Final components list

[imported_mson]

First let me say this forum has been A HUGE help to me. I have gotten a lot of good advise.

Here is what I think is my list of part that I am going to order in a few days for my new system. I will mainly be using it for RAW and Photoshop work with some gaming, and I do not plan to OC. I had a budget around $500, I obviously went past that. What do you think? Can I improve on this w/o spending more money? Could I spend less money? Will this be a decent machine for gaming?

Antec SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450Watt SmartPower 2.0
GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Leadtek PX6600GT TDH Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ ST3160827AS 160GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150

Total is $717.55 from Newegg.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Looks awesome -> Nice choice of parts!

 

[biostud]

You could get a venice core since it's better than the winchester.

 

[Nick5324]

Looks good. Have you checked Monarch, zipzoomfly and chiefvalue (newegg sister site) for the lowest price on each part?

 

[CreativeTom]

Very nice choices indeed...I really like everything especially the choice in case and PSU. I would have to object on one thing particular though, I would go with this CPU instead
3000+ Venice Core

 

[imported_mson]

What is the difference between the Winchester and Venice core?

 

[theMan]

venice is a way better overclocker (just in case you feel the urge, which you will), it adds the SSE3 instruction set, it allows yoou to run 4 dimms in ddr400 mode (with the winchester you had to use ddr333), and it is newer. and newer=better.

otherwise, everything looks really great.