$700

$700 is a rather limited budget for a gaming system, but you should be able to get a decent gamer with:

- standard NF4 board (non-Ultra, non SLI) for $85 (Jetway, Epox, MSI)

- 3500+ for about $220

- 6800GS/PCIe for about $195 on sale (If you had another $85 to spare, find a 7800GT on sale; video is most important in gaming system)

- 1 gb DDR Corsair Value $100 (add another 1 GB later)

FInd a 120GB 7200 rpm drive on sale at CompUSA for $39 or less; there will be no WD 10kRPM Raptors on this budget

Find a 400-450 watt PS from Antec or Enermax for $45, and slap it in whatever $30 case you can find

Reuse a CD ROM drive from a previous build, or find a used one for $10, or get a new generic DVD ROM for $29 or so...(I've found DVD RW drives for $29 at Fry's before)

Build it, and enjoy!
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(Haven't you already spec'd out similar systems in previous posts? THe next steps are actually buying the parts,assembling it, and using it!

On a side note, can you OC yor K8N Neo4 to higher than 215 MHz???

Mine doesn't appear to like it, despite the latest MB bios, no matter what mem freq, HTT multiplier, cpu core voltage, or even if a lower cpu multiplier is used ...

215? FIne.....216? SUx! :-)

Well, here goes:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148040
$59.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813127222
$92.99 (Probably catch heat for this)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814131423
$194.00 (on sale, limited)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817153023
$39.99 (After Mail-in rebate, Probably catch heat for this)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835100007
$5.99 (This stuff is a must)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145440
$77.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103535
$169.00 (Probably catch heat for this)

http://www.newegg.com/product/Prod [...] 6827106014
$40.99 (It's on sale and it comes with a 25 pack of DVDs)

I like Abit boards, but I'm sure there are others that will work just fine. Of note, it is an Ultra board. Ya, the Venice is showing it's age, but there's plenty of headroom to upgrade the proc. in the future. I've owned several Lite-Ons and have never had an issue with them, but there's plenty of other good choices in that same price range. You didn't ask about a case, which can severely affect prices. Ditto for an OS. This will probably hit $700.00 on the dot with shipping.

Ooops...forgot to note. I'm not up to date on PSUs, so the Thermaltake was more or less a throw in.