2,000 dollar budget ideas?

[boomheadshot45]

hello i am new here and i have to say that these foums have been very helpful... anyway.... I am building a new computer soon and i have about a 2,000 dollar budget.
Few points
1. I do not know how to oc but if someone knows how to please teach me
2. This is including a montior, i will probaly buy like a 250 $ benq or something like that
3. This will be for gaming and some surfing the web and word documents
4. I know that their has been some problems with dual cores but if people know how to fix them.. please tell me

thats probaly it.

Thanks you for taking your time to read this and i hope you have a nice day.

 

[shadowduck]

hello i am new here and i have to say that these foums have been very helpful... anyway.... I am building a new computer soon and i have about a 2,000 dollar budget.
Few points
1. I do not know how to oc but if someone knows how to please teach me
2. This is including a montior, i will probaly buy like a 250 $ benq or something like that
3. This will be for gaming and some surfing the web and word documents
4. I know that their has been some problems with dual cores but if people know how to fix them.. please tell me

thats probaly it.

Thanks you for taking your time to read this and i hope you have a nice day.

I am guessing thats $2000 USD- lets build you a system!

Total: $2001.34 (yeah baby $1 over!) includes shipping by the way

Opteron 165- $327.00
DFI Lanparty Ultra D- $122
2GB Corsair XMS RAM DDR-400- Twinx2048-3200c2pt- $189.00 before $50 MIR
74GB Raptor Hard drive for OS/Progs- $160.00
250GB Maxtor SATA 3.0gbs hard drive- $88.00
Lite-on DVD Burner- $35.99
Antec P180 Case- $114.99
Antec Truepower 2.0 550W PSU- $99 before $20 MIR
256MB eVGA 7900GT video card- $319.00
Windows XP Pro SP2 OEM- $144
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - $106.99
BenQ FP91G+ Black 19" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail
Model #: FP91G+- $239.99

Enjoy!

Edit: From newegg of course
Edit2: There are several good overclocking guides on the Net and in these forums. You can easily get the 165 to 2.4GHz or beyond.

 

[k2000k]

Type overclocking guide in google and you'll get some suggestions.