Is this system ok?

Yes if you have a large budget. If you want even more performance from your HD you can get 2 identical SATA drives and run them using RAID 0, make sure your mobo supports it.
If you wan't to skimp a little you can take a P4 2.8, a Radeon 9800pro and only 1 gig of RAM.

Is 2^33634943-1 prime? (more than 10Mil digits @73.31%) I will know in 10 days when <A HREF="http://www.mersenne.org" target="_new">Prime95</A> finishes checking!

If you're spending that kinda money go with I875 chipset instead of the i865. I would also second getting a second raptor drive and striping them togeather. The 2048mb of corsair may be a bit overkill, if you aren't going to oc stick with the 3200 if you oc go up to 4000.

Shadus

Since you seem to have an extreme desire to critize anyone who cares to spend alot of money on a pc my question is: Are you envious?

Shadus

so how do i spend the money to buy a 200 mph sports car and drive it 200 mph?

Nah speak up, we're all a bunch of opinionated bastages anyways

Just pointing out that if someone has the money and that is what they really want its no worse of an investment than anything else. Shrug.

The answer: Puters, car, and women.
The question: What costs you the most money?

Shadus

No kidding, some 'people' buy Segways. If a person wants a big e-penis, who are we to oppose him?

To the original poster: I would go for the works. P4EE, titanium case, Vapochill, LASERs instead of LEDs, etc. etc. You will have THE best gaming comp that money can buy. Don't forget good headphones and speakers. I hooked up an ampli. to my comp and two MONSTER speakers. Quake never sounded so good. Can't carry the damn things to a LAN party, but thats where the headphones come in. I went with some AKG professional something.

<font color=blue>If the <font color=yellow>laurel</font color=yellow> is to big for your head, it becomes a hoola-hoop, and you have to keep your butt really busy.</font color=blue>

I spend, if you avarage it all out, about 10 dollars a week. ~520$ +/- 200$, a year. That's about the money I would spend on a 'puter. Given the choice of beer or computer, I would go for the beer.

<font color=blue>If the <font color=yellow>laurel</font color=yellow> is to big for your head, it becomes a hoola-hoop, and you have to keep your butt really busy.</font color=blue>

It's a nice system, but I think you could do a more with your budget elsewhere. I don't know what kind of monitor or speaker system you have, but they are very important if you plan on playing games... you could have the best soundcard in the world and it will sound like crap on crappy speakers!!

Will you really use all of that memory? You may want to trim that back a bit... there's nothing wrong with 2GB of RAM, but I doubt you'll use it unless you are running a citrix server, SQL Server, or something like that (in which case the graphics card is entirely unnecessary!!!)

The 9800XT really doesn't perform all that much better than the 9800 Pro.

As for the processor... If you are intent on having the latest and most expensive componants, why not go with the Extreme edition?!?!?!

dude get an audigy 2 24bit soundcard and the new gigaworks 700watt 7.1 speaker system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i swear man the powerful soundwaves comming from that system WOULD actually kill you if you got shot in quake 3 or whatever your fancy (play et its awsome) but i have the corsair XMS twinx DDR400 1 gig and dude its one of my prized possesions corsair performance is beyond the best!
id say my e-penis is like 9 gigs long

Asus A7N8X Ultra Delux w/ AMD XP2800+Barton
Corsair XMS Twinx DDR400 1gig
Geforce 4 TI4600 128ddr
Audigy 2 Platinum
Samsung Silent 7200rpm 80gig
WD Secondary Crap 5200rpm 40gig