Want To Build A New Computer under $700

you are kidding, right?

you'll be lucky if that build lasts 9 months.

I think he's probably referring to the Diablotek power supply, it's a low quality one.

Here's an alternate AMD build, it provides a faster CPU, overclockable motherboard (Intel brand boards don't overclock well) , crossfire capable, better hard drive, faster graphic card and a much higher quality power supply. Under $700 even with shipping.

CPU/mobo combo $205
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.205337

RAM - 2x2 GB DDR3 $73
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146868

PSU - PC Power and Cooling 750w $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703009

Case - Rosewill Windknight $60 and free shipping
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811147135

Graphic - XFX HD4870 1 GB $147
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150394

HD - WD 640 GB caviar black $75
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136319

burner - Liteon SATA $28
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827106291

$687 not counting shipping ($16 to me) or rebates.

Thank you very much! I just read something that said a 4870 is faster than a GTX 260, which is way faster than what I wanted before.

www.zipzoomfly.com also packages their hard drives in a nice little foam enclosure instead of just wrapping it in bubble wrap and hoping for the best.

I agree with the Corsair PSU, although you could get by with a smaller unit - 550w is more than ample for the system you plan or 650w to add plenty of room for expansion.

I prefer the Corsair PSU primarily because of sound levels. The P&C Silencer is the Rolls Royce of PSUs, althought I have seen contradictory info about noise issues. I have seen online reviews at respected sights reporting noticeable noise - and then others reporting the noise at the normal level and some forum posters stating emhatically that there is no noticeable noise.

You might want to become familiar with silentpcreview.com whose purpose is self explanatory. About the PC Silencer 610 they report:

The acoustic performance is fairly good, staying modest in our test setup till well past 300W, which is about as high a peak load as you'll encounter in a sane quiet PC. Above this power level, the fan noise rose to a higher level than any other PSU tested in recent memory. It's a moot point as anything above 30 dBA@1m or so is simply too loud, but the fan behavior is indicative of a decision to keep the unit well-cooled, especially at higher load, even at the cost of higher noise.

Heres the link to the page with the quote (which also includes some nice graphs):

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article864-page4.html

I've been pissed off at PC power ever since the lies about modular psu's they tried to bestow on everybody. On top of that, OCZ is in charge of the company now. P&C is no longer the same company is it?

A 4850 or GTS 250 would be fine for that.

Don't buy from tigerdirect, they are inflating prices.

Are you canadian? if so use NCIX... if you are american, Newegg and NCIXUS are the store you should look into.

NCIX got a price match policy allowing you to get the price of the competition. I have said hundreds of $ because of that policy and their RMA department is fantastic.

For that price, I would get a

Phenom II X3 720BE
Asus motherboard
2X2GIG of cheap DDR3
1 TB hard drive
4870 graphic card
a corsair or OCZ power supply 600W minimum

Well both of those cards can play anything at 1280x1024, that resolution is more cpu dependent. But you might as well get that 4870 because it's not much more. Price to performance is better for it.

This is similar to the old argument about Quad vs Dual core, problem is CUDA isn't easy to program for and if the software companies don't see where it's cost effective they aren't going to do it. Buying into new technology is usually a waste of money for consumers at first.