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I'm looking to spend about 800 USD To Build a New Comp. I've been using a woefully slow Dimension 3000 still using a PCI graphics card. Ive built a few computer's for my friends, but nothing really fancy. Can someone rate this build. Im going for an 800 Base, but will be upgrading the case, and going to SLI before to long.

Current Price is $791 w/ Shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811147058 Case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148155 HD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130339 Graphics Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182076 Power Supply

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145184 RAM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835186134 Heatsink

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188024 Mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115037 Processor

Keyboard and Mouse and Such are taken care of. Will be playing games in 1440X900.

I'm looking to play some newer FPS's like CoD4 and Crysis, but also have a solid FPS playing an MMO like WoW or something.

I'm looking to upgrade this build to keep up with newer games as they come out. (Through SLI, or other such methods.)

My Question is this, How well will this build work.


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I'm too lazy to click all those links just to see the part names...

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Spend $11 more and get this RC-690 case. Then you won't need to upgrade the case later.
http://www.buy.com/prod/cooler-mas [...] 77908.html

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Some pretty poor choices. Here's another build, same price $785 and $13 shipping to me.

Case - Antec 300 $55 with free shipping, so the same price as the Rosewill with more room, better cooling.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811129042

Power supply - Antec EA 650wcombo deal with the case for $10 off. Higher quality, more power for eventual crossfire. $55 after combo deal
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817371015

CPU - E8500 $185 features combo deal with motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115036

Motherboard - Gigabyte P45 UD3P $94 after rebate and combo deal features 8x/8x crossfire
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128358

GPU - HD4850 Outperforms the 9800GT by a good margin, can be used on a crossfire intel board instead of a Nvidia board. $140 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814261027

HD - western digital 640GB SATA - price/performance/storage at $75
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136218

RAM - 2x2 GB DDR2 800 1.8v 5-4-4-12 timings $65 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146731

HSF - Sunbeam core contact $25 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835207004

Burner - Liteon SATA combo - $24
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827106100

Same price as your build, but in all cases will outperform it with fewer hassles


Message edited by dirtmountain on 10-28-2008 at 06:00:22 PM
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Thanks for the input dirt. Like I said, I am confident in the assembly aspect, but a little lacking in part awareness. This build is going to allow me room to upgrade later on without a completely new build.

Reply to Salix
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Now that's a great build. :)

Add more fans when/if you add the second video card.

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