Ok so I am buying all the parts then putting it togeather myself. I will be reusing my monitor keyboard speakers etc.. and my goal is $500. This is what I got so far.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813138077 motherboard http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103741 proccessor http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145590 memory http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822144701 hard drive http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827101131 CD/DVD Player http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16832116202 O/S
total: $395
That just leaves the case, which i want it to be cheap looks relativly nice and have a psu with it. And the video card. I dream of 8800s but with my price range i dont think so. So i was wondering what the next best thing is, also any other suggestions to something better would be nice. Thank you.
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 675 SDRAM50 dollars
Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2B 1 Pack - OEM90 dollars
if you want performance(even in Crysis) go with XP, just download Vista transformation pack if you want all the flash. And if you can please try to save up for a 8800GT 512mb, there simply isn't a better bang for the buck
ok lets see here. PCI-E 2.0 wouldn't that require a different motherboard? case looks pretty good, and the ram isnt the right type (mine needs ddr2 800). Ya I'll probably go with xp for better performance. And I just now noticed this but I should of posted this in PC Hardware sorry.
According to the offical Biostar website that RAM should work just find you just can have anything faster than DDR2 800, and I believe PCI-E 2.0 is backwards compatibly just like SATA 2.0 aka SATA 3gb/s. And yeah this should be in the PC hardware section
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