Help building wife's computer

[kaesin]

I'm trying to figure out exactly how/what to put into my wife's computer. She has the CM 690 NVIDIA Edition case and, well, that's it.

Right now she plays WoW, but she wants the ability to play any MMORPG game that comes out in the near future and also play them extremely well. I heard WoW utilizes quad core now, but I haven't seen it yet since my i7 build is waiting for paypal to authorize.

Anyways... I'm thinking about building off of a Q series? Or even an i7... would prefer the price range to be around $1000ish.

I'll browse around and see if I can't come up with any parts myself, but I'm drawing a blank on gaming builds for a 1k budget. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[fullmetall]

1k budget build shouldn't be hard for a gaming computer on a quad.

Q9650.
Gigabyte UD3P for crossfire or the Gigabyte UD3R for non crossfiring,
ASUS P5Q Pro. either of those boards.
Sapphire HD 4870 512mb
Western Digital 340gb or western digital black 500gb-640gb.
Case, already have.
Could get a simple stock cooler since you dont need oc'ing but, if you do, Arctic cooling 7 pro or S1283 preferrably + retention Bracket.
PSU 500w PC Power Cooling.. would send out the page links but, someone will always have something else to say and bring in more page links to another product, so, theres a list i got going.

 

[theAnimal]

What resolution?

 

[aevm]

Q9550 $280
GA-EP45-UD3P $115
Sapphire HD 4870 1GB $215
WD6401AALS $80
G.Skill PI Black DDR2-800 2x2GB $55
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209&Tpk=G.Skill PI Black DDR2-800
SH-S223F $25
PC P&C S75CF 750W $80
Vista Home Premium 64 $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488

That's $950 if I added them up correctly. Before rebates it should be around $1000.

Add a second card later if needed.

 

[kaesin]

What resolution?

The monitor is probably going to be a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236051 with whatever she feels comfortable with in resolution.

 

[fullmetall]

Acer's 22inch is cheaper than that at 2500:1.
but, thats not a bad one aswell.

if its to much, can switch the sapphire down to a 512mb.
4870 either way is good enough, even a 4850 is good enough.

 

[kaesin]

Currently what I have is

Case: CM 690 NVIDIA Edition (Already bought)

CPU: i7 920

Monitor: Asus 21.5" 2ms
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236051

Motherboard: Asus P6T
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131359

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130442

OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488

PSU: Corsair 850TX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139009

RAM: OCZ XMP Ready 6GB (3GB x 2GB) DDR3 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227388

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608007


Ending price: $1,565.92.


Any helpful hints? This is for the wife's build. It's a little over the $1k but if it'll be worth it, I'm going to go for it. If it'd be better to go with a Q series, then I'll go with a build based off of one of those instead of the i7 assuming they would both last for a while.

 

[fullmetall]

Yea, the G.skills ram, tighter timings, cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231230

or these ocz's at tighter timings

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227381

that cooler you picked, is a big cooler. pricey, depending on how long you have till you get this,

the dark knight S1238v should be in stock sometime, or just stick with that one you picked.

 

[kaesin]

I forgot to add a HDD, doh.


WD Caviar Black 750GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136283

 

[fullmetall]

Yea, good hd.

usually i prefer ocz over g.skills, so i put those down on the last post.

tighter timings, good quality.