Hi,
I've been wanting to put together my own pc forever, but a little nervous about doing it. I figure it's about time..
I want to try and keep my current computer together, if possible, though I'm certain I'll take the dvd-burner out of this one to put into the new one (and replace it with a generic dvd-drive), I already have speakers and a monitor and want this new one for basically just gaming, FEAR, HL2 Doom 3, Quake 4, and would love to pick up Oblivion if it'll run well on what I put together.
This is what I have in mind so far
AMD X2 3800+ cpu
ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo
7900GT (just 1 for now)
X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard
Antec Truepower 2.0 550w psu
1 gig of Corsair ValueSelect RAM
And a pair of SATA HD's to Raid 0
Not sure about what case to get to be honest.. I'd like a cool looking one with a see-through window, but air flow is more important.
If possible I'd like to bring the build in for about 1200-1300 but even less would be better. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going over right now actually.. nope, positive of that. But how does what I have sound so far though? I'm up for ANY advice or suggestions.. and I really don't know if I should go for SLI or not, and thinking about it is giving me a massive headache to be honest.. i mean is it worth getting an SLI mobo for just 1 graphic card and the possibility to upgrade to 2 later? maybe when even better graphic cards are out?
I actually tried asking for help on the pcgamer forum, but I think I almost started a flame war when it came to the SLI vs Single Card set up.
I've been wanting to put together my own pc forever, but a little nervous about doing it. I figure it's about time..
I want to try and keep my current computer together, if possible, though I'm certain I'll take the dvd-burner out of this one to put into the new one (and replace it with a generic dvd-drive), I already have speakers and a monitor and want this new one for basically just gaming, FEAR, HL2 Doom 3, Quake 4, and would love to pick up Oblivion if it'll run well on what I put together.
This is what I have in mind so far
AMD X2 3800+ cpu
ASUS A8N32-SLI mobo
7900GT (just 1 for now)
X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard
Antec Truepower 2.0 550w psu
1 gig of Corsair ValueSelect RAM
And a pair of SATA HD's to Raid 0
Not sure about what case to get to be honest.. I'd like a cool looking one with a see-through window, but air flow is more important.
If possible I'd like to bring the build in for about 1200-1300 but even less would be better. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going over right now actually.. nope, positive of that. But how does what I have sound so far though? I'm up for ANY advice or suggestions.. and I really don't know if I should go for SLI or not, and thinking about it is giving me a massive headache to be honest.. i mean is it worth getting an SLI mobo for just 1 graphic card and the possibility to upgrade to 2 later? maybe when even better graphic cards are out?
I actually tried asking for help on the pcgamer forum, but I think I almost started a flame war when it came to the SLI vs Single Card set up.