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If you live on top of a microcenter and buy a prebuilt, Outlanders torches will be the least of your problems. 
You monitor of choice (take some model numbers to mc and see what looks best to your eyes. $160
Get the i5 750 from mc $160
Get the 9800GTX+ above, that's a really great price. $100 Will be good enough for older games even at 1920x1080 and do okay on newer games. If you want to spend more, the GTX 260 was $140 at mc, which will fill out the rest of your budget.
Ram/Mobo combo newegg $185 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.264221
Gigabyte p55m-ud2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128405
Gskill 1600 cas 7 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231279
OCZ 600 stealthxstream at mc $45
Coolermaster storm scout case $80 (you can pick anyone you want really, there's budget to spend upto $125 or so if you wanted depending on the GPU you pick)
DVD burner at mc $25
HDD/OS combo $150 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] 22-152-181
Spinpoint F3 500gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152181
Win Vista w/ free win7 upgrade http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116677
Totals after mir (taxes not included, not sure what you're looking at there)
$905
You monitor of choice (take some model numbers to mc and see what looks best to your eyes. $160
Get the i5 750 from mc $160
Get the 9800GTX+ above, that's a really great price. $100 Will be good enough for older games even at 1920x1080 and do okay on newer games. If you want to spend more, the GTX 260 was $140 at mc, which will fill out the rest of your budget.
Ram/Mobo combo newegg $185 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.264221
Gigabyte p55m-ud2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128405
Gskill 1600 cas 7 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231279
OCZ 600 stealthxstream at mc $45
Coolermaster storm scout case $80 (you can pick anyone you want really, there's budget to spend upto $125 or so if you wanted depending on the GPU you pick)
DVD burner at mc $25
HDD/OS combo $150 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] 22-152-181
Spinpoint F3 500gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152181
Win Vista w/ free win7 upgrade http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116677
Totals after mir (taxes not included, not sure what you're looking at there)
$905
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Message edited by skora on 10-02-2009 at 05:26:43 AM
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If you live on top of a microcenter and buy a prebuilt, Outlanders torches will be the least of your problems.
You monitor of choice (take some model numbers to mc and see what looks best to your eyes. $160
Get the i5 750 from mc $160
Get the 9800GTX+ above, that's a really great price. $100 Will be good enough for older games even at 1920x1080 and do okay on newer games. If you want to spend more, the GTX 260 was $140 at mc, which will fill out the rest of your budget.
Ram/Mobo combo newegg $185 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.264221
Gigabyte p55m-ud2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128405
Gskill 1600 cas 7 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231279
OCZ 600 stealthxstream at mc $45
Coolermaster storm scout case $80 (you can pick anyone you want really, there's budget to spend upto $125 or so if you wanted depending on the GPU you pick)
DVD burner at mc $25
HDD/OS combo $150 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] 22-152-181
Spinpoint F3 500gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152181
Win Vista w/ free win7 upgrade http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116677
Totals after mir (taxes not included, not sure what you're looking at there)
$905
Message edited by skora on 10-02-2009 at 05:26:43 AM
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