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I'm going to buy a new computer in the $1500-2000 range from scratch.
I'm currently looking at the following set up:
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail
Master HD:Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive
Slave HD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKB 500GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
Monitor: SAMSUNG ToC T260 Rose-Black 25.5" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor
CD/DVD: ASUS Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E818A3T
Sound Card: Turtle Beach RIVIERA 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Speakers: Logitech X-530 70 watts RMS 5.1 Black Speaker System - OEM
RAM: Two orders of the following, CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX - Retail
Mobo: ASRock P43Twins1600 LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100242-1GL Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
PSU: Rosewill RX750-D-B 750W ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 SLI 8800GTX SLI CrossFire Ready Active PFC PFC Power Supply - Retail
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail
This setup clocks in at $1800.
I haven't done this before and have been away from this sort of tech news for a while, so any comments or suggestions or even any errors I might have made would be more that welcome.
I'm currently looking at the following set up:
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail
Master HD:Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive
Slave HD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKB 500GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
Monitor: SAMSUNG ToC T260 Rose-Black 25.5" 5ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor
CD/DVD: ASUS Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DVD-E818A3T
Sound Card: Turtle Beach RIVIERA 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail
Speakers: Logitech X-530 70 watts RMS 5.1 Black Speaker System - OEM
RAM: Two orders of the following, CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX - Retail
Mobo: ASRock P43Twins1600 LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100242-1GL Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
PSU: Rosewill RX750-D-B 750W ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 SLI 8800GTX SLI CrossFire Ready Active PFC PFC Power Supply - Retail
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail
This setup clocks in at $1800.
I haven't done this before and have been away from this sort of tech news for a while, so any comments or suggestions or even any errors I might have made would be more that welcome.