New gaming system.. help! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I

well its about time for me to put together a new system. im looking to spend around 1k, and have already nailed down some items (case, hd, monitor) but i need some help in the components aspect of things. ive been out of building comps for about 6 years so im a bit behind the game. any insight or advice is welcome and needed.

heres a few ?'s.

intel or adm?
im thinking http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115036

mobo - kinda lost here, looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 813131284R

vid card -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130370

and im needing help on a bang for your buck ram and psu.

im at around $600 right now. i know im gonna wait for sli, my case is plenty big for the upgrades, but any help would be great. thanks!

thanks. some good info. any others?

I've ordered an open box motherboard in the past and it worked beautifully, even came with everything from the retail version. If you actually research open box motherboards from newegg(as I did before ordering one) you'll pretty much find nothing but good comments.
That said if you have $1000 to play with it really shouldn't be necessary.

or would a 1k budget be good to go with an i7 setup? just kinda shooting int he dark as far as mobo packages go for. Im thinking a duel core over the quad, just for practicality purposes

It's definitely possible to go i7 for $1000 but you might have to cut corners a bit elsewhere. The CPU would be $300, motherboard about $250 and 3 gigs of DDR3 is about $100.
That leaves $350 for the case/PSU, video card, hard drive and burner. If you are set on a GTX 260+ I'd think you'll need to bump the budget up to $1100 or so

I gave you exactly what you need above in my post.

The 8500 for that price is not worth it. You can get the Q6600 for 10 dollars more and get a quad core that easily will overclock to 3.2-3.6 with the motherboard I suggested. The motherboard you're looking at is $288 and is not worth it since you're buying older technology, you could buy an x58 for that price.

like x48 or x58? or is there not that huge of a deficit

alright, thanks. eventually i'd want to SLI, so what x58 board would you suggest?

and im really in the dark about ram, was thinking
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145214

maybe 2 orders of that, 8gb total, idk though. thoughts?

great. thanks for all the help, its much appreciated. ive got my rig all set and ready to order!

one more question, are the x58 boards the only ones that are SLI ready for the gtx 260's?

Yeah you can't use any of the stuff that you've posted with an X58 board, so hopefully you aren't going with one.

that gigabyte board looks pretty solid too - owned one in the past that served me pretty well. coupling that with the corsair ram - good idea or bad? after i determine this i'll list all the things im getting for further scrutiny

with that board - best bang for your buck ati gfx card?

looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824236051

You'd want an H4870 1 gig version for gaming on that at its native resolution.

Looks good.

Didn't see that one strangely enough, definitely get that one.

Depends on how you look at it. The cooling solution appears to be similar, but Sapphire does not label those as vapor-X, and the heatpipes are not copper, or perhaps plated.

You also get more software with the toxic versions.

I would say it's a toss-up, so would depend on how much money you have to spend. Don't get the toxic version for the overclocking, as that makes little actual difference.

With free shipping and the rebate, the stock version is better. The toxic would end up costing $50 more, which is not worth it for some software, most of which you could download online I'm sure, and a very mild overclock. The difference in the clock would probably cancel the difference in the copper heat pipes and get you similar temps, with very minimal performance boost.

impressive.