Building a new computer... suggestions?

[El Duderino]

Galaki said:

106.99

Asus M2A-VM-HDMI AMD Socket AM2 ATX Motherboard / Audio / Video / DVI / HDMI / PCI Express / Gigabit LAN / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID

159.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.50GHz / 1MB Cache / 1000MHz (2000 MT/s) FSB / Socket AM2 / Dual-Core (Brisbane) / Processor with Fan

148.99

Asus EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/256M nVidia 8600GT Chipset (540Mhz) 256MB (1.4Ghz) DDR3 Dual DVI PCI-Express Graphics Card

112.29

Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 Matched Pairs 2GB kit (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12 240-pin Dual Channel Memory

How's this? (cut back on cpu/mb and boost vid card)

I can also do away with the overkill keyboard/mouse. But I would really like to keep the 22'' screen :) Is that card good for 1680x1050?

edit: formatting to make it easy to read

 

Personally I wouldn´t go with a 8600G, just because they are new doesn´t make them top of the line, they are hardly any better than my 7800GS but cost more, if you don´t want to replace it within the next year you´ll really need a 8800 the difference in performance is huge. the rest sound very good IMO.

Here is a site (it german but you don´t need to read anything) that will show you what GPUs are out and how they compare. http://www.3dchip.de/Grafikchipliste/Leistung_Graka.htm

the 8600GT is worse than the better 7XXX searies, rigth now a 8800Ultra is the best but for the price its not much better than a GTX so thats really the best right now, or you could go with a 7900GTX or a X1900XTX if you don´t whant to spent so much, I here the X2900XT (Radeon DX10 card) isn´t that good yet so you might want to wait if you like ATI, if you want to have a year without worries I´d deffinitly go 8800GTX or GTS.