new build Q's

fuel911

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Hi,

I have an interesting situation. I am “finally” going to buy and build a new computer. But the parts have to come from zipzoomfly… long story short… a friends work has a promotional thing for their employees who are students… so im going through him.

I know newegg is better but in the end I will get it all for much cheaper (and don’t even have to pay it for 9 months… hah!) but it can’t be more than $650 shipped.

I already have a monitor and a nice unused winxp disc.

I went on another site and so far I have this


141806 COOLER MASTER RC-534-KKN2-GP Centurion 534 Tool-Less Mid Tower Case (Black) Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $59.99


10005471 GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AMD AM2 Socket AM2 1000 MHz PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) Motherboard Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $81.99

80727-9 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4600+ Socket AM2 (65W) Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $103.00

322786 eVGA e-Geforce 7600 GT KO PCI express 256MB GDDR3 Video Card w/HDTV Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $104.99

80061-9 Crucial Technology Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 2GB kit DDR2-800 PC2-6400 Memory Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $105.80

10005886 THERMALTAKE Purepower 500W W0100RU Power Supply Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $69.99

101208-11 Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer ***Free Shipping*** 1 $54.90

10005207 Sony NEC Optiarc AWG170S-B2 18X SATA DVD Burner Black DVD�RW Bulk ***Free Shipping*** 1 $37.49


$618.15 shipped

Like any smart buyer... I’m just looking for a second opinion :). Is everything compatible and quality stuff? Is that PSU ok?

Another question is… down the road if I wanted too… could I pop in vista and an 8800 on this system? Or not enough cpu and psu power?

Thanks :).
 
Well I cannot really tell you as the specs are not listed. I would suggest newegg or tigerdirect though.

I would recommend an 520HX if you are planning to add an 8800.
 
The recommended PSU for a 8800 is 450W IIRC. But just to be safe, I would get a 600+W PSU in case you decide to add more hard drives, etc.
 
The recommended PSU for a 8800 is 450W IIRC. But just to be safe, I would get a 600+W PSU in case you decide to add more hard drives, etc.

Hard drives should not be an problem...

An 8800GTS I would get an

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139001&Tpk=520hx

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139002&Tpk=620hx

for an GTX or Ultra (the CPU would bottleneck), SLi'd GTS...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341002
 
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