I've been saving pocket money and spot income (like from refereeing games) for 2 years or so, planning to get the upgrade machine. Thanks to you guys I've decided to build the machine myself...and here's what I'm looking at.
Motherboard.............P5W DH Deluxe...
link to motherboard CPU..........................
Intel X6600 (Yep, a conroe!)
RAM..........................
2GB of PC6400 DDR2-800 Crucial RAM...
link to memory Hard Drive................Western Digital SE16 250GB SATA...
link to hard driveVideo Card...............HIS Radeon X1900XT 512MB (not the XTX)...
link to vid card Drives.......................
HP 16X CD-ROM DVD Burner With LightScribe, IDE...
link to hard drive Sound Card..............None for now
Operating System....MS Windows XP – Pro
Power Supply...........Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550W
Case........................T
hermaltake Tsunami VA3000VWA...
link to caseWith rebates, it looks like I'll be running $1600 or so. I dont want to think what this configuration would cost from a box maker -- but I'll say this, it'd be enough that I'd never spend that much!
Any suggestions or thoughts?