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mash

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Ok, I'm building a new PC soon instead of getting a 360. I want to be able to play recent FPS games smoothly and at nice settings. Here's the parts, the main things I was pretty clueless about was the PSU and the mobo. I'm getting the OS elsewhere.

Case- Thermaltake Tsunami

PSU- FSP 400W

Processor- AMD Athlon 64 3200+

Mobo- DFI nF4 SLI

Vid Card- eVGA Geforce 6800GT

Memory- Corsair Valuselect 1GB

HDD- Hitachi Deskstar 80GB

DVD Burner- Sony 16X


LMK what changes you would make. It totals at $890.94.
 
Let's see...I'd bring the case down to a Coolermaster Centurion 5, and the video card down to a 6800GS, which performs almost a well as the 6800GT for only 200$. With the savings, kick up the PSU to the 450w FSP model and grab 2GB of this. I'd also consider grabbing the NEC 3550A rather than the Sony drive.
 
GForce64 said:
Let's see...I'd bring the case down to a Coolermaster Centurion 5, and the video card down to a 6800GS, which performs almost a well as the 6800GT for only 200$. With the savings, kick up the PSU to the 450w FSP model and grab 2GB of this. I'd also consider grabbing the NEC 3550A rather than the Sony drive.
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Are you considering SLI in the future? If not, grab the Chaintech VNF4/Ultra for the mobo.
 
If you are going to go with a VNF4 - watch out, make sure you have an extra NIC card laying around somewhere. I put Windows on my PC (VNF4/3500+/6800GT) and after the VERY FIRST reboot the onboard NIC dissapeared. Does not happen to everyone, but there are people are having that problem. Besides that - the board is great, works fine with that eVGA 6800GT you picked. (Damn NVIDIA released a card that does as good as my GT for almost $100 less, two weeks after I poot my PC together... Grrr :mad: )
Up to you...

Good luck
 
Much better. The only thing I'd change now is the HD. Hitachi is pretty low on the quality ladder. You might want to get a Maxtor from ZZF instead.
 
The switch between RAM and GPU is really up to you. More RAM will help with load times and if you do graphics stuff. A better GPU will help with graphics. I'd personally get more RAM, but like I said, it's up to you. And again, get this HD.
 
I think I'd rather go with an upgraded vid card, simply because RAM is much easier to upgrade.
 
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