$2,000 gaming PC build

A friend of mine told he was going to buy a Dell XPS for $2,000 and said he was going to use it for gaming. I went on there to see what kind of hardware is in it and was shocked they are using a Pentium D 930 3.0 cpu. They call this a gaming PC?


Anyway I put something together and would like for you guys to check it over and let me know what you think or make sure I didn't forget anything.


ASUS P5B Deluxe - $259.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 - $193.00 <~~ looking to OC this to about 2.4
G.SKILL 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 800 - $126.99
eVGA 7950GX2 - $522.99
Seagate 320GB (Perpendicular Recording) - $99.99
OCZ PowerStream 520W - $134.99
NEC 16x DVD Burner ND-3550A - $29.25

Lian Li PC-767 - $159.95
Thermalright ULTRA-120 - $49.95
Thermalright HR-05 - $19.99 <~~ northbridge cooler

SAMSUNG 204B-BK 20.1" 5ms LCD Monitor - $349.99


Budget: $2,000 (must include 20" monitor and PC case)

I would probably go for 2x1GB RAM, especially seeing how hungry games are getting, but other than that it looks quite good.

two one gig sticks, and I think that graphics card is kinda useless unless your going to upgrade to 2X 7950 cards. ... If your going to get that, why not get SLI 7900GT's?

ya anymore you need 2gigs of ram to be on the safe side of things

what about mouse an keyboard?

yes, definatley 2gb of ram. Also, might want to downgrade the vid card and up the cpu, if hes not comfortable with ocing.

nvidiaOCmaster said:

two one gig sticks, and I think that graphics card is kinda useless unless your going to upgrade to 2X 7950 cards. ... If your going to get that, why not get SLI 7900GT's?

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Isn't 1 7950 better than 2 7900 GT's?, plus 2 GT's would cost more.

Also if I upgrade the memory I need to downgrade something else...