I'd go for the E8400, way better OC possibilities, and a lot faster in games. C2D is fine for the games your gf plays. They won't be using 4 cores @ all, so c2d is enough. E8400 is the best choice then, 0.16 Ghz slower then E8500, but that costs a lot more, so I'd keep the E8400. About graphics card, what Khaos1337 said, go for the 8800GTS 512, and yes, only 512, it has the G92 core, same as 8800GT, the 8800GTS 320 and 640 got the G80, that isn't performing as good as the 512 by far. Difference between 8800GTS and 8800GT is about 10~15%, so not a really big difference, especially not very noticable in games like Sims and WoW, but I'd take it anyway, difference is only 9 bucks, so thats affordable ;).
The rest looks fine 2 me, very good mobo, Gigabyte owns with P35 chipsets, so ur good with that, HDD looks fine, case is good, everything looks fine except for the dvd-rw. I'd take the Lite-On LH-20A1S, one of the fastest, and prolly faster then the LG and very affordable.
Help with build please!!!!
Antec Nine Hundred Mid Tower Gamer Case
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5IN 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L ATX LGA775 P35 1333FSB 1PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 3PCI SATA2 Sound GBLAN Motherboard
Evga E-GEFORCE 8800GT Superclocked 650MHZ 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E
Lg GSA-H55N Black DVD+RW 20X8X16 DVD-RW 20X6X16 Int Ide 2MB Oem Dvd Writer W/ Sw
OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-800 CL4-4-4-15 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor LGA775 3.0GHZ Wolfdale 1333FSB 6MB Oem
OCZ GameXStream 600W ATX12V 24PIN SLI Ready Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black
any comments? the price of the cpu is $195.99 CDN, is there any cpus with much better performance for only say 20 bucks more?
thanks
If you want a better GPU, you can get the 8800GTS 512mb (only the 512mb one)
It's only 9 dollars more than 8800gt, will it actually be a whole lot better?
About graphics card, what Khaos1337 said, go for the 8800GTS 512, and yes, only 512, it has the G92 core, same as 8800GT, the 8800GTS 320 and 640 got the G80, that isn't performing as good as the 512 by far. Difference between 8800GTS and 8800GT is about 10~15%, so not a really big difference, especially not very noticable in games like Sims and WoW, but I'd take it anyway, difference is only 9 bucks, so thats affordable ;).
The rest looks fine 2 me, very good mobo, Gigabyte owns with P35 chipsets, so ur good with that, HDD looks fine, case is good, everything looks fine except for the dvd-rw. I'd take the Lite-On LH-20A1S, one of the fastest, and prolly faster then the LG and very affordable.
Sorry for the big text ^^
thanks for help guys :P
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