This a good price? if not what would you recommmend

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#1 slyr114
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ok i picked out all of these parts to try and stay around 1000 dollars with the monitor and keyboard i already have a logitech mx revolution, so i was wondering would you buy this if u had a 1000 budget witohut monitor 1200 with monitor? if not what would you change and why? sorry i couldnt lable links for some reason, and newegg wouldnt share my wishlist

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115043

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182062

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148261

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811103011

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129112

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121014

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839121008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254005

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823175104

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#2 cole_793
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Newegg.com - CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

cheaper and better ram, from a much more trusted company. get it

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#3 slyr114
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thanks will defintly change to that, was just looking for best cheapest ram and now ive found it
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#4 cole_793
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Yup, i just got that ram for my new build. Good choice with the visiontek 4850 too.
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ya was going to get 4870 but since im just playing soure engine games i should be fine, and the fan runs slow but i found a fan fix for it just google 4850 fan fix and u will find that all it takes is a 2 second edit of an xml file to set the fan to whatever you want, thus cooling the idle down to 47 degrees.
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#6 cole_793
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Awesome. I havent built mine yet, i have all the parts except vista and a HDD. and i just ran out of money. lol
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#8 cole_793
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Yeah, id take the HDD out of the one i have now but its only 120GB and i want a 500.
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#10 slyr114
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ya it does i have been using that serial for a while now, only thing is when you go to activate it will say it failed, so u have to use the phone number to activate it, that is only because this is an oem key
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#11 mitosiskain
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The quad core's a bit excessive. It wont improve your gaming much.

the guru of 3d does processors

Also I think you might need a power supply with 30+ amps on the 12v rail... Yes I just looked on guru3d. They recomend at bare minimum 450w and 30 amp on a 12v rail. Since you've got that quad core you'll probably need a nother 50w so go with a 500w psu.

I'm going to recomend a western digital hard drive, not because they are faster but. I have both a western digital and a segate hard drive. The western digital makes almost no noise and the segate makes more then the fans when loading. It could just be a factory defect in the segate or something.

I'm also going to recomend a full copper cooler for both the graphics card and the proccessor. If your planning on using this machine for more than three years you'll need to protect your graphics card. The factory cooler will likely burn out in a year or so from dust or hair.

zalman cooler

zerotherm cooler

baby cooler

zerotherm vga cooler

zalman vga cooler

psu for cfx

psu for single card

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i know right now the dual core would be fine, but if i get the quad core the only thing i would have to upgrade in this pc would be the gpu, in the future that is, i was going to get the artic cooloer 7 for the cpu, and i dont think i need a cooler for the gpu as if anything goes wrong im sure i can just get a replacement for it thanks for your help will prob get the wd drive, and what would u recommend the baby booler, zerotherm, or artic cooler 7 oh and how can i tell how many amps my psu has on the 12v rails? where does it say on newegg?
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oc cpu ofer over to 20-50 fps more then non oc like E8400 Can oc easy to 3.8 ghz and so beat most of the Quadcore non oc by lot
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#14 mitosiskain
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i know right now the dual core would be fine, but if i get the quad core the only thing i would have to upgrade in this pc would be the gpu, in the future that is, i was going to get the artic cooloer 7 for the cpu, and i dont think i need a cooler for the gpu as if anything goes wrong im sure i can just get a replacement for it thanks for your help will prob get the wd drive, and what would u recommend the baby booler, zerotherm, or artic cooler 7 oh and how can i tell how many amps my psu has on the 12v rails? where does it say on newegg?slyr114

Yes, it's on newegg. It's listed under the output specification. The 550w I suggested says

"+3.3V@30A,+5V@20A,+12V@41A,-12V@0.8A,+5VSB@3A"

see the +12v@41A means a 12v rail with 41 amps.

This is going to be a pretty good machine.