I would make room in your budget for at least a decent set of 2.1 speakers........or some headphones. If you buy cheapo $10 speakers your games will sound really lame.
My budget is trying to be 1500 but its getting stretched>_<
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SAMSUNG 710N-BK Black 17" 12ms LCD Monitor - Retail
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Computer Case
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - OEM
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Dual Channel Platinum System Memory - Retail
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
SAMSUNG Black Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1 - OEM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB 3.5" Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
eVGA Geforce 7800GT 256-P2-N518 Video Card - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 3800+* Retail --- toledo core....
Fortron 450W
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yes, I'm still alive But I need to get off the computer now and go do something so I'll edit this later or else reply if someone else replies before I get back
I'm hoping to max out at 1500 something.... So I'm probably gonna have to cut some corners, I don't know yet though because I still need to add all the parts up that I was planning to get and figure out the total>_<
ram=I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go with some value ram but I donno what<==need a good sale
mobo=thinking of keeping it the same... I think
graphics card=40 dollar rabate is going to exspire if i don't buy soon....Thinking about waiting until christmas to buy lol or not!
case=gonna get!
ok well I really need to go hope i get lots of feedback...lol