Hello! I am planning to build a gaming computer for my husband for Father's Day. I have done some research and have read a lot of the forum posts here (they helped a lot....thanks), but I wanted to run this build by everyone before buying the components. My husband will be playing UT3 and I will be doing some light photo editing and general internet stuff.
Please let me know what you think of the components I have selected and if you think there is something else that may work better. I am hoping everything will fit in the case. I am pretty sure I have the correct Mhz, but maybe I am not seeing something right. Oh, I am trying to stay around $1000 or so (not including gaming keyboard, mouse, monitor and OS).
So here is what I have picked out so far:
APEVIA X-CRUISER-GN Green Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i FTW SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
EVGA 01G-P3-N869-AR GeForce 9600GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply 100 - 240 V - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Thermaltake CL-P0401 110mm Full-Range Fan CPU Cooler - Retail
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Lite-On LH-20A1L-06 SuperAllwrite Retail Lightscribe DVD Burner - 20x DVD±R Burn, 16x DVD±R Read, Black, SATA
I look forward to any and all help. Thanks so much!
Please let me know what you think of the components I have selected and if you think there is something else that may work better. I am hoping everything will fit in the case. I am pretty sure I have the correct Mhz, but maybe I am not seeing something right. Oh, I am trying to stay around $1000 or so (not including gaming keyboard, mouse, monitor and OS).
So here is what I have picked out so far:
APEVIA X-CRUISER-GN Green Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i FTW SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
EVGA 01G-P3-N869-AR GeForce 9600GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply 100 - 240 V - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Thermaltake CL-P0401 110mm Full-Range Fan CPU Cooler - Retail
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Lite-On LH-20A1L-06 SuperAllwrite Retail Lightscribe DVD Burner - 20x DVD±R Burn, 16x DVD±R Read, Black, SATA
I look forward to any and all help. Thanks so much!