My final build, what do ya think?

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slmgringo

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NZXT Trinity ATX Mid-Tower Case w/400W Power Supply Silver
NZXT PRC-550 550W Power Supply [SLI-Ready
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 (2x 2.4GHz/4MB L2 Cache/1066FSB
Asus P5N-E SLI nForce® 650i SLI Chipset
1024MB [512MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Corsair
NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS 512MB
250 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 8M Cache
16x DVD-ROM Drive Black
Lightscribe Technology] 16X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black
XP Pro
Works Suite 2006

totaling out @ 1362.00 USD

Things for later:
2gigs of RAM down the road
Presonus FireBox (music production)
 
I'd bite the bullet and get 2GB now IF you play games.

Also if you built that on a website it will be cheaper to build it elsewhere like newegg.com and put it together yourself.

The video card sucks for gaming.

Check this but *note* it has TWO 320GB Hard drives' Take one out and the price drops by $95.

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Lite On DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106047

DVD rom Lite on
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106027

Cooler Master Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119068

Seagate 320GB HD X2 (2 hard drives = 640GB of space.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148140

EVGA 8800GTS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130071

Rosewill RT550W SLI PSU (I'm using one to power an 8800GTS Now)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182045

Corsair XMS2 DDR 800 2x1gb sticks
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145034

Gigabyte DS3 P965 (also using this mobo atm)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128012

E6300 Core Duo 2
http://www.newegg.com/product/Produc...82E16819115005

X-Fi Xtreme Audio
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102007

Windows XP Pro w/ free vista upgrade and free Guild Wars Night Factions
http://www.newegg.com/product/Produc...82E16832116179

Total $1616.83 with shipping before rebates. After rebates: $1566.83 and only $1467.82 minus 1 hard drive. :D


The CPU is a little slower (you wont notice) and the mobo is a little older but it's actually faster in benchmarks than the 6 series Nforce boards! Basically the build I linked you STOMPS that build. By a lot because the video card is like 4X-5X more powerful. Hard drive space is bigger too even with one 320B. You also get an X-FI sound card. Oh and the 2GB of ram now.
 
Thanks for the list. Just to clarify, this isn't meant to be a gaming rig, its gona mainly function for music production and some graphic design.That in mind, do you think this video card will take away alot of resources and hinder it in any way?Also thats why I chose the faster procerssor w/ the higher cache cuz I figured I could always upgrade the RAM later. Thanks again for the tips, Brandon.
 
slmgringo said:
Thanks for the list. Just to clarify, this isn't meant to be a gaming rig, its gona mainly function for music production and some graphic design.That in mind, do you think this video card will take away alot of resources and hinder it in any way?Also thats why I chose the faster procerssor w/ the higher cache cuz I figured I could always upgrade the RAM later. Thanks again for the tips, Brandon.
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That video card is MUCH stronger than any others out. It should be ok for light graphic design. It will be better than most others. Ram will help more with music production and graphic design right away than an extra 2M of cache. If you're going to use Auto CAD or something you might want to get a FireGL ATI card or an Nvidia Quadro.
 
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