Aw, geez, now you made me log into NewEgg.
(Not a top-performance rig, but one that can probably run most games... with a caveat.)
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 810
Memory: Corsair XMS3 3GB *
Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB (slightly underclocked to minimize noise -- not like I'm going to run Crysis on this thing)
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-520HX *
CPU fan: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
HDD: Western Digital WD6401AALS 640 GB
Enclosure: Antec P180 Black
Input: Logitech ultra-flat / MX Revo
Audio: Turtle Beach USB + Sennheiser headphones / OLD Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers (onboard audio is NOISY)
Yup, I went for the AMD Dragon config. It's no i7, but an i7 rig would've pushed my budget into 4 digits. Quad core is nice, but I don't often do parallel processing unless I'm encoding something. Best thing about the rig is: it runs consistently under 50 degrees C, even the video card. That means I can hardly hear the fans in the P180 enclosure; the only noise, if ever, comes from a spinning DVD drive.
* However, sometimes the system freezes up without logged events or even a BSOD, and I suspect either mismatched RAM or a wimpy PSU. Then again, 90% of my stability problems were fixed by updating the video card drivers to standard-issue ATI software. Now, it hardly freezes up unless I run something horribly coded like
Command & Conquer Generals, and it has to really push the graphics card.
