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My First Custom PC-Please help!

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Outmaneuver

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:Q I'm hoping to get something that will last quite a while. My current 'Rig' is a 6 yr old P3 500MHz Job with chronic HD space issues that gave up playing modern games a few years back.

I would like to play the pretty games such as X3 and Project Gotham, maybe EQ2 and BF2. Not so much Quake/Far Cry/FEAR. I'm looking at getting a 7800GT, maybe even stretching as far as a GTX cause I would like the card to last me a few years. It sounds like I shouldn't bother with SLI as it's more efficent to sell on an old card and buy a higher end single card.

I have just bought an Opteron 146 (CACJE 0546 BPMW) and a pair of 74GB Raptors. I would like to overclock the Opty somewhat but not so much that it eats into it's lifespan. Would it be worth my while getting a DFI lanparty or would an Epox 9npa+ be more reliable/easy to use and up to my needs?

On memory I would like reliability, 2GB for futureproofing and decent but not extreme overclock potential. The PSU is dependant on the above and I understand any generic DVD Re-Writer will do fine.

I would like to spend the equivalent of $800-$1000 on the above.

Thanks in advance for your help/comments.
 
Either the DFI lanparty or Epox 9npa+ would be good. I have the DFI myself. I would ditch the raptors for something like the WD 250gb SATA II 16mb cache hard drive. Definatly get 2x1gb sticks. Newer games are starting to get more ram hungry, BF2 is one of them. I am using 2x1gb of OCZ platinum myself, but there are others that dont cost quite as much. I would also recomend getting a dual core, both ATI and Nvidia drivers are now optimized for dual cores, and future games will be able to take more advantage of dual cores. The quake 4 dual core patch looks like it made a decent differance. Since you are gonna overclock anyway, I'd go with the Opteron 165 or 170, or the X2 3800+. I recomend a 400-450w Fortron for the PSU, they are good quality, and nicely priced. I picked one up not to long ago.
 
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