Thursday, April 19, 2007

Sorry Late!

Well as you can see I already missed a day! Sheesh what a bummer. My plan Failed to scan in the chunk of the Fry's add but anyhow here is yesterdays build:
Motherboard+ Proccesor: ECS PT890T-A + Intel Core 2 Duo E6400(Nice!) $190
Included are all your standard features, 5.1 sound, ddr533 support PCI-E and Obviously this is one of the new Intel processors which are top of the line (Amd sadly has fallen behind as far as price vs. performance) they also are great overclockers!

Ram: 2GB of Patriot DDR2 pc5300 (2 dimms) 115$
Great bargain, this is becoming the standard for ram, and a solid way to get ahead with performance.

Hard Drive: Western Digital 320GB SATA/300. 7200 RPM 80$

Graphics Card: This one is up to you, But for my personal preference Nvidia+ DX10=Awesome (8800 GTS 320mb) 280$ for 90$ more you could get a 640MB edition and for 250 more you could get a GTX, but for 280 you could SLI another of these. All in all you will do well either way. ( A personal favorite, news on the 8600GTS, is that it is slightly lacking as far as futureproof for high end graphics in DX10 Games, but for the pirce you really can't beat it)

Case: This is based on a case/psu/keyboard/mouse/speaker combo pack priced at 45$

Power Supply: 94$ SLI ready and 600w, good deal


Optical Drive: a basic Sony DVD drive 31$

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