Recommended PC Components

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CPUs / Processors
Intel
Pentium Dual Core
E2180
E2200

AMD

Motherboards
Intel
P35
GIGABYTE GA-P35-S3G
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L

AMD

Video Cards
NVIDIA
GeForce 8 Series
8600GT
8800GS

ATI
Radeon HD Series
HD2600XT
HD3850

Memory
DDR2 800
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB)
mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB)

Hard Drives
Western Digital Caviar 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
SE WD1600AAJS 160GB
SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
ST3160815AS 160GB
ST3250410AS 250GB

Widescreen LCD Monitors
Hanns·G HW-191APB 19" 5ms
Acer X193W+BD 19" 5ms
ASUS VW193D 19" 5ms

Thermal Compound / Grease
Tuniq TX-2
Arctic Silver 5
ARCTIC COOLING MX-2

this is what i have currently been busy. please review this. i am missing some cz i dont really know about it enough.
 
8600gts over the 8600gt, because you can get it for $55

AMD Boards:

DFI Lanparty 790fx Open box - 90$
Biostar 780g
AS-ROCK 780g (its not crap..)
Biostar 770A
790x Boards
 
add 750a and 780a mobos to amd.

ps...
it is not advisable to use a 9850 phenom with a cheap mobo unless you like buying new ones. needs to be 8 phase power.
and a 9850 will smoke a lesser mobo in less than a minute.

low end amd cpus
x2 4400-4800 brisbane
 
OK dumb noob question.

Is the recommended components on the first page of this thread the latest and greatest, or were they the original and have been updated in a later post? My meaning is, when the author updates his reccomendations, do they appear on page one or on a different page?

Thanks
 
thing with the 4850 is where do we put it. an argument could be made for it going in the budget or high performance bits.
 
Well a card that cost $200 but can max out crysis given the rig is something special. Why don't we just put it on midrange and high end? Budget minded users wouldn't spend more than $100 on a video card anyways.
 
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