Can I build a decent gaming rig for 1 grand?

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meatnub

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My budget is around $1,000 (give or take a couple hundred) and I'm looking to build a decent gaming rig that will last me a few years.

I know I want the following (and plan to get everything from newegg.com):

- 3 megs DDR2 ram (probably corsair xtreme or Patriot - just not familiar with Patriot or what kind)
- Geforce 8800 GTS 640k or the GTX - if the GTS is just as good as the GTX I'll go with that. Or maybe I can grab a GTX on ebay close to GTS price.
- Core 2 Duo E6600 cpu

What I'd like to ask advice on is:

- what case should I go for that will be somewhat quiet plus able to handle the length of the geforce card
- what motherboard to go for since I want to go Intel Core 2 Duo
- what HDD ? is a 16mb cache sata-ii HDD that much faster than a 8mb? and is a 10,000rpm sata 150 faster than the 16mb?

TIA.
 
For $1k you can get a pretty good system.

Antec P180 case
Gigabyte DS3 or a new P35 board
a Western Digital 250Gb SE16 is good, if you want get a 36gb Raptor for Windows and use the SE16 for storage :)
 
Thanks for the input so far!

I see the P180 mention a lot and it does have excellent reviews. I'll continue reading up on it. OK well that settles the case.

I forgot to mention I don't plan to overclock nor run an SLI rig.

Should I get a 650 motherboard? Is it true that 680 motherboards are more for SLI configs? If so, a 650 it is. But which one?

Is a 10,000rpm hdd that much better than a 7200? I saw some people say no.

(and this isn't all directed at you INTELCRAZY heh)
 
If you got the money go for a 10k rpm hdd, you will get faster start ups, defrags, virus scans ect (you might not tell the difference in normal tasks)...if you don't plan on going sli then i think the 650 board would be good but IMO i would go for a gigabyte DS3 board
 
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