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loepa

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Hey everyone. My parents are giving me around $1200 for Christmas this year in order to replace my 4 year old rig.

Currently I am running:
Abit NF-7
Athlon XP 2500+
1 gig of PC 2700 DDR
256mb Radeon 9600

I would like to be able to play games such as Crysis, Unreal 3, Call of Duty 4, Medieval II: Total War, Elders Scrolls IV Oblivion, etc at 1680x1050 with most of the settings set to high.

Here is what I am currently considering ordering:
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black Case
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Motherboard
XFX Geforce 8800 GT
Corsair CMPSU-550VX PSU
Intel Core 2 Quad Kentsfield Q6600
4 gb G.skill DDR2 800 Ram
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Samsung Combo Drive
Tuniq Tower 120

This comes out to about $1175.

How does this look? I plan on getting a 64 bit version of Windows Vista as well. All suggestions are welcome, thanks.
 
Looks fine to me. See if you can find a deal on that P182 or a P180 case (if you don't mind silver or black). You can probably find that PSU cheaper at zipzoomfly, clubit, or buy.com instead of the egg. Also, get the CPU from clubit.com instead, since they guarantee G0 stepping -- requires less voltage and runs cooler -- a good thing whether you OC or not. Oh, and the Ultima90 performs the same as the Tuniq, yet its lighter, smaller, and easier to install:

$46 - Thermalright Ultima 90 CPU HS + Panaflo Hydrowave Fan, FBA09A12M - Z ($3)
 
loepa said:
Hey everyone. My parents are giving me around $1200 for Christmas this year in order to replace my 4 year old rig.

Currently I am running:
Abit NF-7
Athlon XP 2500+
1 gig of PC 2700 DDR
256mb Radeon 9600

I would like to be able to play games such as Crysis, Unreal 3, Call of Duty 4, Medieval II: Total War, Elders Scrolls IV Oblivion, etc at 1680x1050 with most of the settings set to high.

Here is what I am currently considering ordering:
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black Case
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Motherboard
XFX Geforce 8800 GT
Corsair CMPSU-550VX PSU
Intel Core 2 Quad Kentsfield Q6600
4 gb G.skill DDR2 800 Ram
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Samsung Combo Drive
Tuniq Tower 120

This comes out to about $1175.

How does this look? I plan on getting a 64 bit version of Windows Vista as well. All suggestions are welcome, thanks.
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Strong build, only thing I would change is the motherboard to something like the P5K Vanilla
 
Only thing I can see thinking about changing in addition to what others have said here is the XFX card to a EVGA card. Their step-up program is worth it in your situation since within the next 3 months (the program time) you can get the full price of your card towards a newer card. Talk is that there will be a newer card in Jan. :)
The 8800 GT is great but Crysis taxes it pretty well. I'll be stepin-up if a better card is out in Jan.
 
Alright, thanks for the input guys. I'll take a look around at some of the other sites to check prices.

Also, I have a question about Vista. Do I have to get Vista Ultimate in order to have the 64 bit version? Or does Home Premium have a 64 bit version?
 
OpTioN said:
Strong build, only thing I would change is the motherboard to something like the P5K Vanilla
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DS3L: $86
P5K: $127

Side-by-side: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...mpareItemList=N82E16813128059,N82E16813131180

So, for $41, you get an extra PCI-E 4.16x slot, Firewire, and 2 more SATA ports via the JMicron Controller (1x internal, 1x external). If you don't need those extra features, don't bother with the P5K.

loepa said:
Alright, thanks for the input guys. I'll take a look around at some of the other sites to check prices.

Also, I have a question about Vista. Do I have to get Vista Ultimate in order to have the 64 bit version? Or does Home Premium have a 64 bit version?
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Home Premium has a 64-bit version.
 
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