more or less go with what john said. 1GB is plety for general use but if you're gaming or doing heavy multitasking, or doing both at the same time, you'll appreciate the extra RAM. can't say anything bad about the 7600GS, decent bang/$ card plays most older games maxed(HL2 doomIII) and gives very acceptabel performance in the more demanding ones like FEAR.
ok, yea so ill shoot for 2GB then. how about this?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820145527
Id Have to say for graphics the Nvidia 7600 GS nice smooth graphics ive had one for about 3 months and it has never ceased to amaze me there is only one down-side to these type of cards, you need one more cable inside you pc for power supply and besure to get extra fans just to be on the safeside of things, I'm Running,(well not going into specifics) AMD (2.8GHZ), 2GB Ram, 500GB HD, Gigabyte Motherboard(AGP Support), Nvidia 7600 GS, 4 DVDRWs and I have 4 fans in my computer including my built in one talk about loud!
well, a few 120mm fans will help that drastically. the push alot of air, and they are about just as loud as regular 85mm
i find 120mm fans to push more air more quietly than 92mm fans... ehh must be me... if you're running stock volts at 2.8GHz it shouldn't be too bad. what are your temps, my dual core opteron loaded at 44C 2.6GHz w/ 1.264V stock cooler small whiney high RPM fans though... also a 7600GS is a cool running card, don't worry too much about ehat from it, it produces like 1/5th as much as say a 7900GTO also, IMO it is worth spending 15$ more for the 7600GT over the GS, around a 50% performance increase you know... MUCH higher core speed and lower latency memory ICs. also, if you want a cheepo kit... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820144047 then just set it to the same frequency but 3-3-3-X insteed... or leave on auto to the SPD settings...
what are all the parts that i need to buy? processor - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 or E6400 ? gfx card - hows this card = http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814130057 ?? memory - hows this = http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820150054 ?? hard drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148140 cd/dvd drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827129001 case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811144151 motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813138037 power supply - http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=PS-E5150GH&c=fr&show=r what else is needed?
that RAM is DDR1 which is incompatable with the board. my DDR2 suggestion would eb the buffalo firestix if you're going towards the high performance spectrum of RAM or this set http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820144047
ok cool, so this would work good: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820150054 was i missing any other hardware that i would need?
that set should work fine, only thing to note is that when you first startup your system you'll want to manually adjust the voltage form 1.8V to 2.1 so that the RAM is stable and doesn't start giving errors during the windows installation.
