Intel Mid Range

[desidude006]

Budget- $650~ USD
Uses- Gaming (around 1650 x 1050), School work, internet, email, minor rendering.
Games which include cod4, bf series, steam games, maybe crysis; though i never played it.

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 + $7.00 $109.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Conroe 2.20GHz $119.99
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 $44.99
Antec Sonata III 500 Case and 500 watt Power Supply + $12.99 $129.95
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM $59.99
SAPPHIRE 100242L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 + $7.00 $199.99
SAMSUNG Black $26.99
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total comes around $661.89 w/o shipping and taxes.

Links if you guys need to look up
Motherboard-http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128337
Processor- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115032
Ram- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231098
Case and Psu- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811129024
Harddrive- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136074
Graphics Card- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...tem=N82E16814102747[/L
Optical Drive- http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16827151153

Open to suggestions, might be ordering soon.

 

[desidude006]

*bump* anyone?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might look at the threads like this in the General Hardware forum.

I haven't shopped for motherboards lately but that's a reasonable combo. In your shoes I'd probably try to save up a little more and get a 2.4 - 3.0 GHz core duo.

 

[desidude006]

ah ic, i was thinking about getting a E7200. Its just 10 bucks more.