Critique of Proposed Build Vid Card Recommendation

[RRnTexas]

Aiming to build a screaming game machine with move to DX10 in a year or so (when Visa is more mature). Though I have done some research, I would very much appreciate ANY feedback or comments y’all might have on this build. Plan to do some mild over clocking as well.

Main components:

Case - $155
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Computer Case, with Top 200mm and 120mm TriCool Fans, Top USB, Firewire Access.
http://www.directron.com/ninehundred.html

Motherboard - $258
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard – Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188009

Memory - $285
CORSAIR XMS2 DOMINATOR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145168

Power Supply - $140
Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 ATX12V 650W Power Supply with Three 12V Rails 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, C-tick, CCC, CB - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817371001

CPU - $316
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003

Hard disk – $125
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD 400GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144423

Optical Drive - $45
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache ATAPI/E-IDE DVD Burner With LightScribe - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106015


Also, I would appreciate suggestions for a Graphics card. I do not plan to SLI initially – probably in a year or so with move to DX10. I would like to keep cost of card ~$200ish.

Thanks in advance for your help!

RR

 

[drummerdude]

7900gs, x1950pro, or a little more x1950xt. link for 1st two cards

 

[rickpcnerd]

Why not get two 250 or 200gb drives and set them in raid 0 at the same price. Hard Drives will be mush faster. ATI 1900 or 1950 will be your best choice, since these ati cards have a much better image quality than nvidia cards (except 8800). These cards are capable of running Anti liasing and HDR at the same time wish will give quality image with straight lines. some thing that nvidia is not capable of doing. Nvidia only runs these one at a time.

$187.03 w/tax and shipping
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO Video Card
http://www.directron.com/100437807.html

 

[sirrobin4ever]

Only a few little things:

1. Try to get a SATA DVD burner. No, it won't have better performance or anything, but will be more compatible with future systems. The price should be about the same as what you have now.

2. As for the Video card, this is a good deal. If I had PCI-e (stuck w/AGP ) I would buy one of these...


Best of Luck

 

[miribus]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...onnect3d&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
A steal at $215, 200 after rebate.
Get it while you can, though you might want to pony up an extra $20 and get a quieter cooler like the accelleroX2
In case the link doesn't work it's the
Connect3d X1900XT 256.
It lags just ever so barely behind the x1900xt 512 and even the xtx, even at
a decent 1400x900 widescreen resolution.

 

[RRnTexas]

Thanks bunches for the outstanding advice!

Could someone suggest a good SATA DVD burner?

Thanks again,

RR

 

[sirrobin4ever]

Here's one. It seems to be out of stock, but its on Newegg, so it should be back in a day or two. Lite-On DVD-RW

Best of Luck