Plan on new system

[caivoma]

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
My new pc will mostly use for playing MMORPG as wow, warhammer. I will do some light office work on it as some database, words ? I won?t do any photoshop or making/editing video on it. I will run dual monitor set up on this build.

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread .
Price range is around 1000 dollars.

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
US

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
No, but I prefer good brand with a history of quality computer parts.

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Keyboard, mouse, 1 hard drive. That is it.

6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yeah, most of my components are taking from the builder thread. I just want to make sure that I got all the right parts since the last computer I built was 4 years ago and I am a little bit behind on the technology curve.

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
I won?t do any OC on it.

8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Sometimes in September.


CPU
Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale
Click 169.99
I am either getting this one or E8500, since they are only 20 dollars apart but I am not sure which one yet.

Motherboard:
ASUS P5Q LGA 775
Click 129.99
Or
Gigabyte EP-G45-DS3L LGA 775
Click 99.99
I lean toward the Gigabyte since it is 30 dollars cheaper but if the Asus is better I will go for it. For motherboard, I like hassle-free motherboard that I don?t have to tweak at all.

GPU:
Asus HD 4850 512 MB
Click 152.99
I think 4870 is overkill for my system and the games that I play.

Hard drive:
WD Caviar 640GB
Click 84.99

Memory:
G.SKILL 4GB (2*2GB) DDR2 800
Click 74.99
Or
Mushkin 4GB (2*2GB) DDR2 800
Click 68.99
I will probably go with whichever is cheaper.

PSU:
Corsair 650W
Click 89.99
Or
PC Power & Cooling 610W
Click 79.99
Again, I will go with whichever is cheaper unless one is significant better than other.

I already bought a Antec P182SE case for 110 bucks from the link via Hot Deal. I have Window XP Pro that I bought when I was in college for 20 bucks about 3 years ago. The total come to about 820 bucks sans an LCD monitor. I have an Dells 20 inches LCD from 4 years ago and plan to buy a new LCD to run dual monitors. I will probably buy a DVD drive. My questions are:

Are the parts look good for what I need?
The 4850 should be plenty for dual monitors set up, isn't it? (First timer when it comes to dual monitor set up here)
Will I need a CPU cooler if I am not going to over clock?

 

[MarcVenice]

I'd spend a few bucks extra and buy this mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131299

Why, well, it has crossfire capability's, so if your HD4850 becomes to slow, you just throw in another one for cheap. Usually I wouldn't recommend this, but this is the tiny-est bit of futureproofing you can do, for very little money.

Then I'd buy this PSU, http://www.newegg.com/Product/...E16817139006&Tpk=750tx

It's just a great PSU, just $10 more, and can run 2 videocards, and it will EASILY power any future pc you intend on building.

If you're not convinced, then I'd buy this PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...E16817139001&Tpk=520hx because it's modular, it will be a nice combo with the p182se (have a p182 myself, and I'd love to get a modular PSU)

The HD4850 will run those two monitors just fine, but do you intend on playing 2 wow accounts at the same time? Not sure about performance then.

No cpu cooler needed if you don't overclock. And I'd stick with the e8400, the e8500 is $20 more, which is like 10% or more of the total price, and you only gain like 1/20th of the speed, bad deal if you ask me. Btw, youe e8400 can be set to run at 3.33ghz if you want to, using the stock cooler, for free.

 

[caivoma]

Thanks for respond. I won't do crossfire or SLI in the foreseeable future. I usually upgrade once in a couple years so by that point, I just buy a single card.
I am not going to dual box wow, btw.

 

[caivoma]

How is this PSU:
Antec Earthwatts EA500 500W
click
It goes for 44.99 and will it be enough for my system?

Edit: Nevermind, look like the PSU is from Delta and not from Seasonics anymore.

 

[caivoma]

Also, since I am not going to get crossfire, should I better just go with P43 motherboard?