I'm open to opinions and recommendations. Just tell me what you think and it I can make it better in any way.
My budget is 2500, give or take 100 or so.
I mainly play FPS's and RPG's. The first couple games on my list to buy are Borderlands and Dragon Age: Origins. I'm not much of an MMO guy, but will most likely play Star Wars The Old Republic once comes out.
The monitor I plan to buy is...
Newegg.com - ASUS VW246H Black 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 20000:1) Built in Speakers - LCD Monitors
Case: Silverstone TJ06
CPU: AMD Phenom 2 x4 965
CPU Fan: Coolermaster V8
HDD: (2x 500GB) SATA-II set to RAID-0 and a separate 1 TB for extra memory
Motherboard: : Asus Crosshair III Formula AM3 DDR3 790FX CrossFire Chipset with Quad PCIE slot SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394,&7.1Audio
Memory: 8GB (2GBx4) Kingston HyperX DDR3/1800MHz
Network Card: Killer Xeno Pro PCI
Power Supply: Corsair HX1000w
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT
Video Card 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 16X PCI Express
Video Card 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 16X PCI Express
Final Price (after the addition of a dvd and bluray drive, an internal card reader, a couple extra case fans, and some speakers) about $2550
This will be my first computer build. I've got a pretty high budget and want to get the best I can with it, but I understand there is a point in which you've gone overboard. So tell me if I have. I've researched a lot of stuff, but am still new to this. I'm open to criticism and recommendations. Thanks for your help.
My budget is 2500, give or take 100 or so.
I mainly play FPS's and RPG's. The first couple games on my list to buy are Borderlands and Dragon Age: Origins. I'm not much of an MMO guy, but will most likely play Star Wars The Old Republic once comes out.
The monitor I plan to buy is...
Newegg.com - ASUS VW246H Black 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 20000:1) Built in Speakers - LCD Monitors
Case: Silverstone TJ06
CPU: AMD Phenom 2 x4 965
CPU Fan: Coolermaster V8
HDD: (2x 500GB) SATA-II set to RAID-0 and a separate 1 TB for extra memory
Motherboard: : Asus Crosshair III Formula AM3 DDR3 790FX CrossFire Chipset with Quad PCIE slot SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394,&7.1Audio
Memory: 8GB (2GBx4) Kingston HyperX DDR3/1800MHz
Network Card: Killer Xeno Pro PCI
Power Supply: Corsair HX1000w
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT
Video Card 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 16X PCI Express
Video Card 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB 16X PCI Express
Final Price (after the addition of a dvd and bluray drive, an internal card reader, a couple extra case fans, and some speakers) about $2550
This will be my first computer build. I've got a pretty high budget and want to get the best I can with it, but I understand there is a point in which you've gone overboard. So tell me if I have. I've researched a lot of stuff, but am still new to this. I'm open to criticism and recommendations. Thanks for your help.