Well I will be making a gaming and video, Photo editing rig so I will need high end everything so how does this look?

Monitor: LG W2242T 22" Wide Screen LCD Monitor

CPU: Intel Q9550 CORE 2 QUAD, 2.83GHz, FSB 1333MHz

PSU: CZ / GameXStream / 700-Watt

Video Card: XpertVision ATI HD4870 Sonic PCI-E 2.0 512MB GDDR5

Case: NZXT TEMPEST BLACK WITH SIDE PANEL BLUE LED

Motherboard: Intel DP45SG Motherboard - Intel P45 Express, Socket 775, DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Hackintosh!

Speakers: LOGITECH R-10 SPEAKER

Keyboard: Logitech Cordless Desktop LX310 Laser, Keyboard + Mouse

Ram: Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 2048MB)

Optical Drive: SONY AD7200A INTERNAL 20X DVD BURNER IDE BLACK OEM

HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB SATA/300 7200RPM 16MB HDD

Does this build look suitable? The benchmark will be crysis on max.
Yes the hdd says green and it's good for the environment so im doing my part.
Will I have any problems? Does this look good for a $1800 (AUD) Budget?

This message was edited by Pr3tzals on Nov 30 2008.

This message was edited by Pr3tzals on Dec 01 2008.

This build will tear up games. In this day, if a build can tear up games, it will use any other software out. If you have a gaming machine... you have a killer machine.

Well thx Im happy to hear thats its a good build is tiger direct a good website to buy my parts from has anyone had any problems?
And does the overclocking switch on my video card seem like a good deal?

I've never had any probs from tiger direct. Although, I prefer newegg.com for fast shipping and good prices.

I just saw this and for $1800 im impressed

APUS Intel Q9550 CORE 2 QUAD 2.83GHz ULTIMATE GAMING MACHINE - Intel Core 2 QUAD Q9550, 2.83GHz, 4GB DDR2 800 KINGSTON HYPERX RAM, 1TB SATAII Hard Drive, 20x DVD burner, Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 video card, 7.1Channel Audio, GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 PCIE 2.0 motherboard, 700 watt True Power supply, NZXT Tempest Gaming Case

would that kill my system but that doesnt come with monitor,keyboard, mouse or speakers so would it be worth it?

Oh and the place im getting my parts from has a buy 3 parts and free shipping so which orser should I but these parts in?

That system looks similar to the one you are/were planning to build. Only it's a faster processor. I can't say much on the parts in it but it does look like a good deal.

Only thing is, it does not include a monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers. But all of that you can get for a decent price.

All looks great, except the CPU. For marginally more you could go for the q9550, breaking you into the high end and giving you a far better proc.

That's a DDR3 motherboard, the RAM you picked is DDR2.

@Mainguy

Well Ive gone and chosen the q550 because it was only $70 more expensive so that isnt a problem

@Linkrox I will try to find some ddr3 ram

Well my system compared to that one for $1800 is better because I pretty much have the same thing but very close in performance

Mine build comes with the same parts or similar and for cheaper and mine comes with monitor, mouse and keyboard

Do you plan on doing any overclocking? Because if you do, stay away from Intel boards.

Oh I was planning to get my cpu to 3ghz so should i get a new mobo?

Intel's motherboards are bleh. I would recommend Asus.

Ok checkout this that is the final build

Closed by request and because a newer thread was made.

In the future, it may be better to keep it all in one thread so everyone dosnt have to look back and forth between two threads to see what everyone said .