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maroon1 · 05-03-2007, 12:35 PM

Give x850xt to your brother, and use 7900GS until mid-ranged G90 comes out....

8600GT is slightly faster than x850xt but slower than 7900GS in most of the current games...

And for the CPU I would get E4400, it cheaper than E6320 but a little more expensive than E4300
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail

And get a Hard drive with 16MB cache
Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

05-03-2007, 12:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
maroon1 Wizard Techie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,413	Re: cheapest gaming build Give x850xt to your brother, and use 7900GS until mid-ranged G90 comes out.... 8600GT is slightly faster than x850xt but slower than 7900GS in most of the current games... And for the CPU I would get E4400, it cheaper than E6320 but a little more expensive than E4300 Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail And get a Hard drive with 16MB cache Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM __________________ CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 MOBO: Intel DP35DP Video card: eVGA 8800GTS 320MB Hard drive: WD 500GB Monitor: Samsung 206BW 20" Wide OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 Last edited by maroon1; 05-04-2007 at 02:42 AM.