Good PC Deals?

[Solid_Snake]

I'm building a Computer for Gaming, and need a...

Motherboard and a Processor. Hopefully for some good gaming.

Can onyone help me out? Links if possible.

Thanks.

[Lord Dagoth]

How much are you willing to spend for the mobo and processor?

[Solid_Snake]

How much are you willing to spend for the mobo and processor?
I have a few friends that got killer deals when they bought theirs. And got a good Processor and Mobo for about $200. Is that unrealistic?

[ryushe]

^ Maybe, My friend put about $200-$300 in his graphics card alone.

[Lord Dagoth]

Not completely unrealistic

Assuming you want to go with AMD: A DFI Lanparty MOBO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152) paired with a AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103529) would be a pretty good setup for about $250.

[Solid_Snake]

Sounds good. I was searching www.pricewatch.com for some Mobo+Processor+Ram deals. But didn't find any good ones... Though, I'm computer illiterate.

[Solid_Snake]

Not completely unrealistic

Assuming you want to go with AMD: A DFI Lanparty MOBO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152) paired with a AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103529) would be a pretty good setup for about $250.
Can you recomend some good Ram to go with it?

[Leader Desslock]

I have a few friends that got killer deals when they bought theirs.
Did you ask how they found these killer deals?

[Lord Dagoth]

Corsair makes some good quality RAM for cheap, (value select in 1Gb (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145505) or 2Gb (two 1Gb modules) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145579)) If you're willing to pay more for high performance RAM, Corsair's XMS series is really good (1Gb (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145488) or 2Gb (two 1Gb modules) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145587) ).

[Chousho]

For a mobo - Asus P5W DH Deluxe
CPU - I've been reading about the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, and it sounds pretty good. I just need a job and patience, haha. A little more reasonable? Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Some good sites
http://outpost.com/
http://newegg.com/
http://zipzoomfly.com/

[Solid_Snake]

Did you ask how they found these killer deals?
Actually, the same website. Newegg.

I have no idea what things will go together and such. So I pretty much needed to con someone into telling me it. :\ As said friends don't live by me.

Thanks guys. I owe ya' a few.

[VSh]

I'd go with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor - Retail (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103735) - $152.00
EPoX EP-MF4-J3 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 4X ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123013) - $70.99
CORSAIR VALUE SELECT 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) System Memory - Retail (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145568) - $95.99
eVGA 256-P2-N612-TX Geforce 7600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130054) - $129.99 (no SLI)

[Suiko Eiji]

^ Maybe, My friend put about $200-$300 in his graphics card alone.

I laugh at that. Slashdot article rating some cheaper cards to be as good as the expensive ones (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/15/1159203). Pretty much planning on something like this for my next computer.