Should I Start Buying?

[staplerz]

• XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450 Watt Power Supply -~- $55.00
  
  
• GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard -~- 109.00
  
  
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor -~- $222.00
  
  
• * Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound -~- $6.00
  
  
• XFX PVT71PUDP3 GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 EXTREME Video Card -~- $160.00
  
  
• CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory -~- $214.00
  
  
• XClio 450BL ATX 450W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, CUL, TUV, CB -~- $40.00
  
  
• Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -~- $63.00
  
  
• LITE-ON Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD Burner -~- $33.00

___Total = $900


does that look like a good rig and if you were me would you start buying the parts?
I have all the money ready i just don't want to buy all this then find out its a piece of junk.

 

[kof2000]

your ram cost the most

go with a hdd with 16mb if you can and you might wanna get a floppy drive you never know when you gonna need it like loading sata drivers or something.

 

[staplerz]

your ram cost the most

go with a hdd with 16mb if you can and you might wanna get a floppy drive you never know when you gonna need it like loading sata drivers or something.

i updated the hd.
and
i have a floppy at home. [:

 

[kof2000]

if you are planning to overclock then invest in a aftermarket cooler. zalman 9700 or something.

 

[staplerz]

if you are planning to overclock then invest in a aftermarket cooler. zalman 9700 or something.

i might in the future but i cant afford any fancy coolers at this point.
ill look in to tho.

 

[kof2000]

what about windows

 

[staplerz]

what about windows

got that covered.

 

[staplerz]

If you were me would you just start buying the parts?

 

[newguy5]

If you were me would you just start buying the parts?

there have been some discussions in this forum revealing that the C2D processors, like the one you are interested in, will be dropping in price at a rather reasonable level within 3-4 months.