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APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: this week BUDGET RANGE: the lower the better (under 600) SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: office work, multitasking.. excel, word, outlook, quickbooks, internet browsing.. ect PARTS NOT REQUIRED: everything except keyboard, mouse, monitor PREFERRED...

I'm building a pc for a friend, and need help choosing components that fit into his budget. APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 2 weeks BUDGET RANGE: $1000 after rebates SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: General gaming, upcoming first person shooters and RTS games.. modern warfare 2...

I just built a computer a few days ago with most of the same components you chose. I'm really happy with the way my build turned out, although I think it would be a bit of overkill for just playing WoW. Here are my components. Intel Core i7 Processor i7-920 GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P CORSAIR...

Switching out the hard drive seems to have taken care of the issues. Thanks for the help.

I started installing vista again this morning. When I get to screen that asks me to select my hard drive I get a message saying the that disk may fail soon. Could this be what was causing blue screens and update problems?. If so I'll get another HDD today.

This is my first build so I don't know too much about troubleshooting. I'll try to cover everything that I did, and any help would be appreciated. I built yesterday and everything seemed to go fine, I installed Vista and once that was done I installed the drivers for my graphics card from the...

Thanks for the quick response and links, I'm going to be ordering everything today. Just as a side note for anyone using ewiz.com, when you buy a combo deal from them it negates the free ground shipping, even though both items had free shipping individually. For the MOBO+CPU deal I was looking...

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: In the next month RANGE: $1200 - $1500 SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming mostly: I play WoW, HL2, Counter-Strike, Fallout 3.. and I'm going to be playing a couple new MMOs once they are released. PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Speakers and monitor (I'll...