Need Advice on Budget Gaming PC

[westham101]

Hi there need advice on parts for a gaming pc.

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 20th/September/2010

BUDGET RANGE: $1000-1100 Australian Dollars

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, Surfing the internet, General Usage

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse, speakers.

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: www.msy.com.au

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Australia

PARTS PREFERENCES: www.msy.com.au

OVERCLOCKING: No

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Possible Crossfire in the future but not yet

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1600 x 900

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Dont want any less then a 5850, also cant get GTX460 in australia no one stocks it

Here are my ideas already-
CPU: AMD AM3 Phenom II x4 955, 3.20GHz, Quad-Core. $190
Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD-EVO. $131
Graphics Card: HIS 1GB 5850 PCI-E VGA card $349
Hard Drive: SATA Seagate 500GB HDD . $52
Optical Drive: SATA Samsung Black DVD-RW. $25
RAM: G.Skill-NT 4GB DDR3 1333MHz. $120
Case: Antec 200v2 $65
Power Supply: Corsair TX-650watt $117
Total: All Parts $1049

Kind Regards,
Westham101

 

[Proximon]

I think you did pretty well given the parts list at MSY.

 

[ksampanna]

Good job.
The site is a pain to browse around.