i have only good things to say about the 240 dollar intel xeon's that go in the 1366 sockets. if you clock them up from 2.4 to 3.2 ghz they outpower the i7 extremes.... and if you buy the right mobo you can use two of them in one computer. now mind you your gaming so ignore that comment.
i reccomend:
a phenom x4 945 OC to 3.4 to match the 965, saves you 100 bucks to do it that way
a NICE graphics card, (like 5870 or dual 4890's)
whatever mobo works
don't waste your money on 6 gigs of ram, just take 4
the azza fantom case from newegg, i cannot rave enough about this item. it's the sexiest case on the fricking planet, has fantastic airflow, you can't see a single cable in mine, yet i'm running a crossfire set-up 8 gigs of ram 3 terabyte HDD's an atx motherboard, 2 cpu's and a monster non-modular psu in it. and until the end of the month at least on newegg, it's only 50 bucks! ps: it's not really sexiest. that's it's red LED 120 dollar counterpart, also from azza. god i want it but i was on a budget. might switch the LED's out sometime
get a terabyte or 1.5 of hdd, it's so cheap now anyway
might as well toss a nice sound card on there
and you still have some money to spare from savings even after random generic dvd read/write. maybe make it a blu-ray?
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