PcMe said:
Case - (Your preferance, but here are some good ones..)
Thermaltake Armor
Armor Link
or Cooler Master Cavalier
Cavalier Link
Power Supply - Don't cheap out on this, maybe get a better one, I don't know Power supply's all that well.
Fortron Source 550W
Fortron Link
Processor - I've listed two, don't know what you're interested in.
AMD X2 4800 Toledo
AMD 4800 Link
AMD FX55
FX55 Link
Motherboard - Do you plan on SLI? If so..
DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI
DFI Lanparty Link
Video Card - You plan on getting the 7800GTX 512Mb right?
So I'll leave this blank.
Hard Drive - Here's the deal, capacity or rpm?
If rpm, Western Digital Raptor 74G x2
Raptor Link
If capacity, Seagate 500Gb, 16mb cache
Seagate 500Mb Link
Optical Drives - Yeah I don't know much about them, lol
DVD RW/CD RW, etc. Pioneer
Pioneer Link
DVD-ROM Asus
Asus Link
Memory -Depends on your intentions (OC, etc.)
2Gb OCZ RAM (2 x 1Gb)
OCZ 2Gb
Cooling/Heatsink
Zalman 120mm Copper
Zalman Link
Sound Card
SoundBlaster X-Fi
X-Fi Link
or
Audigy2 Gamer Ed.
Audigy2 Link
Do you need..
Keyboard?
Mouse?
Monitor?
Speakers?
Lights (Neon, cathode, etc.)
Fans, cables, etc.?
If so, I'll be happy to list some for you.
Thank you so much! As for SLI... I would actually like to, I haven't heard much about it so I wouldn't know if it would be like persay... Dualcore, Personally in terms of processors I would feel safer going Singlecore with todays technologies and worry about Dualcore when I believe it is actually helping, instead of possibly doing the exact opposite if you know what I mean? So... with the SLI capability I suppose that means a pretty big leap with Video card related requirements if everything is working properly and technology is using it as it should?
As for the harddrives, I've never really looked much into RPM or Capacity, though I guess it's both obvious? The RPM of it only really effects how fast something is stored or sent out from the harddrive I imagine? It really doesn't effect the performance dealing with actually running software such as an online game does it?
And for overclocking, do be honest... I am halfway afraid to even start dabbling with OC'ing... I'm not experienced with it at all and have heard very little about it and how to do it... so I'd be afraid that I'd burn something up!!
As for the rest of the things you were listing that I might need, yes pretty much everything... I wasn't for sure how many cooling fans I may need, Lights, etc.. I BELIEVE I could handle the monitor and the keyboard/speakers etc.. though it maybe neat to see what someone experienced in whats around anymore show me something?
For my preference on the video card, I know I had mentioned it just because in theory it sounds great to me, but... am I wasting my time? Will the card live up to it's inticapation? So if any of my preference rub ya the wrong way, I'd be more then happy to hear another suggestion!
For the processor I knew I was really looking into the AMD Athlon mainly because I thought going for the XP64 might be a good idea... I wasn't really for sure if I was on the right track there... the better of the two listed? Ah confusion and being naive eh?
But I appreciate it!! A lot!!
::EDIT::
As for cables and all that other stuff... if theres something I am probably going to need, I may not know it, so don't be shy if you may feel like informing on something you may or may not know that I know! haha.. Trying to make sure I turn every leaf here..