[jman1310]

Originally Posted by Etacovda

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130256
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103535
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131530

2gb of ram for bf2, SERIOUSLY - yes, its that much of a ram whore. Rams cheap nowdays, grab 2gb of value stuff from a decent brand.

work around that, he'll be extremely happy if you can put something together of that variety. Graphics cards > all now days, cpu's are becoming less important. You'll need a decent psu.

Motherboard is a known reliable board, and cheap.

X700's should be thrown in the trash and compacted with your foot...

raptors are nice, but they only really decrease load times - if you're forced to downgrade other hardware for the raptor, just dont...

explain exactly what you have to buy, and what you dont....

he's been playing on my machine with striped 74 raptors - it's nice to be the 1st one on a map

X700s have been working well for us - this isn't to be a uber gaming rig, just a mid-range and an upgrade is planned in about a year at which time this machine will be turned into a server and a real gaming machine built

2gb seems high for a game that only uses 600mb...

can you recommend a good PSU? I like Antec but have heard lots of bad things about them here

Thanks