Thanks for all the feedback! I've taken somewhat of a drastic turn in my build... I want to spend as little as possible now with the most upgrade potential for the future. Going to go with a cheap Pent D for now and try to keep my rig C2D ready. Scaling back on the vid card, as recommended. 1GB of ram for now.. Here's what I've got so far:
Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
ASUS P5NSLI Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Intel Edition ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD/512M GeForce 7600GS 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX450-PN, 12cm FAN, version 2.0, 2 SATA, PCI Express, 450W Power Supply - Retail
Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor Model BX80551PE2666FN - Retail
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) System Memory Model VS1GB667D2 - Retail
LG 16X DVD±R Super-Multi DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model GSA-H10N - OEM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional With SP2B 1 Pack - OEM
Left the HD out as I have a spare I can use. I don't plan on OCing. I already have a pretty nice monitor, so I'd like to be able to play in 1440x900 if possible. Toughest games I plan on running are Company of Heroes and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
Froogle the X1900XT 256MB, if you cant find it at the same price as your card then go for what you have.
I dont like TT PSUs, try Antec NeoHE series, theyve got much better specs.
Corsair 675 are great OCers but for the price you could go for a kit of OCZ Platinum Revision 2. Or pick another set of 667, all the ones with 4-4-4-12 will do a minimun of 400Mhz.
It looks good overall, I can tell you know what youre doing.
Scale back the GPU and run the 7900GTO while saving $250,
Scale back on the CPU and run the 6400+ and save another $93
You wont be able to tell the difference and with the extra $342 you can buy me lunch at La Cantina..........
I scaled back on the video card - in anticipation for the next gen. Also I would get a better Power Supply FSP is outstanding (but spendy). Make sure that whatever you get has been approved for the Antec Case. Stay with the better MB - do not make the mistake I did and get the Vanilla version. Not bad, but things could be better.
BTW - stock cooling isn't too bad with the P180B. My CPU is about 42C and MB is around 31C at load with no overclocking.
Scale back the GPU and run the 7900GTO while saving $250,
Scale back on the CPU and run the 6400+ and save another $93
You wont be able to tell the difference and with the extra $342 you can buy me lunch at La Cantina..........
I agree completely except this is the GFX Card you should get http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121031 No question the best deal amongst the bunch right now. (Performs as well as the 7900GTO and x1900xt 256... pretty dang close anyway)
Thanks for all the feedback! I've taken somewhat of a drastic turn in my build... I want to spend as little as possible now with the most upgrade potential for the future. Going to go with a cheap Pent D for now and try to keep my rig C2D ready. Scaling back on the vid card, as recommended. 1GB of ram for now.. Here's what I've got so far:
Antec Performance I P180B Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4 x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
ASUS P5NSLI Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI Intel Edition ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD/512M GeForce 7600GS 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX450-PN, 12cm FAN, version 2.0, 2 SATA, PCI Express, 450W Power Supply - Retail
Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Dual Core,EM64T Processor Model BX80551PE2666FN - Retail
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) System Memory Model VS1GB667D2 - Retail
LG 16X DVD±R Super-Multi DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model GSA-H10N - OEM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional With SP2B 1 Pack - OEM
Left the HD out as I have a spare I can use. I don't plan on OCing. I already have a pretty nice monitor, so I'd like to be able to play in 1440x900 if possible. Toughest games I plan on running are Company of Heroes and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
