Here's my budget. Pick my parts please.

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BKSinAZ

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Thats right. I am going to give you a budget and what ever you think is best I will purchase for my new computer.

CPU = Max is $300.00 (probably will not over clock, kinda like the Q6600 or E6850 but your decision)
Mother Board = Max is $200.00 (needs to also have pci, pci-e slots. More slots the better)
Ram = No max price, but need 4 gig (kinda like corsair XMS, but your choice)
Video Card = Max is $400.00 (want to go with nVidea perhaps eVGA)
Power Supply (must be quiet, but not over kill)

Will this computer be able to use IDE hard drive? Not important if I need to purchase new SATA or something else.

Any questions just post em. Thank you.
 
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If you can hold off untill january Intel is to realease their new lineup of cpu's.

For a motherboard/graphics card.. you can get a 680i board which support SLI, and if possible you could buy two 8800GT's for SLI at $280 each. I also like the Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 ram.

For the Power supply if you were to do SLI, i would suggest: Corsair 620w, OCZ
GameXStream 700w. Which are both in the $140 range i believe.. of course if you want to spend more you can get more, but those would be my choices for a reasonable price.

At the moment the 8800GT performs right with the 8800GTX wich is around $500 since its based on a new technology. It outperforms the current GTS models, but a new GTS is supposed to be released on Dec. 3.

Just some ideas to through in there for ya, what operating system do you plan to run?
 
Not familar with 680i. Can you tell me the name brand? I will not be buying two video cards and therefore will not need SLI. So you recommend one 8800gt?

ThatGuy16 said:
If you can hold off untill january Intel is to realease their new lineup of cpu's.

For a motherboard/graphics card.. you can get a 680i board which support SLI, and if possible you could buy two 8800GT's for SLI at $280 each. I also like the Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 ram.

For the Power supply if you were to do SLI, i would suggest: Corsair 620w, OCZ
GameXStream 700w. Which are both in the $140 range i believe.. of course if you want to spend more you can get more, but those would be my choices for a reasonable price.

At the moment the 8800GT performs right with the 8800GTX wich is around $500 since its based on a new technology. It outperforms the current GTS models, but a new GTS is supposed to be released on Dec. 3.

Just some ideas to through in there for ya, what operating system do you plan to run?
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