I have been out of the PC building game for quite awhile. My last build was a Athlon 2600+ system if that gives you any idea
I have read through numerous boards and coming to the point of finalizing my build. It is as follows:
Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
PSU: mushkin HP-580AP ATX12V / EPS12V 580W
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x 2 for 4GB total
Motherboard: ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel P965
Video: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache x 2 for 500GB
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M
Media: SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write
Cooler: Scythe SCINF-1000 120mm CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Monitor: SCEPTRE x22wg-Gamer Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen HDMI LCD Monitor
It will be a 75% gaming PC and used for productivity type stuff (word, excel) the rest of the time. I am thinking of doing a dual boot Vista/XP on the system. It will be moderate in the overclocking department. I have never over clocked before but I am going to try to learn. Budget is around 2200-2300. I was also going to go with RAID 0 but having read some things that it doesnt effect gaming FPS or load times I am now thinking against it. Let me know what you think.
I have read through numerous boards and coming to the point of finalizing my build. It is as follows:
Case: Thermaltake Armor Series VA8000BWS Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
PSU: mushkin HP-580AP ATX12V / EPS12V 580W
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x 2 for 4GB total
Motherboard: ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel P965
Video: EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache x 2 for 500GB
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M
Media: SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write
Cooler: Scythe SCINF-1000 120mm CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Monitor: SCEPTRE x22wg-Gamer Black 22" 5ms DVI Widescreen HDMI LCD Monitor
It will be a 75% gaming PC and used for productivity type stuff (word, excel) the rest of the time. I am thinking of doing a dual boot Vista/XP on the system. It will be moderate in the overclocking department. I have never over clocked before but I am going to try to learn. Budget is around 2200-2300. I was also going to go with RAID 0 but having read some things that it doesnt effect gaming FPS or load times I am now thinking against it. Let me know what you think.