I built this system a couple of weeks ago and am way more than happy with it. Got everything through Newegg.
EPoX EP-9NPA+ SLi Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
$152.00 (Think you can get Asus or Lanparty for about the same bucks).
ATI 100-435500 Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - OEM
$295.00
THERMALTAKE Silent Purepower W0014RU ATX 480W Power Supply - Retail
$56.00
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego Integrated into Chip FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA4000BNBOX - Retail
$494.99
CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM $278.00 (Total 2 Gig)
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
$57.00
Microsoft CA9-00001 Black PS/2 Wired Standard Keyboard Mouse Included - OEM
$28.99
TOSHIBA Black IDE Combo Drive Model SD-R1612B - OEM
Item #: N82E16827130029
(Serial #: 0G5HNX0700000CL) $29.99
1 ZALMAN CNPS7000B-AlCu LED 2 Ball Blue LED Light Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail
$29.99
Microsoft Windows XP Professional With Service Pack 2 - OEM
$139.95
SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP - OEM
$9.50
CREATIVE Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value SB0400 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - OEM
$49.00
Lian Li PC-7 B Plus Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer $90.00
Total $1710.41
This system has 2 gig of memory and a striped SATA RAID Array (didn't show the second hard drive above).
You could save some bucks by:
Reducing RAM to one Gig:
-$139 1 Gig Memory
Not getting a fancy Heatsink (the chip ships with one).
-$29.99 Fan/Heatsink
Not going with the Lian Li Case, I think you can get one for about 45 bucks or so.
-$45.00 Case
Winds up to be
$1496.42 plus tax and shipping.
I love this box so far. The game looks completely different. Getting good framerates and haven't seen a stutter yet.
I'm not a computer guru but the thing went together without a wrinkle.
Casca
