I am saving more and more money, and am closing on my now changed goal of a $800 PC. I have decided to probably torrent Vista Home Premium 64-bit so that I will be able to save myself a nice $134.99. I have decided to buy my PC's parts at tigerdirect.ca as the actual retail store is only about 45 minutes from my house, and as I believe newegg only ships in the U.S. Right now the specs for the PC I want to buy are:
Motherboard - Asus M2N-SLI MotherboardCPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz OEMRam(800mhz) - Crucial 2048MB Dual Channel PC6400 DDR2 Hard Drive - Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB Hard DriveDVD Drive - Lite-On DH-20A4P-04 OEM DVD BurnerCase - Ultra X-Blaster Mid-T CasePSU - Ultra LSP650 650-Watt Power SupplyGPU - XFX GeForce 8800 GT Video Card - Zalman Edition, 512MB DDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTVAlso the games that I have decided to buy are:Sins of a Solar EmpireOrange BoxLost Planet: Colonies EditionCompany of Heroes: Opposing FrontsEnemy Territory: Quake WarsGears of War(Maybe)8925 hits as of writing thisGraydon Armstrong
What about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?
8928I have owned Oblivion for over a year on the 360, so I think I can count it out for gaming list. Same with COD4; which I have also overplayed.
Ah, ok.
Torrenting an OS is silly, but seeing as you're doing it, make sure you get an SP1 one.
Get an ATi 4850 instead of the Gt, $199 and it performs better.
My motherboard is a SLI board though, not a crossfire.