Time for a new AH PC whats the best bang for the buck

[lefty2]

Time has come to put together a new PC for playing AH. The budget is to get the best stuff I can for the dollar that is best bang for the buck not overboard. Keep this one simple easy to set up and use. What would you get where and why.
Thanks

[Irwink!]

Are you looking to get something ready-made or do you intend to homebrew it?

[38ruk]

Price range? Amd 64 stuff is really cheap now , but that is because the new intel conroe is out . Conroe is the way to go if you can afford it .

[lefty2]

Built or buy at a shop not sure. Looking for suggestions on a parts list
CPU
MOBO
G-CARD
MEM
DRIVES
PS
and so on.
not on the cheep but not expensive cutting edge either just best parts for the dollar spent.

[ViZeen]

cyberpowerpc.com
Case X Discovery mid tower 420 watt
AMD 939Ath 3800+
EVGA nForce4 SLI chipset SATA raid Dual PCI-E
1024mb pc3200 400mhz DC DDR corsair
nVid GF 7600 GT 512 mb PCI-E x 16

I myself dont know watermelon but I sqdie of mine put this list together for me, thought I would share it.

[Schatzi]

This is what I bought a few days ago. Im very happy with its performance and the price was bearable mid range.

AMD Athlon 64 3700 (2,2 GHz)
Asus A8N E Motherboard (939 socket)
2 x 1024 MB RAM
NVidia GeForce 9600GT - 256 MB (PCIe)





(PS: running AH full detail and max res)

[38ruk]

If i were you i would pick one of these cpu's to start with  that fits your price range . Conroe is really the way to go for performance .  

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?Nav=|c:22||c:1969||c:2396|

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=50001157+2010340343+1050922263&Submit=ENE&Subcategory=343


The system in my sig can be bought cheap now , it handles everything i throw at it without issue, But i would still like to get my hands on a Conroe .

[MOSQ]

What's your total budget? Without that you will get a million possible answers. What's cheap to some folks is expensive to others. Post your budget including whether you need a monitor and you will get better answers.

For some ideas see the Extreme Tech Build It site. They build example systems to fit different budgets.

Click the BUILD IT tab