Feedback on my proposed rig?

I like this because it is all very well balanced; you don't really have a huge bottleneck in there.

My advice would be to split that 500 gb into maybe two 250's, or a 250 and a 500. Have a system drive and a data/backup drive; makes things easier.

Newegg has a $20 corsair deal, go for it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

With the money you save there, invest it on the GPU, the GPU is your biggest bottleneck right now. Shoot for a 9800 gtx.

With this setup, you will not max out GTA IV, you will be able to get pretty close, i think, with the 9800 gtx.

AMD Athlon 64 X2

Old, slow architecture. Not a good choice for gaming.

Better choice: Intel Core 2 Duo, such as the budget e5200 (will need overclocking for better speeds) or e8400 (overclock not required, but will vastly improve).

If you have the money, go for a AMD Phenom 2

GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3

Nothing to say. This depends on what CPU you are going to go with, if Intel, go for an P45 chipset motherboard. Try not to spend over $120 on this component.

GeForce 9500 GT

If you're on a budget, well... lets just say this won't get you very far performance-wise. The 9500 GT barely scrapes the bottom of the barrel in the gaming sense.

For GTA4 to perform smoothly even on LOW settings, you will need at least an 9800 GT.

There is a promotion here:

http://promotions.newegg.com/Intel/031209/index.ht...

See that 4th and the 5th deal down the bottom? That will give you a reasonably good combo for CPU and Mobo. Add in a 9800 GT and you're good.

It definitely won't run GTA4 with max graphics. The CPU and video card are pretty crappy. Especially the CPU... it's quite low-end. The video card is pretty low end as well.

On the plus side, it's all compatible.

For a relatively good gaming computer, you usually want to spend about $200 on a CPU, $100-200 on a GPU, and at least $100 on a motherboard.

Try and shell out for a 9600 at least. I'd say what the folk above have said is right as well.

haha my setup (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvzKJ... will work better and its cheaper more air 3.0 ghz proccesor overclocking easier. sorry that links broken here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvzKJ...