[immy3]

I was looking for barebones and this looks pretty nice especially for the price....

Asus P5NSLI Socket 775 Barebone Kit Intel Pentium D 940 OEM 18x DVD±RW DL ATX Mid-Tower Case 500 Watt SLI Power Supply at TigerDirect.com

Do you guys have any input on it or anything you might see wrong with it? It supports PCIe, core2duo, 4 memory slots, pretty much everything I could think of. Even comes with a pretty nice Pentium D which I'd prolly keep in there.

[darksideleader]

if ur under a tight budget sure seems pretty good. Though i would try to find a board with a Core 2 Duo.

[immy3]

I don't have a lot of $$ to spend so this does look good to me. I figure if I get some extra $$ later its always upgradeable to even quad core so it's pretty good future-wise as well.

[Jumping_Bean514]

Fantastic budget build... Will overclock very well.

Case: Coolermaster CAC-T05-WW Centurion 5 $49.99 Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Power: FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX400-PN $43.99
Newegg.com - FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX400-PN, RoHS, 12cm FAN, version 2.2, 2 SATA, 20+ 4 pin, PCI Express, 400W Power Supply - Retail

Motherboard: BIOSTAR TFORCE 550 Socket AM2 $79.99
Newegg.com - BIOSTAR TFORCE 550 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 550 MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane $65.00
Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane 1.9GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - OEM

Ram: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) $154.99
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Graphics: EVGA GeForce 7600GT 256MB $109.99
Newegg.com - EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB $69.99
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Optical: SAMSUNG Black 18X $30.99
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner - OEM

CPU Cooler: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro $29.99
Newegg.com - ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail

Total $634.92 + shipping

Want more speed? get a 8800gts 320 and a Hiper psu, putting you at $855.92

[immy3]

That is a pretty nice build...hmmmm....decisions decisions.

I still got some time to decide, gotta make some money first.

[immy3]

Would that build be possible with an equally priced core2 supporting board?

[Nagasama]

Originally Posted by immy3

Would that build be possible with an equally priced core2 supporting board?

i dont think so.
that build listed above is the fastest rig you can build for that much money.
everyone has their opinions on RAM and gpu...but i think we all agree that the x2 3600 and t550 is the way to go if you want cheap/versatile/FAST for the dough.

[immy3]

True, you can't beat it and it looks from the reviews that it's easily overclocked.

Thanks for that build man

The mobo and everything works in that case right? (I'm paranoid cause I own a Dell right now)