alright, any thoughts or suggestiong here:
case:
COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068$50motherboard:
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128500$140video card: (I looked for a while, but it seems like most of the intel motherboards didn't have onboard video?)
GIGABYTE GV-N84STC-512I Rev2.0 GeForce 8400 GS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125359$30power supply:
Antec NEO ECO 620C 620W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371031$70CPU:
Intel Core i5-2300 Sandy Bridge 2.8GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115076$185RAM:
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311$65hard drive:
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136795$60DVD burner:
HP 24X Multiformat DVD Writer 24X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140042$25misc:
Rosewill RTK-002 Anti-Static Wrist Strap
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16899261005$5Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007$12-------------------------
Total cost = $642So this one breaks the budget.
and with the cost on Win 7 on top of that, I'm probably looking at the $800 - $830 range.
It's $100-$130 over budget, but at least it doesn't blow the roof off the budget. I could probably swing it, but it's not ideal.
The CPU is a nice step up from the previous CPU's discussed in this thread.
For reference:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.htmlIntel Core i5-2300 is rated at 5,478
AMD Phenom II X4 955 is rated at 3,955
Intel Core i3-2100 is rated at 3,829
any thoughts on this build?
any hardware changes where I could save some money, without giving up too much performance?
For motherboards, did I miss any good ones with on-board video?
If you've got any other motherboard suggestions, I'd like it to have both SATA 3 (6Gb/), and USB 3.
Thanks again to everyone who has provided input.