Though there's not much point of this thread as I just ordered the parts with him online I just thought I'd let you all know what's cookin'. His budget was about $1100 and he basically wanted to play FIFA soccer 2k6 and Calll of Duty 2. So I picked out the following. AMD Athlon 3200+ Sapphire Fireblade Edition X800GTO (PCIe) Samsung Floppy Drive NEC dual layer optical drive Case that looked good for under $50 (probably pics later) Hitachi SATA2 160GB HDD Quiet Gigabyte Cooling fan ASRock dual SATA mobo with AGP and PCIe Some Creative modem Logitech keyboard/mouse combo Logitech X-230 2.1 speakers Coolmax 550wt PSU 35A CLT brand CRT 17" monitor (better than it sounds) OCz Performance Series ram 2x512MB Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit Sound Card It's not going to break any records but with a little overclock I'd say he'll be pretty good to go with his little gaming rig. Hope the build goes okay, should bet it around monday or so I suppose.
Sounds pretty good Ex. Hope everything goes well with the build *crosses fingers* But hey, if not, you know where to find other people that can help :-p
Thats a pretty sweet starter computer there Ex! Yes, i also would have liked to have seen a WD or Seagate HDD in that list!
Yeah the Fireblade edition cards have beefy coolers and FireBlade overclocking software which is apparently very good. I looked at some Seagate and WD HDD's but for the price this was the best bang for the buck. Better ratings from customers and faster seek times (by a tiny bit). I trust Hitachi, hasn't let me down yet.
