Please help me put togther a Gaming rig, Budget = 4850$

[hockeyballz30]

id go with an AMD chip. the new fx-60 possibly but then again i am a AMD supporter and have only gone with them in my building of my last 4 PCS. Find it more reliable and quicker. Just my opinion.

 

[maroon1]

The R600 is ATi's DX10 card which should be out by the end of January.

R600 will be released in March, not January

id go with an AMD chip. the new fx-60 possibly but then again i am a AMD supporter and have only gone with them in my building of my last 4 PCS. Find it more reliable and quicker. Just my opinion.

FX60 is a horrible CPU compared to core 2 duo or quad

 

[lovely?]

yea it isnt as good as many people hoped for, but therin lies the problem, because if you get an am2 board and the AMD quad cores turn out to be better, then your pretty much screwed

 

[liquidshadow]

R600 will be released in March, not January



FX60 is a horrible CPU compared to core 2 duo or quad

Where'd you get this info?
Everything I read said between January and early Feb.

 

[Geoff]

Proccessor : Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB

Very nice processor, best out right now.

OS : Genuine Windows® XP Professional

Either Pro or MCE would be a great choice.

Memory : 4GB DDR2 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 4 x 1024MB

Great RAM, but make sure it's compatible with your motherboard (voltage wise)

Harddrive: 150GB (2 x 150GB) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 10,000 RPM w/ 2 x 16MB Cache

Great choice.

Primary CD ROM : 2x Blu-ray Disc (BD-ROM) Reader / Writer

Don't buy, extremely overpriced and with Vista you will need to buy a special monitor to watch the videos. Wait for them to get under $200.

Second CD ROM : 18x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive

Sounds good.

Graphics : Dual 768MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX - SLI Enabled

Sweet setup, you will really enjoy it

Power Supply : 1000 Watt Multi-GPU ( not sure which brand )

If you know how many amps it has, that would help out. But I've only seen 1KW PSU's with really high amperage, so you should be all set.

Physics Processing Unit : Ageia PhysX Processing Unit w/ 128MB GDDR3

Not many games support it, but its great for the future games.

Sound Card : Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Elite Pro High Definition 7.1 Audio

I would go with the Fatal1ty FPS, only because you can install the front panel in your computer.




By the way, what motherboard are you getting?