800 dollar game build also, CRT Monitor?

[mansou]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within 2 weeks

BUDGET RANGE: $800 before rebates

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, internet, videos

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Monitor ( I have a old crt, will this work? if not I can spend another 150 or so on a lcd) , keyboard, and mouse

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg.com

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA

PARTS PREFERENCES: AMD
OVERCLOCKING: Mabey

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: In The Future, when 1 460 is not enough I can pick up a cheap second one

MONITOR RESOLUTION: Dunno
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Heres what I got so far, anyone see any glaring problems?
SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model SH-S222L LightScribe Support - OEM
17.99
Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model 996768
83.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

NZXT GAMMA Classic Series GAMA-001BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

$79.98 (combo)


Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - OEM

MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

189.98 (combo)
ZOTAC ZT-40402-10P GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
219.99

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX

XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power ...

$207.98 (combo)

total $804.83 with shipping. Thanks!

 

[calguyhunk]

1. Your CRT will work, but in 2010, you might wanna go with a LCD . But you might wanna spend the extra dough now on your system & upgrade next year to a LCD. Your call.

Monitor (Optional) : LG E2250T-PN 22". You can go with the cheaper BenQ's, GHans.s, etc, but I'd stick to LG, Samsung, Asus, Acer, Dell, etc.

2. Much faster RAM : $78 Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 4GB (2 x 2GB)

The rest of the build looks alright. Not the brands I normally recommend, but nothing wrong with the specs.

 

[asteldian]

Its a good build, I agree with getting the better RAM that calguy mentioned.

Zotac would not have been my initialchoice for the GPU, but they are $10 cheaper than the rest and from what I can tell around the net they are a good company. Some guy had a bad issue with RMA (but I think someone always does regardless of company) but in the end his 295 was replaced with a GTX480 so I think he was happy at the end

 

[mansou]

Alright, added the better ram. To be honest I just picked zotac as it was the cheapest and came with free just cause 2, would it be worth the extra money to switch to a different brand? and I guess ill probably just just my crt for now and get an lcd next year or something

 

[calguyhunk]

Zotac, Palit, PNY sell a lot. Couldn't be that bad. But I normally go with Sapphire for ATI & EVGA for Nvidia. But you can't really go wrong with Asus, MSI, Giga etc.