New Gaming Rig Advice

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vw-Jeff

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Well if anyone has seen my other 2 posts you'll know that my laptop has crapped out on my and my desktop is old and overheating. That said, I have configured a new setup at http://www.digitalstormonline.com

Specifications:
Case: Digital Storm Twister LITE (Black Aluminum Edition)
Power Supply: 550W Thermaltake (SLI Compatible) (Silent PurePower Edition)
Processor: AMD Athlon X2 5200+ (Dual Core) (2 MB Cache) w/HyperTransport Technology (AM2)
Motherboard: Asus M2N4-SLI (Chipset: nForce 4 SLI) (nVIDIA SLI Comp.) (AM2)
Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 667MHz (Dual Channel)
Floppy / Media: Sony 1.44MB Floppy (Black Edition)
Hard Drive 1: 250GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Optical Drive 1: Lite-On DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 18x / CD-Writer 48x) (LightScribe Edition)
Network Card: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB (By: eVGA) (PCI-Express)
Sound Card: Motherboard Multi-Channel High Definition Audio (7.1 Channel)
Cooling: Air Cooling (Blizzard Extreme Silent Arctic Cooling Heat-sink and Fan (Stage 2 Cooling)
Case Lighting: Blizzard Internal Lighting (Blue Edition) (Cold Cathode Tubes)
Round Cables: Enhanced Interior Air Flow (Optical Drive & Floppy Cables (Blue Edition)
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Customized DVD Image Restore Kit
Warranty: 2 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty
Support: Lifetime Toll-Free Platinum Care Technical Support

Comes out to around $1700

I have looked on Newegg and found all of these components for just around $1200.

Question 1: Is the extra 500 dollars worth paying for a 2 year warranty and assembly etc?

Question 2: Any recommendations on changing out some or all of the parts for cheaper/more efficient ones? I don't feel comfortable with OCing at this point but could be persuaded otherwise I'm sure.

This will be mainly used for gaming, nothing intense just WoW and stuff but I like having all settings at full.

Edit: After looking around here some more I'm starting to lean toward the Intel Core 2Duo procs. I'm open to any suggestions.

Thanks in advance :D
 
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I would suggest building your own computer. For what you described you could spend 1000.00 dollars and be completely satisfied. Over clocking witht he core 2 duo cpu's is just a matter of finding instructions and/or someone who wants to help, the risk is minimal with these cpu's. You could get a e6300 (1.86) up to 2.6 easy with very little difficulty.

As far as the warranty is concerned, by building your own computers and learning about them you can become your own tech support. And besides thats what these forums are for.

The computer you have up there is not bad, but I would not pay 1700.00 dollars for it.
 
Antec Solo Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16

Antec NeoHE 500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel

(I do recommend corsair xms2 over this but this is 50 dollars cheaper...)

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz LGA 775

About 1000.00

Add 100.00-200.00 for HS and optical drives.

If you like ATI, which I do, you could get a cheaper card and wait for there new models to come out.

Also consider and aftermarket HSF.

This is a good idea, yea, similar to mine. I go with what I know works and what is good. IMO SLI is only a way companies sell more and make more money, since you are not getting double the performance for double the price why bother?

I would do more research if I were building it but that should get you started.
 
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I would recommend Corsair XMS2 for memory. It booted up fine and I have the same motherboard.
 
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