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Alright,this is my first time posting here so forgive me if I do this wrong please. I fear I am trying to cut too many corners. I have not built a PC in years but my Dell tower is on its last legs, so I went to new egg and spec'd out a build. Could someone review my build and let me know if I got this right please? The idea here was for a good gamming experiance (Wowcrack head here) for World of Warcraft. Also I use the comp for school and business (Electronical Engineering and tech)

Processor: Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Motherboard: Asus P5N7A-VM LGA 775 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


Power Supply: OCZ StealthxStream 700SXS 700W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

System Memory: Corsair 8Gb (4 x 2Gb) 240 oin ddr3 SDRAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

PC Fan: Thermaltake Spin Q PerfprmanceSeries Cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Not Sure whether a seperate Vid card is absolutely necessary. I know that there is major system draw on a built into the board however so if a vid card is necessary I have spec'd
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 512-P3-N954-TR Video Card - Retail
GeForce 9500 GT
512MB GDDR2
PCI Express 2.0 x16


Video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Hard drive: Seagate 7200.11 500 gb sata 7200 rpm w/32 Mb cache. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
All in a coolmaster Tower with a bottom mount PSU slot, a fan under and behund the opwer supply to eliminate as much PS heat as possible. This is because the Mother board is reportredly vert hot running. Lots of fans on this one I guess just to be safe.

Thank you in advance for any advice:) 

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That's not the motherboard i'd use in a budget E5200 build, a P45 would really be a better choice. I'd also use 2x2GB DDR2 800 RAM instead of 8GB of DDR3 RAM (it's still a poor value)
For WoW i'd really recommend a discrete graphic card. The 9500GT DDR2 one you picked is a pretty poor choice, even at the $45 price after rebate. You'd get better performance with a HD4670, 9600GT, HD4830 for a reasonable (@$30) increase in price. You should look at the last 3 System Builder Marathon builds at the $625 area for some good suggestions at a budget price.

Ahhh Excellent question and one I asked the networking guy at work when I origianlly spec'd a 400W and was advised to go with the 700W for any possibly future expansions.

Also, no overclocking at this point, don't really see a need in the build so good to know I'm on the right track. Now I need to add a dvd +/- rw and price out a nice 19" LCD.

About the video card, should I go with the PCI slot card or can I get away with the on board nvidia on the motherboard despit the drawbacks to this.

I will price out a corsair 400W Power supply and thanks for the heads up;)
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That's not the motherboard i'd use in a budget E5200 build, a P45 would really be a better choice. I'd also use 2x2GB DDR2 800 RAM instead of 8GB of DDR3 RAM (it's still a poor value)
For WoW i'd really recommend a discrete graphic card. The 9500GT DDR2 one you picked is a pretty poor choice, even at the $45 price after rebate. You'd get better performance with a HD4670, 9600GT, HD4830 for a reasonable (@$30) increase in price. You should look at the last 3 System Builder Marathon builds at the $625 area for some good suggestions at a budget price.


I actually looked at this board first but again I was going to cut the corners a little with the built in vid card. You bring up an excellent combination adn I will check out the post. Thank you!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $59.95
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $59.99 ($39.99 after $20.00 Mail-In Rebate) Free Shipping*
CORSAIR CMPSU-400CX 400W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $72.99 Free Shipping*
Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $98.99
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3L LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $44.99 Free Shipping*
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $89.99 ($79.99 after $10.00 Mail-In Rebate)
MSI R4830-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4830 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $64.99 Free Shipping*
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $23.99
LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $6.99
ARCTIC COOLING MX-2 Thermal Compound - Retail

Total $522.87 + shipping
$492.87 w/mail in rebates

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... $99.99 Free Shipping*
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders - OEM






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