need suggestions for building a system

[computerABUSER]

Hi Guys/Gals
My good friend's brother would like me to build him a gaming computer, I have built a lot of computers but nothing at all with the latest gear (i.e. AMD 64 mobo's, pci-xpress VC)

So my knowledge is of the old school gaming technology 🙂 (see my sig) so I really would like some input on what I can go out to the local computer-store and pick up his gear and start building it for him.

His dollar limit on the complete system is about $1000.oo and he already gave me $220.oo for the video card, so what I need now is everything that goes inside the new box. I would like to start him off with 1Gig of memory nothing great even "value-memory" just to get him started.

So I can move around the money on a good mobo so he can upgrade later on when the hard-core-gaming-bug hits him, hehe, you know like us 😀

Thanks,
CA

 

[Gadzookie]

Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
Computer Case 450Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX 12V V2.0 109.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129155

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor
Model ADA3500BPBOX - Retail 219.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103533

EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra Socket 939 nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard 105.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123236

CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory 216.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145579

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM
8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM 64.75
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148040

NEC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive - OEM 9.50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821152005

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM 39.98
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152047

SAPPHIRE 100130 Radeon X800GTO2 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card 219.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102595

this is a decent card by itself at stock but you can easily mod this
200 dollar card to a X800XT PE !

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/127

that should get you started those prices are from newegg for a reference
if you shop around you can probably find most of these parts cheaper

if you overclock you should drop down to a 3200 or a 3000
2 gigs of ram seems like a overkill but 1 gig doesnt seem to be
cutting it anymore :-(

TOTAL 982.23

 

[computerABUSER]

Thanks a bunch Gadzookie, btw, love your handle.