Posted: 5/19/2010 12:44:20 PM EDT
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Computer is mainly for gaming with headphones (HD580), music, watching TV, and surfing arfcom. Games I am interested include Dragon Age: Origins, Crysis Maximum Edition, Mass Effect 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2: Limited Edition, Fallout 3, Arma 2, Alpha Protocol.
I have put a lot of thought into these components and now I am looking for feedback. ASUS 27" LCD Monitor$350 HIS Turbo HD 5870 1GB 256bit Video Card$431 Intel Core i7 930 Processor$289 ASUS P6X58D-E SATA 6Gb/s USB3.0 Motherboard$230 OCZ 6GB DDR3 1600 RAM$186 Sony Optiarc CD/DVD Burner$22 Antec Three Hundred Case$50 Samsung Spinpoint F3 SATA 3Gb/s$90 Corsair 850W Power Supply$140 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 TV Tuner$124 ASUS Xonar Essence ST PCI$210 Logitech Z523 40w Speakers$85 Logitech Microphone$20 Total$2,227 ETA: I am looking to stay around the $2k mark but it is not firm. |
| Not sure about the radeon issues. I will look into it. Any other help would be appreciated. Any new technologies coming out. This mobo has 6.0Gb/s SATA and USB 3.0. But curious if anything else is on the horizon. The new six cores should be hitting the market soon, AMD already has theres. |