Yet another build thread

[gwai lo]

I have 1000 dollars, please build me comp to run crysis at max.









.....just kidding. One of my friends down the hall is assembling a new rig. He's pulling out his hard drive and reusing all the peripherals, all we need is tower and innards. He does medium amount of gaming, but we're preparing for the heavy stuff anyway just in case. He has a 17" screen, but is thinking about picking up something next year...but in the 20" arena. Went with the 640MB version of the GTS for if/when he goes to the 20". Overclocking is a yes, either he'll do it or we'll do it for him

Ideally he wants to be around 1000, less is better..but not to a loss of performance.

Q6600 $271
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/sku...hmx?&scriteria=BA23383
IP35-E $89 and $69 AR
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/sku...hmx?&scriteria=BA23929
8800GTS 640MB $370 and $350 AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?item=N82E16814130071
CorsairHX 520W $100 and $81 AR
http://www.clubit.com/product_...l.cfm?itemno=CA6200026
2×1GB DDR2-800 $85 and $55 AR
http://www.clubit.com/product_...l.cfm?itemno=CA4330509
Random optical drive, $31
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?item=N82E16827106055
Enermax Chakra $70
http://www.frozencpu.com/produ...-_Black_ECA3052-B.html
3×Yate Loon 120mm L
http://www.jab-tech.com/YATE-L...-D12SL-12-pr-3009.html
Thermalright Ultima 90 $45
http://www.jab-tech.com/product.php?productid=3852
Debating between S-Flex and Yate Loon, Yate Loons are cheaper but S-Flex performs a little better.

Total after shipping ( before the rebates ) - 1111.02

Better deals anywhere? Anything a horribly bad idea?

edit: whoops forgot case in total

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Does he really need the quadcore? He could save almost $200 by going with the E2140 dual core $75 and overclocking it to 3.0-3.2 and be just as fast as the quad in all but a couple of games and even in games that could use the quad the difference is not much

 

[gwai lo]

Well it's more down the road thing. I figured the quad and dual core argument would come up. Anyway, he's not a big hardware kid so he's probably not upgrading or adjust anything for a long long time. So the way I see it is that if he gets a quad now it will be one less thing to worry about down the road.

That and he's a CGT minor, our school has a thing where we can remotely use software from our computers and I figured CATIA likes power.

..but yeah I'm still in between on the quad and dual core issue as well.