Posted 02/06/2009 at 09:46:18pm

I am in the process of building a cheaper rig that I feel may have the capacity to run the newer games and still be a great all user friendly computer .. It's  listings are as follows ,,: CASE- Raidmax Scorpion ATX868 mid tower; $50.99,,,,Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-MA 78G-DS3HP AM2+/AM2 AMD780G HDMI ATX AMD motherboard;$85.99,,,, Processor-AMD ATHALON 64x2 5000 Brisbane 2.6GHz 2x512KB L2 cache Socket AM2 65W Dual core Processor;$55.99,,,Harddrive's (x2)-Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache SATA 3.0Gb/s HardDrive-OEM(2- harddrives installed ),,,Memory-G SKILL HK 4GB(2x2Gb) 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800(PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory;$49.99,,,Lite-On Black 20XDVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8x DVD+R DL 20x DVD-R 6x DVD-R;$25.99,,, I also changed out the stock power supply that comes with the case ..It comes with a 420 WATT power supply ,, I installed ;  Raidmax Hybrid 2RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ESP12V SLI Ready CrossFire ready Modular LED Power supply ;$69.98..    I havent yet,as to writing this , made up my mind as to what Video card ,( if not two cards) I will install .  Will you give me some feed back as to whether you think this will pan out for my ,, general computing and just playful gaming uses may or may not be considered a good system for the buck ???