Joker,
one comment. its interesting you could spend over $200 for a power supply, and over $600 for a graphic card. But you decided to get 250 GBytes HDD for only $80...
Why not go with like 500 GBytes HDD or higher because you never know when you could runs out of space quick. Also, another curiosity question, why do you need to purchase a mouse and keyboard? why not just use the current keyboard and mouse you are having right now? Its also interesting that you spend nearly $80 for the mouse, which is about the same price tag of the 250 GB HDD. its just that i am curious that you spend a lot of dough on many other areas, but goes a bit cheap on the HDD...
i thought 850 Watts is still a bit overkill, i doubt you will ever needed that much power to power the whole computer. But it couldn\'t hurt though i guess...your choice...
Uhm..
Gaming mouse = the shit. That may be why he is spending that much on a ...GAMING mouse. Get a mouse that can switch DPI on the fly and what not, it helps a lot in FPS shooters. Gaming keyboards on the other hand, are debatable. I don\'t own one and honestly, I doubt they give you much an advantage, but I still want a sweet Logitech G15.
Also, I seriously doubt he is going to run out of 250 gigs "fast". In fact, if this is a gaming PC, with an install of Vista, he has more than enough space. Hell, if he wants pure performance, I\'d recommend just getting a 150gig Raptor X or something along those lines.
Yes, 850 watts is overkill for ONE Ultra. However, if he ever decided to SLi, add more HD\'s, add fans , another DVD-ROM, he could easily need that 850 watts. Fact is, if I keep adding to mine, I\'ll have to upgrade my PSU. It\'s a lot easier than you think to end up needing more power, so I always advise buying more than you currently need.
One more thing,Joker, as for Vista, honestly, if you\'re going to game, don\'t install Vista
yet . Right now every game that uses DirecX10 takes a huge hit on the FPS, even with an Ultra and 4 gigs of ram. Not to mention, there isn\'t a huge increase in image quality currently. I\'d advise getting your RAM, throw it in (XP will notice 3 gigs), keep running XP and enjoy it, save your money and wait for Vista SP 1 and even then, just pick up Home, you don\'t need Ultimate.
both Nvidia\'s & Ati\'s new architectures are well underway... why would anyone buy a current gen card at a premium price ? The value of that card, both in terms of resell value and performance compared to new line cards will devaluate extra rapidly.
This is what bugs me. Everyone says this, every generation and for what? You can always play the waiting game when it comes to this stuff, or you can just on board and buy out the ass for what is currently the best. Personally, I don\'t see any thing to suggest that Nvidia is about to launch a new architecture, as the 8800 is still HUGELY succesful for them.
And yes, the GT is the "sweet spot" card. If you\'re on a budget , I\'d recommend getting two of those and SLI\'ing them. Also keep in mind he has a 24 inch LCD coming in, a GT is really going to struggle at MAX resolution on that card.
Congrat\'s Joker, your rig is better than mine. Hell, I don\'t have a Quad card (will once AMD rolls out theirs tho\'!).
