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[chocobaR]

Motherboard
Asus A8N-SLI NF4 PCIE?
DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D PCIE?
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum NF4 PCIE?

Memory
Kingston KVR 400MHZ DDR NO-ECC 1G KIT

Hard Drive
SATA 80.0 Maxtor 7200 8MB 6Y080M0?
SATA 80.0 Seagate 7200.7 8M ST380817AS?
SATA 80.0 W.D 7200 8MB WD800JD?

Optical Drive
CD-RW+DVD LITEON 5235K 52/32/52+16 OEM BEIGE

Processor
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.80G/1600/512K/S939 90NM

Video Card
ASUS PCIE GF6 EN6600GT 128M TVOSLI BOX 6600GT?
GIGA PCIE GF6 GV-NX66T128D 128M BOX 6600GT?
MSI PCIE GF6 NX6600GT 128M SLI TVO BOX 6600GT?

Power Supply
480W POWER ATX P4 ANTEC TRUE480 GOLD

Monitor
19in Viewsonic G90F


I know that the 6600GT isn't the ideal video card to game but I don't have much money so it will have to do ^_^

 

[Promethply]

Motherboard---> ASUS 8N-SLI

Memory---> OK.

HardDrive---> Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA (maybe a larger capacity?)

Optical drive---> OK.

Processor---> OK.

Videocard---> ASUS PCIE GF6 EN6600GT 128M

Power Supply---> OK.

Monitor---> OK.

 

[ryanv12]

Get the seagate hard drive, and Asus probably makes the best video cards, albeit pricey. Other than that, things look good for the price.

 

[Chode Messiah]

yeah, go seagate, but a little bigger, asus mobo, and I like the MSI 6600gt with the copper hsf. I think it was $180+ on newegg last time I checked. My friend has one and it is a nice card.

 

[n7]

Why no DVD+/-RW?
They are so cheap now.

DFI mobo
Corsaid VS 1GB kit
Seagate HDD
Oh, & Leadtek 6600GT 😉

 

[chocobaR]

What exactly is DVD+/-RW?

 

[n7]

DVD burner.

Teh NEC 3520 is your friend 🙂

 

[knothead34]

if you go dfi. that board isent fond of kingston ram much less value select. i would go to dfi-street.com and see what others are using some are using ocz ram and guys from the actual company frequent the site to help with problems.

 

[jdjuice]

I'd go with a dvd rw, preferably a retail version that has some software with it. If you already have software, then go oem; if not retail is your friend, they usually come bundled with full versions of software that costs more than the drive itself if purchased separately.

LITE-ON Black IDE DVD Burner Model SOHW-1693S Black - Retail comes with Nero and PowerDVD, probably all you'll need to burn stuff and watch dvds.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

DFI mobo, some OCZ ram, and the NEC DVD-RW mentioned above has gotten rave reviews everywhere i have seen it. Personally I've had great luck with chaintec video cards so I will have to suggest them. I have a chaintec 6200 that softmodded to a 6600 and is running at 500/600 right now.