im building for my cousin... intel pentium 4 (531) 800mhz 1mb 3.0ghz gigabyte ga-8n-sli corsair 1gb 5300 667mhz (single chip) 250gb maxtor sata2 hdd geforce 7600gt palit sonic dvd-rw floppy case + 350watt psu all for $600... is the price good ? btw, obviously im doing this for free, so the whole $600 is for the parts...
Gaming rig usally means AMD rig! If i were you id change that to an amd processor... SOrry to be a bummer lol!
i'd drop the floppy drive, there almost useless today. i would to go with a amd rig but the best amd rig i can build for near 600 ends at about 700usd, that intel rig should do fine though =) --- MBM-A8N-SD-3500 :: Asus A8N SLI Deluxe NVIDIA Socket 939 Motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.20GHz OEM Processor (3.7 lbs) A19-1002 :: A-Data Dual Channel 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz (2 x 512MB) (0.5 lbs) TSD-200AS :: Seagate / 200GB / 7200 / 8MB / SATA-150 / OEM / Hard Drive (2 lbs) D15-1010 :: Diablo ATX Mid-Tower Case with 450Watt Power Supply, Front Neon Lights, Front USB and Audio Ports (14 lbs) P450-7834 :: XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX / 256MB GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card (1 lbs) N27-1886 :: NEC ND3550A / 16x8x16x DVD+RW / 16x6x16x DVD-RW / 8x DVD+R DL / 6x DVD-R DL / 48x32x48x CD-RW / Black / Dual Layer / OEM DVD Burner with Software (4 lbs) all parts from tigerdirect.com
