CRITIQUE: Your thoughts on this Gaming Rig

[JoeBlackSpade]

Hey guys,

I wanted to tap your knowledge base a little.

Is this a great deal?


Motherboard:

GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-DQ6 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX

Video:

Supported is Crossfire: SAPPHIRE 100225L Radeon HD 3870 512MB
> 256-bit
>supports eventual upgrade to quad core Phenom
>supports up to 16GB RAM


Case:

Antec Somba III Case with


Power Supply:

750 Watt PSU

Hard Drives:

> 2 WD 160GB SATA 3.0 RAID Drives

RAM:

4GB RAM (2X2GB DDR2 6400))
>

Processor: AMD 6400 Black Edition (3.2GHz) Dual Core




No monitor, keyboard or peripherals (have all those already).


$1050 assembled, installed, delivered to doorstep.

1 year warranty, parts and labor.



Is this a great deal?

 

[paridhm]

These are the totals I came up with.

Motherboard = 257
Video Card = 222
Harddrives = 56.13 x 2 = 112.26
Memory = 35.39 x 2 = 70.78
CPU = 174

I'm not sure about the case. Without the case that comes to $896.03 if you bought all of them separately.

Btw, that motherboard can accept faster memory (can accept 1066 mhz). You can get ddr2 pc2-8500 which is 1066 mhz for $73.98 for a 2 gig kit. That would be $147.96 for 2 kits.

So overall I guess that is not too bad of a price. I don't know why you're going with AMD. Their CPU's are very inferior to Intel's. Where are you getting this deal?

 

[JoeBlackSpade]

Hey paridhm, sorry i didn't reply sooner. I've been working and traveling a bit too much.

Well i ended up with a totally different system, which is:

AMD 6400 BE
8GB RAM (still DDR2)
HD3870X2 (2X512MB) Video Card (awesome)

Plus a bunch of other stuff!

I'll post the specs later!

Thanks for your response though dude.