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Well I was attempting to build a pc around christmas but that didn't happen. So i'm giving it another shot now. Let me know what you think of it. My budget is $1000. Let me know if there is anything you think I should change to help save money or make the performance better with my price range.

I'm not really a big PC gamer so please keep that in mind as far as the GPU goes. I may play a few games here and there but nothing like crysis.

CASE = COOLER MASTER Centurion 5
FAN = APEVIA 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
MOBO = GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
CPU = Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Compound = Arctic Silver 5 (Will the CPU come with compound?)
HEATSINK = ZALMAN 9700
RAM = 2X G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2 6400
GPU = Radeon HD 3850 512MB
P/S = Antec earthwatts 500W Power Supply
HDD = Seagate Barracuda 250GB
DVD Burner = SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model
Card Reader = Rosewill 52-in-1 Black Card Reader

Total = $953.00 w/Shipping
 
Many people may disagree with me, but if you're not going to be gaming you can get away with a far lower spec computer. The fastest computer I own for loading up windows is inexplicably still my 950mhz duron with 740mb ram or so. Things just happen instantly on it, it's really wierd!

If you want to run vista at some point then it's definately worth overspecing though, so that setup looks more than powerful enough. I've been running Crysis with half the ram and video ram btw, so it'll run anything fine. I love gaming, but high resolutions don't bother me.

I would voice a worry about samsung optical drives though - I've always had problems with both them and sony. I've used plenty and I've had quite a few problems. If you can get stretch a bit further (not much further to be fair) then get a Plextor. When writing disks I started getting a 10th of the errors I used to get with a new samsung, and they seem to last forever
 
yes the zalman comes with a compound but u would use artic silver over it. Itll make a big difference im the temperature of ur cpu.
 
if you arent going to be doing much gaming i would wait on the gpu, you should be fine using the on board until the new ones come out, then get a 3850, or get one from last year, it just depends on what you are going to use it for
 
Q6600 processor cannot be utilized by most software. Go with the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor.

Are you going with Windows XP or Vista for an Operating System?
 
The build looks great in my opinion. It may be overkill if you are not gaming, but consider this.

If you are not gaming in the future, then this computer will last you like 4 yrs. Go with it.
 
If you are going with Windows Vista 64-bit Operating System I would suggest three or four 1 gigabyte modules. Four modules would be best so you can put them into dual channel mode (I don't know if you can put your random access memory in dual channel mode with 3 modules). Be sure to buy the exact same model and brand of RAM of all four so dual channel mode will work.

From what I have read Vista 64-bit uses a lot of memory so you want at least 3 gigabytes or more of memory.
 
From what I have read Vista 64-bit uses a lot of memory so you want at least 3 gigabytes or more of memory.
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If you get just 3GB, there was no reason to buy x64 Windows in the first place..
 
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