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Hey Guys, I wud like ur opinion on my build here. I live in india and all the old core components are very cheap and the latest are over priced.the peripherals too are very high compared to the their counterparts in US. I wud like a moderate gaming rig which can play like NFS and GTA (even nxt editions in the future). i'm in no particular hurry and i plan on buying in Dec.

Shud i wait for DX10 cards or not? will they b below $250?

Processor: 1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

2) Intel Pentium D 950 Dual Core Processor
(3.4GHz, 4MB, 800MHz FSB, Socket 775 )

2)*Motherboard: Asus A8N-E Motherboard (nForce 4)
P5RD2VM


3)*RAM: 2GB ( 2 x 1Gb) (333 Mhz)

4)*Graphics Card : Nvidia 7600 GT(PCI-E ) 256MB
Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB

5)*Logitech Cordless Desktop



6)*DVD burner: Sony DRU-820A (16X DVD, 48X CD)

7)*HDD: Seagate barracuda 250GB (Internal)


9)*TV tuner card: ATi TV wonder elite



10)*Monitor: 1)Samsung 19" LCD


11)*Speakers:
1) Logitech X-530 5.1
2)Creative G-500 5.1


15)Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic (PCI )

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AMD...The X2 3800+ will do damage to that P4. 7600GT. Save money, forget the sound card. Upgrade the memory to 400Mhz, possible 7900GT.

~Ibrahim~


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