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Need advice/Recommendations.

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imported_fallen

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My Power supply went out, and took most of my computer with it. I am trying to turn this tragedy into an excuse to upgrade. With a budget of $1,100 I would love advice on the following parts:

Mainboard
CPU
Ram
Video Card

This will be mainly for gaming, but I probably won't be overclocking. I have the parts I need to build what I want except for the items above taken from my Previous System or already purchased trying to get it to work.
 
id go with a 3500+
mobo for the 3500+ just choose any you like feature wise seeing as you arnt overclocking
6800 GT
512 of PC PC4000 ram, get a GIG if you have enough money
 
Thanks for the great suggestions. I have one more question about ram. I have 1gig(2x512) of Corsair TwinX 3200LLPT already available. Will this ram work with an AMD 64 3500+, and the Asus A8V-Delux MB? If I am reading other posts here right, in the past that memory was a major issue for AMD, but with the Socket 939 that seems like it is not quite the problem it once was. That would save me about $200 I guess. I could probably use that to go from the 6800GT to the 6800 Ultra.
 
You don't need to get extra RAM then, unless you do really memory-intensive things where you'd want a couple gigs. The PC4000 stated above won't do you any good unless overclocking. The 6800 Ultra is kind of a waste, though--buy the BFG GT (many BFG cards now come pre-overclocked and with a lifetime warranty at those speeds, their 6800 GT no exception) and you're almost at Ultra speeds from stock, with a warranty.

From your previous system:
"PSU: JGE-450P4 450watt Powersupply"
I'm not familiar with this, but it sounds like it might be a generic. Make sure you don't skimp on the PSU this time around, if you happened to before. (That said, you don't need a $180 PCP&C 510W--a quality 350W-450W will be good, from Antec/Enermax/Fortron/Seasonic/OCZ/those kinds of companies. Something in the higher end of that spectrum will be needed if you plan to do SLI in the near future.)
 
Have you considered going PCI-E (and maybe SLI)? if you're spending $1,100 for CPU, Mainboard, RAM and Video, you might be able to afford it. When are you planning on upgrading again?

Asus PCI-E boards should be arriving soon... GameVE claims they'll be shipping an Asus-SLI board Dec. 10. (though... It's kinda expensive). Hopefully the price will drop quickly on that... but there'll be other models w/o SLI that might be worth looking into as well.
 
The best advice is the hardest to accept, wait a month.
The nf4 boards will be out by mid-december but prolly not readily available til late December/Early January.

1100 can go along way on those 4 components, especially since you have memory that is fine.
You could get the 250 or so SLI mobo and 2 6600 GT pic-e boards(380 bucks) with plenty left over to spurge on a stud processor if you wanted or a 3500+ and another gig of that ram.
 
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