Looks like this is it

[Fuel Injected]

Price isn't much of a barrier with this rig
Suggestions are welcome

Case: Aspire X Navigator
$109 @ xoxide.com

Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
$175 @ zipzoomfly.com

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+(Winchester)
$280 @ monarchcomputer.com

Hard Drive: WD Raptor 10K SATA Hard Drive
$176 @ newegg.com

RAM: Corsair XMS TWINX1024-3200C2PT
$168 @ zipzoomfly.com

Video Card: BFG Super Bundle
$799 @ chumbo.com

Power Supply: PC P&C Turbo-Cool 510 SLI
$240 @ pcpowercooling.com

Optical Drive: Plextor PX-716A
$99 @ zipzoomfly.com

 

[SrGuapo]

Obviously price isn't an issue, but I would downgrade the RAM, CPU, and Hard drive and get a DFI SLI board. OC a 3000+ to at least 2.4 GHz. Buy some of the PDP/Geil RAM that is soo cheap this week (the PDOP is only $130 with the same timings and you have a chance of getting a set of TCCD chips). While a Raptor is cool, there won't be a very big difference between it and a decent 7200 RPM drive. The Seagte 7200.8 250 GB will give similar performance for a bit less money and over 3 times the storage...

Nice system regardless, very jealous . Can I assume this is for gaming?

 

[Fuel Injected]

You would assume correct, plus as a tv when I get a tv tuner card

 

[ribbon13]

DFI all the way.

Oh, there more reasonably priced.

 

[nick1985]

you could EASILY tone down the CPU and RAM, along your PSU. this saved cash would allow you to get a second video card, which would blow your current config out of the water

 

[rise]

jeez, i assumed that super bundle was 2 cards, no?

 

[NightCrawler]

Get the raptor, don't listen to the 7200 is as fast as 10,000 mantra. For transfer and access time the raptor is still not beatable by 7200 drives. Just because Anand did a test showing that I/O wasn't off the chart fast with certain apps doesn't mean you won't notice the difference.

Anything that is hard drive based will be faster with raptor.

 

[Melchior]

DFI Motherboard and cheap Twinmos, G.Skill, or Mushkin Blueline memory = Much superior price/perfmance than yoru current.

I have the Asus mobo, not theres anything wrong with it. But hte Lanparty just owns it for overclocking. Imagine if you got a monster 3500+ and your mobo holds you back...

If you do decide to save a couple hundred bucks, get the Athlon 64 3000+. It's just insane value. My crappy one overclocks 700mhz to 2.5 ghz. Get some good ones to go to 2.7.

 

[SrGuapo]

I assumed that those were two bundled 6800gts, was I wrong?

Edit - it is two 6800gts... On the first page of chumbo.


I recommend different RAM and a better mobo (DFI). OK if you want to keep the CPU and HDD, but you can get better RAM and a much better mobo for the same, if not lower prices.

 

[boborich]

Power Supply: PC P&C Turbo-Cool 510 SLI
$240 @ pcpowercooling.com

Nice PSU. I wish I had one too.

 

[Fuel Injected]

I don't want to change the motherboard because I'll need the PCI slots for other add-in card(the dfi has too few for me).

Yes, the super bundle does have 2 bfg 6800Gt pci-E plus some free stuff