System coming together. Last decisions.

[Lomic]

Building my computer tonight since I couldn't pass up a good power supply deal - nudged me over the edge and now I'm ordering everything. It's a lengthy process since I live in California so I have to stop around to avoid sales tax. I'll be overclocking this sucker into the ground.

Here's what I've purchased so far:

Intel Core 2 Duo e6400
eVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Crucial 2x1gb PC5400 DDR2 Tenth Anniversary
Antec P180b Case
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w PSU
Seagate 7200.10 320gb SATA HDD
NEC ND-3550A DVD/RW
Tuniq Tower (if I can find it for reasonable price, should have ordered yesterday!

My last decision is Video Card/Monitor. Obviously my gamer brain is screaming for 8800GTS+Dell 2407FPW as I'm still on my noble 17" CRT. I'd then step up to a GTX in 3 months and get SLI when called for.

On the other hand, the only game I really want to play right now (besides the BF2 I play) is NWN2 which I've heard has some iffy graphics code so I'd consider waiting a patch or two to play it. Other games like FEAR, Prey etc. I can wait another few months, they aren't going anywhere.

So the rational side of me says to get a eVGA 7900GT and wait for the G80 market to cool down to step up in 3 months. There will also be more competition in the 24" market by then which should cause those prices to drop.

Money is kinda an object... in that I have it - but I'm a cheap bastard and really have to justify my purchases to myself.

Thanks folks.

 

[Adidas4275]

I would get a 7900gt at the minimum or a GTO or a 7950gt I am sure you can find some used for a great price..... they will all do fine for BF2, not sure on a 24" LCD, to run everything turned on i think 2x7900gt s would be needed. Dont know but my 7800gtx does have enough to keep my 19" at full res with AAx16 and AFx8s i get around 30fps which is to low for me...


everything looks good though

 

[Lomic]

While I agree used cards can be a good deal, I wouldn't be able to use eVGA step-up with a used card, so I feel it would be a waste of money.

 

[Adidas4275]

i understand but from what i have seen/heard (since i dont have an evga card) that the used value can be more than the step up value... but yeah.. just dont know if a 7900gt is good enough

 

[Lomic]

Oh, if I get a 7900 I'll stick with my CRT a while longer, so it will suffice for anything I'd play at 1280x1024. I'm only getting the 24" if I get the 8800. Basically looking for comments on buying the whole package now or waiting for things to cool down since there's not much I'm chomping at the bit to play game wise.