New Budget!

[7_vii_7]

well guys looks like my budget is going to be $1200 now.

ugh...

so I am going for this

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice
MoBo - EPOX EP-9NPA+SLI
Memory - Corsair VS1GBKIT400 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 CAS2.5 or CAS3.0
Hard Drive - Western Digital WD Caviar WD800JD
Video Card - XFX PVT42GUAD GeForce 6800 GS PCI Express 256MB
DVD/RW - Pioneer Black IDE DVD/RW DVR-110DBK
Windows - XP Professional

PS/Case - ?????
Monitor - ?????


what else do you recommend?

 

[Jagger]

I had a basic Raidmax case that came with a 420W PSU. It think it was $50.

Fair word of warning, the PSU blew out after one year.

 

[zoridon]

Tiger Direct has good deals on 19 inch LCD's after rebates. I bought two myself fromt them and have had no problems. If your going to play games on this computer I'd up to a 7800 gt. XFX has a good game bundle with their card. If your going to play BF2 I'd go with 2 gigs of ram as well

 

[smirkus]

looks good, but save $$$ and get XP Home edition--unless you are using this to connect remotely, you really don't need pro at all--check out microsoft.com, where they do a comparison chart for you--pro seems excellent if you are a buissiness man, besides that, its seems totally unneeded--there is a reason one is called 'HOME' and the other 'PRO' Both editions work exctly the same.