Fan) $10.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209005
-Heatsink & Fan (XIGMATEK HDT-RS1283 Red Scorpion) $33.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233012
-Power Supply (CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W) $100.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
-OS (Vista Home 64bit) $100.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488
-Case (Antec Three Hundred) $60.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042&Tpk=antec 300
-Monitor (21.5” Wide LCD, 15000:1, 5ms) $180.00
@costco
-UPS (APC Back-UPS CS 500) $Free

Total: $1180 before MRI (probably about $75-100…we’ll see how much I get)

*I'll post pictures in a few days and hopefully will update with good news.
 
So I finished plugging in everything last night and tried booting and it worked! After changing the boot order to the cd-rom as the priority I installed Vista. However, in the drive partition option menu I allocated 300 gigs as the first partition and left the remaining as unallocated space (assuming it would just turn whatever was leftover into a separate partition). Well now when I load up Windows and look in My Computer it only shows the partition of 300 gigs that I made, which means the other 300 something gigs of my hard drive are lost (at least to my knowledge). Do I need to uninstall Windows and reinstall to redo the partitions or is there any easier way to do that from within Windows. If it matters, I haven't installed a single thing yet.

Also, I was planning on only making 2 partitions, however after reading many articles online I found that many people felt having 30-40 gigs just for Vista was a good idea...curious what your guys opinion on that was?
 
TheEnglishJob said:
So I finished plugging in everything last night and tried booting and it worked! After changing the boot order to the cd-rom as the priority I installed Vista. However, in the drive partition option menu I allocated 300 gigs as the first partition and left the remaining as unallocated space (assuming it would just turn whatever was leftover into a separate partition). Well now when I load up Windows and look in My Computer it only shows the partition of 300 gigs that I made, which means the other 300 something gigs of my hard drive are lost (at least to my knowledge). Do I need to uninstall Windows and reinstall to redo the partitions or is there any easier way to do that from within Windows. If it matters, I haven't installed a single thing yet.

Also, I was planning on only making 2 partitions, however after reading many articles online I found that many people felt having 30-40 gigs just for Vista was a good idea...curious what your guys opinion on that was?
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30 to 40GB is a bit small IMO. I personally like the idea of short-stroking the drive where you partition the first 20% to 25% of the total drive space as your main OS partition. So in this case, you still have two partitions but the first partition should be 160GB and the rest of the space for the second partition.

Oh and you can go into Disk Management to initialize the second partition or leftover space. Hit up this link for more info:
http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista
 
After reading through the Windows forum I figured out how to make the remaining unallocated space into a second partition. So now I have 2 partitions of roughly 300 gigs each. :)
 
I would like to thank everyone who helped out along the way. My computer is running great and I have attached some pictures below. THANKS!











 
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