Good System?

my friend is building a computer and I was just wandering if you think its worth the $600. and if not, how much would you think its worth? but overall I just want to know if its a good system and what it could run these days.

CPU: Q9450 OC 3.6 GHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte-P35-DS4

Memory: 2G, 1066MHz

HD: 250

Video Card: nvidia geforce 8800GTS

Thanks in advance!

what would you suggest?scorpion_great

Well, you can either trust him, or get a more definitive list of parts for us to look at. The list you posted is vague in many places, and as I mentioned earlier incomplete.

Agreed, that is a very vague list.

Also, for a gaming computer, i would get a bigger hard drive, game installs arent getting any smaller, 300 gb and over would be better.

also do you think games would run faster on XP or Vista with this system? because i heard vista apperently runs slower but I dont know maybe they updated that by now.scorpion_great

With the 2 GB of ram, XP would run somewhat faster. In truth, Vista actually isn't much slower than XP, it just uses more ram and used to have a lot of driver issues.

[QUOTE="scorpion_great"]also do you think games would run faster on XP or Vista with this system? because i heard vista apperently runs slower but I dont know maybe they updated that by now.Luminouslight

With the 2 GB of ram, XP would run somewhat faster. In truth, Vista actually isn't much slower than XP, it just uses more ram and used to have a lot of driver issues.

4gb of ram makes a lot of difference in vista.