Heres my setup for my PC.

Here's what i got for building my new PC. will this play games like fear, bf2. going am2 because the k8l upgrade in 2007. gonna take 7600GTX and get DX10 card. not sure about the power supply if it will support this, and upgradeable in the future when i have the cash. Not too sure if the monitor is good, 16ms, is ms really game breaking?. thnx for answering/reading ( Edit: this is canadian $. 1USD=1.12CND)


mobo-ASUS M2N SLI DELUXE PCI-E X16 slot DDR2 800mhz NOS, 152$ (Canadian Currency)

cpu- AMD ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ 216$ OR AMD ATHLON 64 X2 4200+

RAM- PC2-4200/533Mhz, 1GB 112$ Not sure if i need 800mhz, will mobo run

Vid- XFX Geforce 7600GTX GDDR3 256mb mem. Memory Clock Speed: 1500MHz Memory Bandwidth: 25.6 GB/sec 149$

Hard Drive- Seagate 250GB Barracuda 7200.9 SATA 81$

keyboard/mouse wireless bundle- 20$

Monitor- Mag 17" Flat CRT Monitor 16ms. 130$

Cooling system- ????? fill me in on this and power supply plz

DVD drive- 16Xdvd.8.5Gb.Double Layer 31$

Power supply/case bundle- 450W sli-compatible 40$

958$ w/ tax= 1014$

 

The power supply is very important. Unfortunately, you can't go by wattage as there are three rails (3.3V, 5V, 12V) that have various amperages. Today's CPU's and PCIe video cards (this applies to any graphics in SLI due to this) feed off the 12V. In otherwords, the two most power hungry units are sharing the same power buffet. There's no power supply for $40US, let alone CAN that's going to power that system. Your prospects don't get any better when you get a case with a PSU, especially for what you want. With DX10 cards, the power requirements are going to go up.

Given your future prospects, you'll want to invest in a good 550-600W+ unit to start with, most of which are going to be starting in the $80-120US range.

The following units are solid ones to start out with. Not all PSU's are equal, so running across a PSU that claims 600W for $50 is a big red flag.

Antec TruePower TPII-550 (550W)
Enermax EG565P-VE (535W)
OCZ PowerStream 520 (520W)
FSP Epsilon 700GLN (700W)
OCZ GameXtreme 600 (600W)
OCZ GameXtreme 700 (700W)
Seasonic S12 600W
Any Silverstone unit 500W or better
PC Power & Cooling 500W or better (if you really have deep pockets)

Avoid any of the following brands:
-PowMax
-CoolMax
-Q-tec/Q-tech/Q-Technology
-Apevia/Aspire
-All Ultra units (save for the X-Finity, and even then, given your plans, it might be better just to skip it)

For cooling, if you're not going to be overclocking, the retail cooler for the CPU will work fine.

 

edit: ok here i changed the cpu link OCZ PowerStream 600-Watt ATX Dual 80mm Fan SATA Ready SLI Ready EPS PowerFlex Adjustable Rails Power Supply OCZ600ADJ SLI in Canada at TigerDirect.ca
OCZ PowerStream 600-Watt ATX Dual 80mm Fan SATA Ready SLI Ready 128

 

Yeah, that'd do the trick. Just keep in mind it has a rebate expiring on the 15th of this month.

 

hey i would recommend going with the bet cpu possible. If your choosing i would get the 4200 plus. Its real cheap rate now to so you might as well

 

hmm... Here u need to look at definately coz 16ms is not good at all especially for games... Go for atleast 8ms or less!

 

yeah i will agree with that as well, 16ms is ok but you might notice some unwanted things.

 

Yeah, but it's a CRT. I didn't think CRT's had response times in the same way LCD's do.

 

wow i had actually completely overlook that it was a CRT, my appologies, and yeah thats correct response time doesn't really have much at all to do with CRT's performance or visanility. For CRT's it all depends on the refresh rate, so long as it has a high refresh rate it should be ok