Well the time has come for me to move on from my 2 year old rig I built. It's been a great system, but I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty again. That being said, I need your help.
Budget - $600
Parts Already owned - Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Floppy(just in case?), BFG 8800 GT OC
Use-Light gaming and just your average daily use. Might consider using it for Media Center capabilities with my 360 for streaming to my tv. Would like to put a Tuner card on it, if it won't bump up the price too much.
OS - Vista Home Premium or XP Pro? Either one, should I go 64 bit?
To OC or not to OC - I would like to OC if I can find the time to sit and do it thoroughly. Until then, it will be stock.
When - Sooner than later, hate having a great GPU just sitting in a box. LoL
Case - Sonata III w/Earthwatts 500
CPU - Intel 21xx or Intel 4500, is the $70 dollar premium worth it? Ideally, even if I do OC, it will only be up to 3.0ghz as I hear that is the threshhold for most of these budget systems
Board - Abit IP35-E - I heard it is a decent board for normal use and to OC. That being said, better to spend 20 bucks more for the Gigabyte DS3R or something like that?
PSU - With Case
Optical - Basic black DVDRW
Cooling - Arctic Freezer Pro 7
HDD - 300gb is what I would like, WD, Samsung, and Seagate? I would like something quiet
Memory - 2GB or 4GB, I guess it depends on the OS/OC, but a link to the memory would be nice.
I think that is everything, I appreciate those who have helped me so far and I hope to have this wrapped up sometime this week. Thank you again.
Budget - $600
Parts Already owned - Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Floppy(just in case?), BFG 8800 GT OC
Use-Light gaming and just your average daily use. Might consider using it for Media Center capabilities with my 360 for streaming to my tv. Would like to put a Tuner card on it, if it won't bump up the price too much.
OS - Vista Home Premium or XP Pro? Either one, should I go 64 bit?
To OC or not to OC - I would like to OC if I can find the time to sit and do it thoroughly. Until then, it will be stock.
When - Sooner than later, hate having a great GPU just sitting in a box. LoL
Case - Sonata III w/Earthwatts 500
CPU - Intel 21xx or Intel 4500, is the $70 dollar premium worth it? Ideally, even if I do OC, it will only be up to 3.0ghz as I hear that is the threshhold for most of these budget systems
Board - Abit IP35-E - I heard it is a decent board for normal use and to OC. That being said, better to spend 20 bucks more for the Gigabyte DS3R or something like that?
PSU - With Case
Optical - Basic black DVDRW
Cooling - Arctic Freezer Pro 7
HDD - 300gb is what I would like, WD, Samsung, and Seagate? I would like something quiet
Memory - 2GB or 4GB, I guess it depends on the OS/OC, but a link to the memory would be nice.
I think that is everything, I appreciate those who have helped me so far and I hope to have this wrapped up sometime this week. Thank you again.