16.07.2008, 21:31
I'd recommed:
CPU: The Q6600 is good
Motherboard: G31 is crap. Don't skimp on the motherboard. You want at least a P35 chipset, preferably on a board made by Gigabyte. ASUS had become pretty flaky as of late. I'd recommend the GA-EP35-DS3L or just the vanilla GA-P35-DS3L. It's still a budget board but one that will give you all of the features you really need plus a few others. It's also extremely stable and overclocks well for its price.
Memory: Unless you are on a 64bit operating system, anything over 2-3GB is no needed. I'd stick with 2GB of higher end RAM, such as Crucial Ballistix.
Video Card: Look into an HD4850 or HD4870. Both of these cards outperform the 9800. Let me just say that there is a reason that Nvidia is cutting prices left and right at this time, and it's not because they don't feel like making as much money as usual... ATI is really sticking it to them with the HD4000s.
I'd recommend a Seagate 7200.11 drive over the Western Digital ones. I have a 750GB Caviar SE16, and even a 500GB Seagate can really leave my drive behind in access times/read speeds/pretty much everything.
CPU: The Q6600 is good
Motherboard: G31 is crap. Don't skimp on the motherboard. You want at least a P35 chipset, preferably on a board made by Gigabyte. ASUS had become pretty flaky as of late. I'd recommend the GA-EP35-DS3L or just the vanilla GA-P35-DS3L. It's still a budget board but one that will give you all of the features you really need plus a few others. It's also extremely stable and overclocks well for its price.
Memory: Unless you are on a 64bit operating system, anything over 2-3GB is no needed. I'd stick with 2GB of higher end RAM, such as Crucial Ballistix.
Video Card: Look into an HD4850 or HD4870. Both of these cards outperform the 9800. Let me just say that there is a reason that Nvidia is cutting prices left and right at this time, and it's not because they don't feel like making as much money as usual... ATI is really sticking it to them with the HD4000s.
I'd recommend a Seagate 7200.11 drive over the Western Digital ones. I have a 750GB Caviar SE16, and even a 500GB Seagate can really leave my drive behind in access times/read speeds/pretty much everything.