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This was sent to me by the new guy who is supposed to build my rig. Any advice will be appreciated.

System Color- Black
OS- Windows XP Professional
Tower- Dracula Gaming Case Silver
Power Supply- PC Cooling Quiet 750 Watt.
Processor- Intel Core 2 Duo 4300+
Motherboard- Biostar TSeries TForce 945P
Memory- GSkill 2 GB DDR2
Hard Drive- 500 GB SATA2
Optical Drive- 16X DVD-ROM
- Pioneer 18X DVD Burner
Network Card- 10/100 Mbps
Video Card- EVGA 320MB 8800GTS

I believe the Vid Card is a clone of NVidia and if so I will have him get the 'genuine' Nvidia 8800 card. I will probably bump up the RAM to 4GB.

:FI:AltarBoy wrote:Processor- Intel Core 2 Duo 4300+
Motherboard- Biostar TSeries TForce 945P
Memory- GSkill 2 GB DDR2

If you can swing it, I would go for a motherboard with a P965 chipset. It supports faster RAM (DDR2 800), quad-core CPUs, and performs much better than the 945 in general performance (hard-disk read/write, USB device performance, etc.). A Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 would be my chip of choice right now in terms of performance/price.

If you decide to stick with the 945 chipset board then you'll only need RAM capable of 667MHz however if you go for the 965 you can get 800MHz RAM. Will give you a quicker loading, and generally more responsive system.

:FI:AltarBoy wrote:Hard Drive- 500 GB SATA2
Optical Drive- 16X DVD-ROM
- Pioneer 18X DVD Burner
Network Card- 10/100 Mbps

Any board made in the last year or two should come with an onboard network card and most of the recent ones should have gigabit (1000Mbps) cards as standard.

:FI:AltarBoy wrote:Video Card- EVGA 320MB 8800GTS

These days all of the nVidia cards are made by nVidia themselves and then shipped to their partners who basically add a software bundle, a warranty and occasionally, a new cooler. EVGA have a fantastic warranty (I think it's lifetime). So it isn't an nVidia clone, it's an actual nVidia card with EVGA branding.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

Moe

Thanks, m8. I'll look into the chipset and decide. May go with your advice.