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JHallas

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Ok, so this computer is for a friend who wants to be a casual gamer, maybe run most games at mid. I want to put him together a Nvidia/Intel system for about $400-$500 total. He doesn't need overclocking, performance memory, or super-high end processor so I figure this is feasible.

I'm want to spend about $100-140 on the processor, duo or quad faster than or equal to 6600.

I was expecting to spend about $75-125 on the mobo, heard good things about gigabyte

Probably $20-50 on 2 gigs of ddr2 dram.

$80-120 on around 1TB hd.

$120-150 on vid card

$80-100 on case/cpu

As you can see, the lower amount of my figures almost adds up to $500, so any low cost high value parts suggestions would be great! Let me know of you need any more info.

Thanks!
 
APEVIA X-QBOII X-QBOII-NW-AL/500 Black / Silver SECC Steel MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply $70

Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $90

MSI R4830-T2D512 Radeon HD 4830 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card (free R6 Vegas2) $100

GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model GG24GB800C5DC $38

GIGABYTE GA-G41M-ES2L LGA 775 Intel G41 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $65

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E7400 $120

Total $483

If you down size the HD, and get a weaker CPU (E5400), you could step up the video card to a 4850 if needed
 
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