Help needed with $1000 gaming build

[Jared_AKA_God]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within 1 or 2 weeks
BUDGET RANGE: US $1000 - $1050 / NZ $1500 - $1600

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, watching movies, surfing the web, school work

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Monitor (providing a 32" LG High definition tv will serve me well for gaming)

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Pricespy.co.nz

PARTS PREFERENCES: No preference

OVERCLOCKING: No

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION: Whatever a 32" LG TV is

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I've had a good look through and done my research and i think come up with everything minus the cpu, motherboard and ram. I'm open for suggestions on the current selection too
All prices converted to US dollars even though i'll be buying from New Zealand so keep that in mind (often prices vary largely here)

Case: Antec Nine Hundred Tower Gaming Case Side
Window Black 200mm Top fan
-$132+ approx $7 shipping

PSU: Cooler Master 650W eXtreme Power Plus SLI Silent
12cm Fan PSU Model Number RS-650-PCAR-E3
-$91.10 + approx $7 shipping

HDD: Western Digital CAVIAR 1TB SATA2 7200rpm 32MB Cache
-$90 + approx $7 shipping

Optical: Samsung SH-S223F SATA 22x DVD-RW
-$33 + approx $7 shipping

Graphics Card: HighTech ATI HD4890 PCI-E 2.0 1GB
-$224 + approx $7 shipping

Total: $605USD/$1000USD or $900/$1500 NZD without the cpu, ram and motherboard

Any help is much appreciated, thanks everyone

 

[Outlander_04]

I dont believe in you jared

god should be omnipotent , and clearly you are not


now go tell us if that tv is 720 p or 1080 p

Its important

and what is your total budget in NZ dollars? . Im not omnipotent either and you have me completely confused right now

 

[Jared_AKA_God]

I'm sure i'll live if you don't believe in me
Budget in NZ dollars is stated up there with the budget in US dollars my friend, $1500 - $1600 NZ.
My TV which i'll be using as a monitor is 1080P.
Thanks for the input

 

[Outlander_04]

I'm sure i'll live if you don't believe in me
Budget in NZ dollars is stated up there with the budget in US dollars my friend, $1500 - $1600 NZ.
My TV which i'll be using as a monitor is 1080P.
Thanks for the input

Im glad you can stretch it to $1600
its much easier just to work in kiwi dollars

So

your

hard drive
case
4890
dvd

ditch the PSU for an antec earthwatts 650w which is the cheapest decent 650 watt psu

Its not worth buying the last of intels C2Quads and you cant afford i7/i5 so the cpu

AMD Phenom X4 945
gigabyte 770T-UD3P
cant do crossfire , but then you wont need it any time soon with a 4890 and a 1080p panel

G.SKILL 4GB kit (2GB x 2) DDR3-1333
http://www.uec.co.nz/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=25944
we dont have a great range of ddr3 ram but this is about the best cost/performance available at $135
timing 8-8-8-21 and 1.65 volts is pretty good

Total ~ 1575

no , dont be tempted by the cheaper cm psu its rubbish in a box

I like the antec 300 more .That would bring you under $1500

 

[Jared_AKA_God]

Cheers, looks good so far. Out of curiosity how much would it cost/ would it be worth it to pump it up to a 955 with 6gb of ddr3 ram?

 

[Outlander_04]

Cheers, looks good so far. Out of curiosity how much would it cost/ would it be worth it to pump it up to a 955 with 6gb of ddr3 ram?

6 gig ram kits are for intel triple channel motherboards . And this site did an article a while back on how much ram systems need to perform . They used 3, 6 and 12 gig and basically got a a tiny gain when they went from 3-6 gig and nothing at all when they used more
4 gig is plenty so a 2 x2 gig kit is what you want

The Phenom 955 is the exact same part as a 945 but its clocked 200 MHz higher . If you read the overclocking guides on this site you will see its very easy to make that adjustment yourself so paying $80 NZ extra is a bit dubious

You'd probably want to add a better cpu cooler at some stage if you plan on overclocking much more than that