how does this sound for my first customized pc?

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#1 Blue_Panda
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CPU: AMD athlon X2 6400+ Dual Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

Motherboard: Asus M2N SLI NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI MCP Chipset DDR2/800 SATA RAID PCI-Express Mboard w/GbLAN, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, &7.1Audio

Memory: 2GB PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (corsaid Value Select)

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 1GN 16X PCI Express

Hard Drive: 500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

all this, with a decent keyboard & mouse, decent sound chip, speakers, wireless card, network card, 2 good optical drives, and all the little things, with vista home premium + Service pack 1, with a good looking case :P for:
$934.

any suggestions to boost, or minimize?

im looking for a pc under the $800 mark, but this would be fine with my budget.

again this is my first time, so i feel like ive done something reeeeeal wrong :)

ty for your help!

ps id love any links to pc building sites that are reliable and cheap, but most importantly a prebuilt system, so i dont have to go through any frustrations building it myself.

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#2 sabbath2gamer
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you can get better results for the same price with an intel cpu

i love amd but this is the truth and i cant deny it

ps. do you know how to overclock alsoswith the 8600 its old and outdated and get beat by a 3850 or a 9600gt i suggest you buy the 8800gt it can be had as low as 200 dolalrs on newegg.com

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#3 Blue_Panda
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im gona look into the 8800gt right now, i think with the cutomizing site im using, the 8800 is only like at mak 40 bucks more than the 8600, gonna check right now
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#4 sabbath2gamer
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wait what site is it?!
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#5 Blue_Panda
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cyberpowerpc, ive checked AVA direct, and a couple more, but this one seems like its got some decent prices, so far. do u have any reccomendations?

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#6 IQT786
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this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227050
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#7 TMallory2482
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You'd save money AND get a better PC if you bought the parts and put it together yourself. It's fairly simple. I'm about to order parts for a new rig, and it's only $600 and is better than what you posted :P
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#8 sabbath2gamer
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dont buy from cyber powqer there the worst in the company iv heard so much horror stories from them its not even funny they have horrible customer support and always blam the accidents on the customer. Most of therer products are shipped with dead parts and some stuff is just jingling inside the case getting scrathed and destoryed. They use cheap parts for their builds as well thats why most of the parts are dirt cheap. Ther shipping is also bad if you check the reslerr rating website youll see why they suck

i suggest you either build it or buy from avadirect they use quality parts might be abit more expensive but not as much and they have great customer suport i would know i bought a pc from them a while back and i was pleased on only with the quality of the computr but the shipping was godly.

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#9 Blue_Panda
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well, if i do want to put it together myself, are there any guides anyone knows of? and what are the manditory parts i need?..
o and, do u think i can get all the parts toghether, and maybe get a group similar to, or geeksquad to do it? could they even put it togehter for you?

thank you again

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#10 sabbath2gamer
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maybe but its expensive besides its fun building a new computer its like a hobby

what you need is a case dvd drive ram motherboard psu cpu heatsink video card and a case

there are good guide on the corsair website

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#11 kingme02
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Its very easy to build a pc, I knew nothing about it but you learn as you go.
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#12 Blue_Panda
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im not sure, ive looked it up a little, checked a few parts on tiger direct, and yea, its well under the $700 mark, but it seems complicated. Im clueless when it comes to knowing if these parts will go together. i checked the corsair site, but i dont thing there and guides there..
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#13 sabbath2gamer
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yah the guide is ther you have to look harder but here ill be nice and link it

http://www.corsairmemory.com/systembuild/report.aspx?report_id=78237

its not tht ghard to build a pc like a fellow GS user sais its as easy as playing with legos (lietrally)

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#14 cmpepper23
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It's really not that complicated. I decided to build one back in Jan., and it was my first time. I really didn't use any online guides, because the MoBo came with instructions on wheres parts go. I am by means computer savvy, but I managed to build one.