I've been looking for a computer to start some gaming (nothing hardcore, just like counterstrike, half-life 2, and battlefield 2 at medium-high settings) no windows vista, probably just xp and ubuntu (hopefully with beryl)
I've heard that building your own computer was the way to go for this type of stuff, so i spent a couple of hours poking around newegg and doing some research
heh, i was hoping to get something decent for about $600.... we'll see how that goes
anyway, heres what i came up with:
cpu: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor $113.00
hard drive: the 500gb drive combo with the processor is probably too big, i might just get a 120 gb for like $50
motherboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX $139.99
ram: Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) $69.99
video card: EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 $74.99
case: XCLIO A380 Silver SECC 1.0mm thickness ATX Full Tower$96.99 + $17.99 shipping
power supply: Rosewill Stallion Series RD500-2-DB ATX V2.2 500W $32.99
dvd drives: i'll probably just find some lying around my house
rough total: $596
anyway, the questions are as follows:
will something break when i put this together?
am i missing something? (cables, fans, whatever)
is anybody familiar with SLI? is it worth it?
is this a good enough system to run most current games?
am i spending too much/too little on one component?
have you had any bad experiences with any of this stuff?
thanks for your time![]()
masq




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