Alvah

I liked the above priceing for this system which was in one of the main threads. I would like some advice and such on what you could recommend, maybe swap the items from above out and give me a new overall price of what would be worth my money so I can do more of the newer games thoroughly. I posted in the video card support area and they recommended a new build, well I'd like to know what would be worth it. If I can build a good gaming comp. for around $800 that'd be perfect.

Tyree

Drop the Zalman cooler. The stock cooling unit will work fine.
I would suggest going with G.Skill-CorsairXMS-OCZ RAM.

Alvah

I see.

Is this the RAM you suggested?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231166

Now, will this system be able to run some of the better games out there right now? Or should I swap anything out so I can play like COD4 near high settings.

Also, what do you think about this motherboard?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127026

It's whats in my brothers defunct system, could I use that or do you recommend to just buy a new one?

Phædrus2401

It should run COD4 and most other games on high settings, though I'd drop the extra $50 and get a Radeon 4870 or Nvidia GTX260 and play on ultra-high/max (though if you have a really, really big monitor you might just get high with those). Using XP Home x64 SP3 instead of Vista will give you another $20 to spend, which you can use to get a Core 2 Duo E8500 instead of the E8400. If you want you can use the Windows 7 RC version (available for free until the end of June) which would give you $100 to spend, but you'd still have to pay for the Windows 7 install within a year. If you went with that option I would upgrade the PSU to a Corsair 750 watt and the GPU to a Radeon 4890 or GTX270/275.

EDIT: Buy a new motherboard unless the old one has an LGA775 socket, P45 chipset, a PCI-Express 2.0 slot, DDR2 RAM slots, and is by a respectable maker such as Asus or Gigabyte.

wrench97

The Abit board is for AMD CPU's the Intel system will run faster then the Athlon X2.

Tyree

Yes, the G.Skill is very good. That Mobo is for AMD as wrench97.
Abit Mobo's are made by ECS (not good) for Asus.
The rest of the build looks good.

Alvah

One last question:

Would it be a wiser buy to just purchase the HP Pavilion A6700F, which I can get from my Office Depot for $363.65 and just swap the graphics card?

http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...Computer-With/

Notice

AMD Phenom X4 quad-core 9150e
4GB Memory & 500GB hard drive
8-channel HD Audio

What yall think? Just want to make the right decision. I'm not sure if this would run COD4 on high if I got a better graphics card, buy yeah..

wrench97

No the 1.8Ghz Phenom is real dog of a cpu when gaming and you'll need a power supply the stock one won't power a high power card, also after changing all that you'll have voided the warranty.

Tyree

As wrench97 said, no. You will NEVER get the quality, reliability or upgrade ability of a custom build with a prebuilt.