Thanks to all the great people on these forums, I came up with a recommended build for my new system. I plan on using this system to game on EQ2, I don't plan to overclock and I was shooting for coming in under my budget of 2000.
The only item I'm really not sure about is the Monitor. I was tempted to get a 17inch Samsung LCD, but I keep hearing it is a problem to game with LCD and I'm not worried about the spacing issue, so I might just go with the 19 inch CRT referenced below. Any thoughts on this are of course welcome.
Any other comments would be appreciated - only started researching this yesterday so I might have missed some obvious stuff and it's been a couple of years since I built my last system.
Many thanks for these great forums.
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Motherboard MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Audio/GB-LAN/USB/IEEE/SA 139
Processor Athlon 64 3500+ 512K Retail Heatsink w/ Grease 372
Memory Corsair DDR (400) 3200 - 1 GB (2 pcs 512) 215
Case Lian Li Black PC-61 Case 99
PSU Enermax 420W power supply 66
Hard Drive Western Digital 74 GB SATA 10K Raptor 176
Video Card EVGA Nvidia 6800GT 392
DVD-ROM Asus Black 16X DVD 48X CD 29
DVD-RW NEC Black 8X Dual Layer
Sound Card Chaintech 7.1 PCI Sound Card 25
Speakers Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers 52
Peripherals Logictech Cordless MX Duo 75
Monitor Undecided ? maybe NEC/Mitsubishi DP930SB-BK 19" w/shipping 310
TOTAL (w/estimated shipping of $150.00) 2000
Please note - The number at the end if the pricing as of Sunday 9/12. It is based on the Monarch computers website (motherboard combo with motherboard/processor/memory and thermal grease) and a Western Digital 10,000 RFP Hard Drive and on the Newegg website for everything else.
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The only item I'm really not sure about is the Monitor. I was tempted to get a 17inch Samsung LCD, but I keep hearing it is a problem to game with LCD and I'm not worried about the spacing issue, so I might just go with the 19 inch CRT referenced below. Any thoughts on this are of course welcome.
Any other comments would be appreciated - only started researching this yesterday so I might have missed some obvious stuff and it's been a couple of years since I built my last system.
Many thanks for these great forums.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Motherboard MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Audio/GB-LAN/USB/IEEE/SA 139
Processor Athlon 64 3500+ 512K Retail Heatsink w/ Grease 372
Memory Corsair DDR (400) 3200 - 1 GB (2 pcs 512) 215
Case Lian Li Black PC-61 Case 99
PSU Enermax 420W power supply 66
Hard Drive Western Digital 74 GB SATA 10K Raptor 176
Video Card EVGA Nvidia 6800GT 392
DVD-ROM Asus Black 16X DVD 48X CD 29
DVD-RW NEC Black 8X Dual Layer
Sound Card Chaintech 7.1 PCI Sound Card 25
Speakers Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers 52
Peripherals Logictech Cordless MX Duo 75
Monitor Undecided ? maybe NEC/Mitsubishi DP930SB-BK 19" w/shipping 310
TOTAL (w/estimated shipping of $150.00) 2000
Please note - The number at the end if the pricing as of Sunday 9/12. It is based on the Monarch computers website (motherboard combo with motherboard/processor/memory and thermal grease) and a Western Digital 10,000 RFP Hard Drive and on the Newegg website for everything else.
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