Gaming Desktop - Budget $1600

Concordedly

Concordedly

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Please do not include monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Those are things I will purchase super amazing versions of after my build is complete.

Note: Must have x64 of course. I'm looking to possibly have two video cards depending on how hard it is to set up. This build will be used primarily for music, gaming (WoW and others), and I want it to be able to burn anything I want and probably have at least a DVD-RW for secondary. (I know overkill overkill.) I have to connect wirelessly so if you recommend a built in wireless card over a USB wireless adapter, please include that in your specs.

Don't really care about AMD vs. Intel I'm looking to hear some good arguments either way.

Go!
 
Check this items in newegg.com

core i7 920
Asus P6T
Patriot Viper 6GB DDR3 1600
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Western Digital Caviar Black
LITE-ON iHAS-324-98
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional
Consair 850W if you plan to crossfire in future. Or go for 550W if you running single card.
Cooler Master 690
Win 7 pro 64bit OEM
Vigor Monsoon III LT
MASSCOOL G751
 
 
I second Daisymtc but would change a few things.
Are you just listening to music if so don't worry about the sound card.
You could go with some g-skill memory.
Even a p55 board with a 1156 socket i7.
 
 
Go with the build suggested above
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i would !
 
If I had $1,600 this is what I would do. A hundred people here will tell you 100 different ways to spend $1,600.

For me and my needs...this is the one:D

It will leave you about $400 for a graphics card and CPU cooler. It really depends if you want ATI or Nvidia. The motherboard I selected is best for an Nvidia card. If you want an ATI card, you might want to look into another motherboard.

Case: LIAN LI Lancool PC-K62 for $120
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Case Fans: XIGMATEK White LED 140mm x 3 & 120mm x 1 = $50
120mm
140mm

Fan controller: ZALMAN MFC1 for $37
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PSU: CORSAIR 750HX for $170
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Motherboard: EVGA X58 for $230 (Nvidia Card)
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Motherboard: Not really sure what is the best for ATI card setup? One of the guys above picked some nice motherboards that would be good with an ATI card setup.

CPU: Intel Core i7-920 for $290
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RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 6GB for $155
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Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB for $75
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Just my 2 cents:D
 
This is the System I just got minus the Monitor and keyboard and other peripherals:

Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail - $144.98 free shipping ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160 )

MOBO: ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail- $129.99 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131366 )

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor - Retail -$175.99 free shiping ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674 )

PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail - $199.99 free shipping ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139011 )

RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996657 - Retail X 2 for a total of 8 GB- $99.99 ea free shipping ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146871 )

HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - $229.99 ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136322 )

VGC: ASUS EAH5750/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5750 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail - $144.99 ea. X2 in crossfire ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121351 )

CPU Cooling(for overclocking): ZALMAN CNPS9900LED 120mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail -$52.99 free shipping ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118046 )

I think that's it. Oh, also right now on newegg you get $22.00 off on the CPU and CPU cooler with combo deal.
Also you'll need to get an internal DVD reader at least, if not burner to install your OS, as I just recently discovered. I did not list my choice because the options and prices are endless and cheap.

That should easily be within your range.
 
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