New PC Build

[dmethoxibit]

My friend wants me to build him a decent gaming pc(crysis on low -medium settings) for less than 1000 dollars. I know WM and JN are really good at this so i thought they could make some suggestions if possible:D Ok heres what i got so far

-Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID-$139.99
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Processor-$174.99
-OCZ SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)-$35 I USE THIS RAM IT ROCKS
-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB Hard Drive - 7200, 16MB, Serial ATA-300, OEM-$74.99
-EVGA GeForce 8800 GT Superclocked Video Card-$280 awesome card
-Thermaltake / Max Orb / Multi-Socket 775/AM2/939/754 / Copper Base / CPU Cooler-$29.99
-PowerUp 5701 Black/Silver ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, Audio Ports and Coolmax V-500 500-Watt ATX Power Supply-$49.99
-Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit DSP OEM DVD-$94.97
-already has case fans and dvd/cd combo and monitor
-will be overclocking

To all the Vista haters, have u even used vistsa? i had A COUPLE problems in the beggining but now its flawless everything works even win98 games! hasnt crashed once in forever. so vista is staying in this build lol

GRAND TOTAL:$921.90

Remember not over $1000.00!

Thank You!

[The Wise Monkey]

Looks pretty good - that should play Crysis on high. :)

You may want to buy a separate PSU, as any PSU that comes as part of a case bundle is generally not as reliable as one bought separately.

Jamie always recommends the Corsair HX520, but thats outside your budget. Look for something from Antec - they do very good PSUs at very reasonable prices. About 550W should be good for this system.

For more of the Vista discussion, check out the thread on it in the Windows section of this forum. :)

[Jamie Nixx]

Swap the motherboard for a Gigabyte P35, its basically the same price and it supports both DDR2 and DDR3 memory not to mention having a kick ass chipset.

For $15 more you can get the E6750.

Can't argue with the Ram i have some myself and at $35 its a steal.

PSU wise, Antec or a Hiper type R.

The Arctic freezer 7 Pro is a much better cooler than the Thermaltake and its cheaper, if your not overclocking the stock fan is fine.

For me the jury is still out on Vista, you get more FPS in games in XP, XP isn't a system hog like Vista and the drivers are top notch, Vista will get there soon, its just not there yet.