What hardware components to buy in the end of 2007

There are a lot different build it your own guides online. Most of them are linked to online hardware stores so you can build your new PC as you read the article.

In the past years i made some recommendation for my friends regarding hardware, and has also build a lot of systems. And more are asking me to either build a PC for them or recommend what to buy right now.

In this article i will come with recommendation about a good, not top of the line, gaming system. When someone asks me for recommendation, i usually ask them what are you going to use PC for. Some are just surfing, typing documents and so on, some are playing games, but in my head you are going to play some games even if you are just using your PC as a word proccesor or just for surfing. So i'm going to recommend to build a cheap gaming system in this article, cause as long as you play modern games on your system, you will be able to run simple internet explorer og word proccesor, or even to edit your family pictures on it.

For pricing i'm going to use www.newegg.com, cause i have good experience with that service.

So first of we're going to start with a case, case is something that houses all your components, as well as must be something that looks good compared to other components in your room. It's also have to be quiet.
For that i recommend Antec Sonata III Black, cause it's black,quiet and comes with a 500W PowerSupply.

Next is motherboard, since i'm going to build my system around nVidia video card and Intel Core2 CPU cause they give a good combination together, i'm not going to go for SLI combination
cause that will add more power requerment to this system and i'm not that fan on nforce 6 series motherboard.
So i'm goind to use ASUS P5K-E a good alround motherboard with plenty of upgrade possibilities.

For CPU i'll choose Core2 E6550 cause of it performence for price rating.

Now Memory, i'll need fast RAM and a lot of it, so we will use Mushkin PC8500 4x1GB sticks. Good price for performance.

Harddrive, you will need space if not now, i'll guarntee you will need it later, we going to use 2 of Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB, i hvae good experience with it, quiet and fast. We will set up a Raid 0 (striping) What it does is that system writes to both drives, and that adds speed. Lets say you are copying a file om 10MB, system will put 5MB on one drive and 5MB on another. You will however loose everithing if one drive gets bad, but thats why i choose Seagate. Allways have your backup stored on multiple locations!!!

Now i will need a cd/dvd player recorder, i'll use a blu ray burner, Philips SPD7000BD, it's expensive, but in one drive you get, CD/DVD burner and Blu ray DVD reader/burner.

Now the last and most impotant component, video card, nvidia released a new version of 8800GTS 512MB this fall, it's a good card, fast,cheap and good performer. eVGA 8800GTS G92.

Now since we are building complete system, you will also need, keyboard/mouse and screen.

Keyboard/mouse combos are great, we'll use Logitech diNovo combo, it looks as good as it performs.

Screen, you will need a good display, fast and big. Nothing beats BenQ 24Inch, it's huge and fast.

So there you have it a good, fast allround gaming system, Price as of today: 2530$ without shipping.