Building a new system

[goku2100]

I'm helping a friend build a new gaming system for about $800 and have selected a list of parts from newegg.com but I'm wondering if the system I chose is out of proportion or not.

Here is the list:
Antec Black ATX Mini Tower PC Case with 350W Power Supply, Model "SLK1650B" - Retail

NEC Black 16X DVD+/-R DVD Burner support Dual Layer, Model ND-3520A BK, OEM

OCZ Value Series 184-Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200, Model OCZ400512WV3 -Retail (Two sticks)

MSI "K8N Neo2 Platinum" NVIDIA nForce3 ULTRA Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL

AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512KB L2 Cache, Socket 939 64-bit Processor - Retail

Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 XL Video Card, 256MB GDDR3, 256-Bit, DVI/VIVO, AGP 8X, Model "100115SR" -Retail

The reason why there is no HDD included is because we plan to take the HDD from his mac and install it into this system.

 

[diabloII]

a mac HDD works on a PC one??

i doubt it...

 

[aspire]

should work although newer macs use sata i think

graphics card is kinda too god for system

 

[goku2100]

Well if you can stick a maxtor HDD you bought from frys into a mac, I'm sure a mac HDD should as well work in a PC... (Full wipe of course)

 

[diabloII]

graphics card is kinda too god for system

ur a retard, it's not too good for the system

it's great and perfectly balanced

 

[Raekwon]

looks good, that graphics card isnt too good. lots of people with AXP's have 6800U's THATs too good.

 

[aznboi88]

X800xl isnt a bad card overall it can play most of the games now quite comfortably.

 

[Raekwon]

for sure, its quite a good card really.

 

[aznboi88]

If you have some money to spare when you added up the costs of that system, you might want to consider on a better power supply because the ones that comes with cases arent too good try stick to thermaltake and antec.

 

[desiboi]

Screw the ATI, get the nVidia 6800GT, or something else from nVidia.