I have $400 to spend on computer parts...

Here's my specs..

- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz

- Memory: 2 Gb RAM

- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3

- Hard Drive: 160 GB

Now here's the things I want...

- Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

- ECS BLACK SERIES AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

- ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 SLI Support Video Card

- A 600W PSU

- Two 1 GB DDR2 RAM

- AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz AM3 Dual-Core Processor


If you guess can give me links to reasonable priced items I will be very happy.

Just try newegg.com. They tend to have the best prices.

That's where I shop at you silly goose

You're stupid to be buying DDR2 memory when you can have DDR3 at nearly the same price.

You're stupid for not knowing that his motherboard probably doesn't support DDR3.

ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 SLI Support Video Card

Pesonally I wouldn't buy that one when you have better options available for a similar price and better efficiency. For example the cheap ATI Radeon 4770.
Its one of the best choices in "price vs performance" and "efficiency/temperature vs performance" available.


QFT...


Not exactly true. Actually its a fact that most games aren't optimized for multiple cores yet, making it a better (and cheaper) choice to buy a dual core with a much higher clock rate and FSB than those we can find in quad cores which usually have lower clock rates and because these last ones tend to be pricey.


Personally I would recommend you to get a decent PSU. And those specs don't seem to need more than a good ~450W PSU such as the ones made by Corsair or Seasonic...

May I suggest a Seagate Barracuda 7200.13 500GB which should be the same price and better than the Caviar like 50$(.12 sucks because of all of the random seeking which is very loud and it's out of date)

Also I would DEFINATELY upgrade your Graphics and RAM.

And I'd say to go with a 4xcore

Another thing that has been said that I'm backing up is not to go with SLI, another reason for that is that many games actually run slower with SLI because both of the cards have to "communicate"

Well, I don't really care about that right now, DDR2 is fine for me

Remember if your monitor screen resolution is 1600X900 to up you should get a 1GB mb video card, But if you hav a 1440X900 to below you need 512MB video card memory, and make your video card a 9800GT 512mb to get more money to buy a AMD Atlon II X4 620 or 610 >Quadcore CPU's Get more Preformance than Dual cores.

I might get another GPU to run SLI, that's why I need a 600w PSU