Alright so I am going to build a new machine for my wife. Main thing for her is World of Warcraft. Will be running WoW, Ventrillo, quite possibly pandora and sometimes another Firefox browser or 2 open. The tower she has now is a 939 single core with 1.5GB mem and a 8600GT video card. Nothing amazing now days. My wife really likes the Lian Li case the computer is in so will be keeping that. I have already ordered EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP for my video card. There are two builds I'm looking at are an AM3 the other is a Core 2. Just need some advice as its been a while since I have built a machine. Budget wise I am looking $750 or less minus a video card and case. I would also like it to last 3+ years like the last one.
Both builds I have the following parts
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive $70
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit $99
Arctic Silver AA-1.75G Thermal Compound $4 Think I may have some around still... Not sure if it goes bad over time.
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC $100
Not sure if I need the PSU or not. The one in the old tower is Antec Neo Power 500 500W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply.
AM3 Build
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 DDR3 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard $140
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $245
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit $60
Total $753.93 with a rebate and no combo deals selected from newegg
Core 2
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor $168
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard $135
Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel $56
Total $667.92 Again rebates and no combos selected
Any help or suggestions you can give would be awesome.
Both builds I have the following parts
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive $70
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit $99
Arctic Silver AA-1.75G Thermal Compound $4 Think I may have some around still... Not sure if it goes bad over time.
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC $100
Not sure if I need the PSU or not. The one in the old tower is Antec Neo Power 500 500W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply.
AM3 Build
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 DDR3 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard $140
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $245
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit $60
Total $753.93 with a rebate and no combo deals selected from newegg
Core 2
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor $168
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard $135
Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel $56
Total $667.92 Again rebates and no combos selected
Any help or suggestions you can give would be awesome.