Well it's not finished quite yet but currently it's on it's way. This is what I have now: Processor: AMD Phenom Black 2.5 Ghz Quad Core - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249 RAM: 4 gigs of G-Skill DDR2 1000 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231145 Video Card: A Low end Sapphire(That's the only brand of GFX I use) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102729 Mainboard: A Small Biostar Triforce which surprisingly came with some great overclocking settings. I'm overclocked to 2.75Ghz, running at 45 degrees Celsius and this is using the stock heatsink. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138105 Burner - Simple Lite-ON DVD Burner, I have a better SONY that's IDE that I bought from Bestbuy, both are awesome though - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106263 Speakers - Some amazing Logitech speakers. I can blast the crap out of it and shake my house and for gaming, games like Oblivion almost sound real. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121006 That's it for now. The case I'm using was given to me a while back and is pretty plain, no special HDD and the monitor I'm using is an old CRT monitor but when I can save up enough another 1500 dollars(just 2 paychecks!), this is what I'll have: RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 - I'll have 8 gigs total of this brand, my old sticks will go to my siblings - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227289 Heatsink: The ZALMAN CNPS 9700 to make sure my Overclocking keeps my board cool - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118020 Case: This is an Antec case that I can lock to keep people off my PC. I hate it when people just get on my PC. Also it just looks awesomely sleek and won't be a nightlight in my room - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129025 Videocard: A bad ass Sapphire card shall take up the only PCI Express 2.0 slot I have. I never crossfire them or anything and it supports the HDMI setup I want, Crysis at max settings, and will be good for a while. If I get a good enough Christmas bonus I'll go ahead and grab the 2 gig card but for now, this is the one - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102795 Power Supply: I've worked with a total of 4 OCZ GameXStream 700 watt power supplies and love them. It's powerful, has a 5 year no hastle warranty and is just bad ass looking in my friends Antec 900 case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341002 HDD: The terabyte and a half Seagate. It's fast, holds everything I want and more and for someone like me who copies everything to my PC makes this indispensable. I use Daemon's Tools Pro which can support 32 virtual drives. I hate scratching my CDs and DVDs so I want to put them in my Dick Drive ONCE and never have to do it again. With all this space it makes it much easier on me. Hell I may get two strictly for ISO back up - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148337 Input Devices: The Keyboard I'm getting is this really nice, carpal tunnel preventive Logitech keyboard. My job is working with PCs and I love to cook and not being able to type, game and cook would kill me - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126033 The Mouse I'm getting is the Logitech MX Air which can be used normally like any only mouse or in the Air like a Wii-mote - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104089 Soundcard: A really nice Creative card to accommodate my sound system - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102024 Monitor/TV: I'm gonna be feeling awesome when I finally get this set up finished. The two screens I'll be using is this nice Samsung monitor here - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001268 and this 46in plasma screen TV here - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889187085 The TV is gonna be for gaming and movies while the monitor is for everyday PC use and will be complete when wireless HDMI becomes available. I really can't wait for this. I have a few other things I want like a webcam and such but it doesn't overall affect my PC. Total my newegg saved list(webcam and such too)is a grand total of $3,211.85. Thankfully by not having many expenses along the way this is almost completely possible and hopefully nothing happens within the next 2 months. Here's a link to the list if you want - http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=10590108 What do you guys think?
Starting out with an AMD Phenom wasn't the best idea in the world, but it will do I suppose (If you haven't ordered this lot yet, for the love of god, change it for a Core 2 Quad and Intel board) The rest of the build is pretty good. OCZ GameXStream units aren't very good (yes, you've built with them, but trust me, a 700W GameXStream will suffer at any more than half that), but since you should be under 300W you should be alright.
I was given this AMD and am quite pleased with it. If I wanted to spend more I'd get a DDR3 Mainboard with a quad set up due to epic RAM speed but This AMD is fine and really kicks ass for the price. It surprised me greatly. As far as the GameXStream power supply goes, we use the mess out of it all the time with no issues. The first one I put in a machine is being powered by that supply and has a RAID set up with a total of 12 different HDDs, 6 via promise cards and it's a high usage server which we use for data transfer at our home office and it hasn't faulted once. All our PC get files of of that thing and it backs up all our data and it's using that power supply. For real personal use we've gamed with a Vista based rig, with Crysis to the Max level of settings and had numerous programs running in the background to see what the machine could do before we made it a server and never had a problem. The only problem i've seen is that people aren't getting rebates back which I don't ever do half the time. Does anyone else have more info on this build?
