G'day,
I'm getting the following computer from newegg. While money is somewhat of an object, I'm working hard on rationalizing this expense with myself (it's up to $2800 with shipping). Any comments/suggestions for the following?
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail - $49.99
SILVERSTONE ZEUS SST-ST65ZF ATX12V 650W Power Supply - Retail - $169.99
MSI K8N Diamond Plus Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail - $199.00
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail - $464.00
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model Twinx2048-3200c2pt - Retail - $236.00
XFX PVT70FUDE7 Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail - $479.00
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM - 4x$165 = $660.00
LITE-ON SK-1688U/B Black USB Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail - $6.29
SAMSUNG 940t-Black Black 19" 20ms LCD Monitor - Retail - $329.99
Creative Inspire P7800 90 Watts 7.1 Speaker - Retail - $86.00
There it is. Like I said, some pricey stuff.. but it should last me for a long long (long.. looking at 4-5 years) time. I want to be able to play the latest games in good quality (Doom 3, Quake 4, Duke Nukem Forever (
), and especially Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which comes out later this year), but after that I won't care much if I start to fall behind game-wise.
Edit:
The mobo is so expensive because I wanted something that had hardware raid 5, and a SATA2 controller with 4 ports (which this has), or cross-controller raid (which I don't think this one has). The disks will (obviously) be in a RAID5 configuration, so 1 will be parity.
What do you think? Any comments/suggestions?