New Build Help

Indobos · 06-15-2007, 04:57 PM

Hello all, First post and was wondering. I am wanting to do a new build. This will be my first so I am asking for recommendations. I Mostly play strategy games. Since I got too addicted to WOW. Role playing and strategy games are what I am kinda into. with an occasional shooter game as well. I want to build a system for around $700. I would like this system to be able to be upgraded later. If that is possible. But I would like it to last for a bit. I don't need the latest and greatest and I am not too concerned with multitasking. Maybe have Itunes running in the background as I play a game would be cool. I also have to have something for downloading pictures and burning cd's. I like the Lightscribe thing that allows you to scribe the disks. If you could please help me out with this I would really appreciate any and all suggestions. Thank you

b1gapl · 06-15-2007, 05:14 PM

Hey Indobos,
Welcome to T.F.!!!

Heres a budget C2D build to consider:

Case - Cooler Master Centurion 5
Motherboard - Gigabyte 965P-DS3 (rev1.3)
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6320
RAM - 2 x 1GB G. Skill DDR2-800 NQs
Graphics - Sapphire X1950XT 256MB
Power Supply - Rosewill RP550 550W
Hard drive - Western Digital 160GB 16mb cache
Optical drive - Sony NEC Optiarc DVD Burner

Comes to $725.43 w/o shipping.

Indobos · 06-15-2007, 05:40 PM

Thanks b1gapl, that was a fast response. I forgot I need an OS as well. What should I use. And would it be more beneficial to upgrade anything. maybe thow a hundy or two at this sytem to upgrade something? But thanks again for your promt response. I am dying to press the purchase button.