New PC tenative parts list

[Hecubus28]

Building a computer at the end of January when its tax refund time. So fars heres my parts I am going with. Any suggestions? A lot of this might be cheaper come the end of January. If the video card drops to around 400.00 I will probally pick up two of them.

Computer parts list

Case
Thermaltake SHARK Black ATX Full Tower Case, Model "VA7000BWA" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-133-143&depa=1
$165.00

Power Supply
OCZ PowerStream 520W Power Supply With Adjustable Power Rails With LED Indicators, SATA Connector, Model "OCZ520ADJ" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-152&depa=1
$140.50

CPU
Amd 64 FX-55
??
$900.00

Motherboard
Gigabyte Nforce4 SLI
??
$200.00

Memory
CORSAIR XMS, Xtra-Low Latency 2-2-2-5, 184-Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200, Model TWINX1024-3200XLPRO - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-524&depa=1
$281.50

HardDrive
Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 6B300S0, OEM Drive Only
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-359&depa=1
$204.00

KeyBoard
KEY TRONIC KT800PS2BUS-C Keyboard PS/2 104keys -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=23-131-119&depa=1
$14.69

Mouse
Logitech Blue Performance Optical Mouse PS2/ USB, Model "MX510" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=26-104-151&depa=1
$35.50

Video Card
XFX nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Video Card, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, Dual DVI/TV-Out, PCI-E, Model "PVT45GUD" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-150-081&depa=1
$495.50

Already have, Floppy Drive, DVD/CD/RW drive,.

Total $2435.XX

 

[Leonidas]

damn, looks like a fun system to build and use, i wish i had some cash to drop and build an SLI system, even tho id rather wait til it was a slightly more mainstream technology, however i wonder if 2 6600gt's would outperform 1 6800gt, and they would cost less... anyone got a place with good sli benchmarks?

 

[Hecubus28]

This site has some pretty good benchmarks with a few different Motherboards. http://www.anandtech.com On some of the benchmarks the 2 6600's are beating out the 6800's.

 

[waynejkruse10]

over here in australia, a friend of a friend got a Nforce 4 sli mobo shipped over, cost him $1000 aud just for the mobo. He put in 2 6800 utltra, 2gb ram dual channel, 2x 147gb 10k rpm drives (raid 0) etc. Really good

 

[Hecubus28]

I am building this to replace my aging 2200xp GeForce4 4400Ti system.. Hoping its a huge increase in performance. So your friend is happy with the SLI system he built?

 

[lazerman]

Don't get XFX get eVGA if they have them out in PCI-Express by then.. eVGA is of much better quality.

 

[espeed]

I am lovin that case, hell that is sexy! gonna have to get one myself, been lookin at cases for a while

 

[Hecubus28]

As of now the only PCI-E card I can find is the XFX thats the reason I have it on there. So hopefully others will become available before the end of January. If not I dont think it matters all that much.

 

[espeed]

can you supply a link to the SLI board your after?

 

[Hecubus28]

Cant post a link to a site with a price as its not on newegg yet. But here is a site for the boards review. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2285