- Nov 14, 2005
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Hey there I'm building a gaming system for my cousin. He's wanting a fairly high end gaming rig that will be upgradable and fairly capable of running the best games for like 2-3 years (isnt that what we all want?) SO I got a system together and I was wondering what you guys thought. Looking around $2500 (more if necessary) for the tower alone.
Asus A8N SLI Premium-$163
(seems to be agood sli board)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor ? Retail-$400 (I know that the AMD FX is the best gaming CPU at the moment but I figured in the near future programs are going to be taking dual core into account and this will put him ahead in the game and allow for upgrades in the future w/o too big of a performance hit at the moment.)
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail $219
(Is this RAM good or should I go up another level?)
Western Digital Raptor 74gb 3.5? Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-OEM-$161
(as primary drive w/ the games OS etc.)
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300S0 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive $128
(for all the extra's mp3's videos , general storage etc)
BFG Tech BFGR78512GTXOC Geforce 7800GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail-$750
(I figured start with the best card out at the moment and then in the future he can get another one for SLI)
AeroCool Turbine Power ATX12V 550W Power Supply - Retail $100
(Need some serious suggestions here. I'm not that familiar with good PSU's)
NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X
(decent burner?)
DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner - OEM- 38.99
(just a fast basic drive)
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 ? OEM $129.95
PLease feel free to offer any more suggestions. I figured the case will be up to him pretty muuch aesthetics etc. However I've never ran a system with SLI and dual core processor so I know the heat is going to be a lot higher than I'm used to. SO any cases I should keep an eye on. Won't really be doing too much Over clocking. Like I said the PSU is something I'm reall wondering about. Still got room for like another 300-400 bucks if theres something I should step up a level like go up to a AMD x2 4400? 3gig RAM?
Appreciate the help.
Asus A8N SLI Premium-$163
(seems to be agood sli board)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor ? Retail-$400 (I know that the AMD FX is the best gaming CPU at the moment but I figured in the near future programs are going to be taking dual core into account and this will put him ahead in the game and allow for upgrades in the future w/o too big of a performance hit at the moment.)
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail $219
(Is this RAM good or should I go up another level?)
Western Digital Raptor 74gb 3.5? Serial ATA150 Hard Drive-OEM-$161
(as primary drive w/ the games OS etc.)
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300S0 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive $128
(for all the extra's mp3's videos , general storage etc)
BFG Tech BFGR78512GTXOC Geforce 7800GTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail-$750
(I figured start with the best card out at the moment and then in the future he can get another one for SLI)
AeroCool Turbine Power ATX12V 550W Power Supply - Retail $100
(Need some serious suggestions here. I'm not that familiar with good PSU's)
NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X
(decent burner?)
DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner - OEM- 38.99
(just a fast basic drive)
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 ? OEM $129.95
PLease feel free to offer any more suggestions. I figured the case will be up to him pretty muuch aesthetics etc. However I've never ran a system with SLI and dual core processor so I know the heat is going to be a lot higher than I'm used to. SO any cases I should keep an eye on. Won't really be doing too much Over clocking. Like I said the PSU is something I'm reall wondering about. Still got room for like another 300-400 bucks if theres something I should step up a level like go up to a AMD x2 4400? 3gig RAM?
Appreciate the help.