New Pricing = Cheap Setup with good performance?

[jbubrisk]

Hey guys,
I priced out this system, hopefully I'll put it together sometime in early August. I'll be using it for gaming mostly, maybe some photoshop/video encoding. I'd get a better gfx card, but I'm trying to keep the price tag down. Will the 128-bit gfx card be a problem? Another thing I wasn't sure about was the RAM. Do I need 2 GB? The price doesn't seem to bad after the rebate. I would play games like WoW, HL2, DoD:Source, and BF2. Let me know what you think...

$157.00 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Socket AM2)
$76.99 MSI K9N Neo-F
$12.89 Shipping
$246.88 Subtotal (Monarch)

$198.00 CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400 - Retail
$160.00 eVGA 256-P2-N554-AX Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
$51.50 FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX450-PN, 12cm FAN, version 2.0, 2 SATA, PCI Express, 450W Power Supply - Retail
$14.00 Shipping
$423.50 Subtotal (Newegg)

$680.38 SUBTOTAL BEFORE REBATES

-$30.00 eVGA video card
-$40.00 Corsair RAM
-$70.00 Subtotal

$610.38 TOTAL

 

[1N0V471V]

Hard drives? Optical? Operating system? Case?

Otherwise, looks like a GREAT build... you've done your homework.

 

[jbubrisk]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, my bad :$ I got all those things, so I guess its a barebones for everyone else 😛

 

[bnads]

great build, I would do the same if I had the money 🙂

 

[buck]

Can i ask why you chose that memory? I have been trying to decide on DDR2 800 and wanted to get some more ideas.

 

[jbubrisk]

I chose that memory because it got the best review in CPU magazine. 4.5 out of 5 I think, or 4 out of 5. I heard there are problems with OCZ RAM or something too.

 

[Trey22]

Great build for the money. I don't think I would change a thing.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Looks great for a budget build.

 

[jbubrisk]

Actually, I'm trying to stop playing so many games, so I'm not gonna get the 7600, which means the new build is even cheaper! Also, I'm gonna get an ASRock board which is also slightly cheaper, along with some crappy RAM 😛