www.abithelp.com

Asking on behalf for a ex customer, his cousin is looking to assemble a pc, main objective is for gaming and budget wise is USD $500

Processor wise it can be AMD or Intel.... objective is to get the best gaming rig at a budget price

Too bad he can't buy from New Egg, this is a really good deal: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDeal ... mbo.194454

But a lot depends on weather they want an AMD CPU or an It Smell Chris.

The following specs is suggested by him, dunno who recommend him such a high end rig and infact after calculating the overall price it double their budget

MotherBoard
>
> Asus P5Q-E P45 w/sound + G.lan
>
> Proccesor
>
> Quad - core Q9550 2.83ghz
>
> Ram
>
> Team Xtreem Dark 1066-4.0GBkit
>
> HDD
>
> WD 500 GB/16M Caviar Green Power SATA
>
> Graphic card
>
> XFX HD 4890 850m 1.GB DDR 5
>
> Power Supply
>
> COSAIR HX620w EPS - SY
>
> Monitor
>
> 22" wide LCD Screen ( Support Resulation 1600x1200)

Microsoft office and Window Vista.

So in the end i suggested the following specs instead

Quad 8200 or E8400 processor
Asus P5Q-E P45 or MSI P45 Neo2-FR
XFX 9600GT
Cooler master 500W
22 inch LCD
Western digital 500GB
Kingtson ram PC 6400 ddr2 2GX2
Cooler master M310 casing
window vista basic
Microsoft office

CPU AMDX2 7850 black 69$ ********

MB Asus M4A78 plus 80$ *******
or-- GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P 109$

mem CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 40@ after rebate
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 32$ after rebate **********

Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, With 500W Power Supply 109$********

HD Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" 49$********

Nvidia EVGA 896-P3-1255-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 160$ after rebate**********
or- EVGA 896-P3-1260-AR GeForce GTX 260 896MB 154 after rebate
or best deal EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 109--89$ after rebate or*********
ATI XFX HD-485X-YDDC Radeon HD 4850 XXX 512MB 256-bit 134-115 after rebate
I would think 4850 would play nost anything well. I use mostly Nvidia - I fold with them.

And what ever DVD burner you like 25$ on up

So for as cheap as 450-500$+ 100 for your OEM-OS if you need to buy one.
If you use on board sound.
or Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI 35$

Good luck with it

I cannot believe the 22LCD is to be in on the price of the computer for $500.

If you know anyone that is in College with a .EDU address, you can pickup Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $60

I would not buy VISTA if someone else was even paying for it. Oddly it says $64.99 for Vista Ultimate Upgrade w/SP1 But cant this be used with any qualifying Microsoft OS as the upgrade from? Like WinME or Win98 - which does not really require online activation prior to the upgrade? And then you again upgrade from within Vista to clear that out?