A buddy is looking at putting together his first system which will be predominantly for gaming and he threw together the following configuration. I think he really wants an LCD, so offer suggestions if you must, but that might be locked in (certainly offer better models if applicable). Please take a look and see what he could substitute. This system came in at about $1975 from newegg:
XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply - Retail
CyberPower CP-1080 10 Outlets Power Surge Protector - Retail
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
eVGA 256-P2-N376-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX - Retail
Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) ECC Unbuffered System Memory Model KVR400X72C3A/1G - Retail
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200M0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
HYUNDAI L90D+ Silver 19" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail
PLEXTOR Black SATA DVD Burner Model PX-712SA/SW - Retail
SAMSUNG TS-H352A/BEBP Black IDE CD-ROM Drive - OEM
Turtle Beach CATALINA 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker - Retail
I figured he could cut about $500 off by downgrading his mobo to almost anything (this was WAY overkill), speakers (to Z-5300's, although I might keep the 5500's since they will last from system to system), CPU (to a 3000+), a normal DVD-Burner, the VPU froma 6800GT to a 6600GT (don't shoot me on this ... $370 is a big nut to swallow and I have to believe that the 6600GT should be fine for most gaming needs this year). Any problems, suggestions, better parts.....? As Always, thanks for all of the help!
-Rick
XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply - Retail
CyberPower CP-1080 10 Outlets Power Surge Protector - Retail
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
eVGA 256-P2-N376-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BIBOX - Retail
Kingston ValueRAM 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) ECC Unbuffered System Memory Model KVR400X72C3A/1G - Retail
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200M0 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
HYUNDAI L90D+ Silver 19" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail
PLEXTOR Black SATA DVD Burner Model PX-712SA/SW - Retail
SAMSUNG TS-H352A/BEBP Black IDE CD-ROM Drive - OEM
Turtle Beach CATALINA 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker - Retail
I figured he could cut about $500 off by downgrading his mobo to almost anything (this was WAY overkill), speakers (to Z-5300's, although I might keep the 5500's since they will last from system to system), CPU (to a 3000+), a normal DVD-Burner, the VPU froma 6800GT to a 6600GT (don't shoot me on this ... $370 is a big nut to swallow and I have to believe that the 6600GT should be fine for most gaming needs this year). Any problems, suggestions, better parts.....? As Always, thanks for all of the help!
-Rick
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