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[E31]

Motherboard
MSI 870A-G54 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard (100$)

CPU

AMD Phenom II X2 555 3.2 GHz ($100)

RAM

Corsair XMS3 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 RAM ($100)

Video Card

HIS Radeon HD IceQ+ 5750 Video Card - 1GB GDDR5, PCI Express 2.0, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort (130$)

Hard Drive

500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue Hard Drive 40$

DVD Burner

MSI DH-18D4P 18X DVDROM Drive - DVD-ROM 18X, CD-ROM 48X, IDE 20$

Case

Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case ($35)

Power Supply

Corsair CMPSU-450VX 450-Watt (45$)

Improvements?

 

[fastdude]

OS? If you fork out a bit more on the CPU, (Phenom II X4 955), then save some money on the mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=AM3_motherboard-_-13-131-609-_-Product

Looking through components, currently thinking, give us a sec

 

[daisymtc]

Video card - 5770 1GB is around $150. Better than spend $130 on 5750

Western Digital Caviar Black is running faster, but it is slight expensive.

CPU - i personally would go Athlon IIx4 635.

Mobo - I personally go for gigabyte/ asus. But MSI is fine.

Optical drive - that MSI one seems to be DVD-Rom, not burner