Need Your Advice/Opinions/Suggestions on this Setup

[dellnomore]

What do you think? I'm not a HUGE gamer but I'd prefer to be able to run most of them and have a quick pc at that

Motherboard - nForce 780i SLI FTW
$205

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W
$320

Video Card - EVGA 896-P3-1264-AR e-GeForce GTX260 SSC Edition 896MB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card
$300

RAM - Kingston HyperX 4 GB (2x 2GB) PC2-6400 CL5 240-Pin DIMM Kit KHX6400D2K2/4GR
$65

Power Supply - Thermaltake W0116RU Toughpower 750W Power Supply with Active PFC
$180

Fan - Zalman CNPS 7700 CU LED - 120mm LED Fan Pure Copper CPU Cooler
$55

Screen - ASUS VH226H Black 21.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen 16:9 Full HD 1080P LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 12000 : 1)
$200

Misc $300/max

Totals to about $1,625 USD ($1,944 CAD)


So what do you think? Is there anything you would add/take away/change?

 

[JJCG]

If your going to be spending that much, you might want to consider getting an i7 setup.

 

[worshipme]

I'd agree about getting an i7 setup, it won't actually cost much more as you could probably save a bit on the GPU.

i7 920
Gigabyte X58
3x1GB DDR3 1333

You can get a GTX 260 for cheaper than $300, but since that motherboard supports CF, I'd recommend going with a HD 4870, it's pretty much identical in performance to the GTX 260.

If you're not overclocking, don't bother with an aftermarket cooler, stock cooling will be fine and you can save some money.

You can save some money on the PSU as well, this will be more than sufficient for that build.

 

[dellnomore]

The only thing about the i7 setup was I could only install ddr3 on them, and after reading things on ddr3 vs ddr2 I didn't hear many good things about the former

 

[metin]

Well i7 is the future of computers
i7 reminds me of the quads, I know someones gonna jump all over this post and tell me I'm wrong, but if you want a future-proof computer go with the i7
i7 is useful for multi-threaded applications, so are quads
I believe they're also good for gaming because they are just so fast; but they do get hot.

 

[worshipme]

The only thing about the i7 setup was I could only install ddr3 on them, and after reading things on ddr3 vs ddr2 I didn't hear many good things about the former

There isn't anything bad about DDR3, it's just until i7, there was no reason to choose it over DDR2.