Heres the system I put together for you.
No Case, because they are expensive to ship, better off with a locally sourced one.
I over spent on the motherboard, so you could shave $100 off the price there. I chose an extremely high quality one with lots of upgrade potential. Also you could cut the price another $50 easily if you cut the 4870 back to a standard 512mb version.
Specs:
- ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX $188
- AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz + COOLER MASTER UCP RS700-AAAAA3 700W combo $238
- 750GB Baracuda $75 OEM
- Saphire HD 4870 1GB $240 with custom cooler
- 2x2GB G.Skill ram DDR2 1066 $50
- Samsung DVD burner $25
Total comes to $816 pre shipping/tax, tax is listed at $67 shipping is $17 (My Newegg account is set to California, so tax will be different.)
Woops, Newegg stopped responding.
Anyway there are options to save about $150 off this price between the Motherboard and Video card and the system will be about as good. It depends whether $1000 is the top end or middle of the budgeted range.
Tease.
