Project: 3x Nes

[billygoat333]

this is awesome... love old nintendos. have a top loader and dog bone controllers. awesome.

+rep for an original idea.

[Bopher]

So I've been putting off posting a parts list until now. I don't know why I've been delaying but I decided tonight to go ahead and put it up and let you guys pick it apart. This is going to be a gaming PC and I tried to put it somewhere in the range to run WoW, BF2, Supreme Commander looks fun. I know I will probably have to upgrade within the next year or so but bear with me here.

Motherboard:

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103773
Video:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133203
HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136037
PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817709012
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134384
DVDROM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827101131
And for when I figure out how to get a Nintendo Stripped down and installed in the middle:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Philips-TV-Tuner...QQcmdZViewItem

Also its will probably be running Vista Home on it. Please pick apart and if you have better suggestions for parts let me know.

[Drum Thumper]

What motherboard are you planning on?

Also, spend a bit more money on your PSU and your video card. You'll thank me later.

Suggestions? Ok:

Spend an extra $15 on the video card and get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130293

$90 for this PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817171013

And get yourself another 250 gig hard drive, slap your OS on an 80 gig and run the two 250s in RAID 0 for maximum performance in video games.

That's what I would do anyways.

[Bopher]

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=GA-MA69VM-S2
Ok try that one. I know its not the best board on newegg but I need to stay cheap. I'll take a look at the others you suggested though thanks.

[Bopher]

Ok, here's an updated parts list. My wife fried her computer so I placed the extra parts from mine, PSU and RAM, into hers and will have to reuse the HDD. This means I'll be without a CD Burner until I decide to find another PSU for my Dell Dimension. But that was eventually just going to be turned into a media or file server down the road anyway.

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813128043
Video:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814130293
PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817255010
CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819103206
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820134384

Again it will probably be running Vista Home Basic. That seems to have the options I might need in an OS. I'll reuse my 40 gig HDD from the Dell until I have a little spare cash and then I'll drop in a 250 gig and just run the OS off of the 40. TV Card will have to wait a bit but I'm still trying to figure out how to relocated the NES motherboard and my wife got me a 16x DVD ROM for Christmas this year so thats taken care of. Most of this will probably live in the dimension case until my friend comes around with 3x's drive cages he was welding for me.
All I'm looking for is the system to play WoW for now without to much lag and I think this setup will do it. The board can be upgraded later with the 6000+ that I wanted first but I need something cause the laptop is a pain to disconnect when I need it at work.

[Spawn-Inc]

i would not get that cheapo brand psu, don't skimp on the psu. i would stick with one of the follow psu's.

Eneremax
PC Power and Cooling
Silverstone
Seasonic
Thermaltake
Antec
Tagan

[Drum Thumper]

The 'if it feels heavy, it's good' train of thought really applies to PSUs. My CoolerMaster 650w weighs nearly 3 times more than what the no name 500w PSU it replaced.

Something to keep in mind.

[Bopher]

I'll probably go higher on the PSU, I thought I had even less $ then I do to get things with so that should fix that.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817171013
I'll probably go with this one like Drumthumper suggested.

[Drum Thumper]

I'll probably go higher on the PSU, I thought I had even less $ then I do to get things with so that should fix that.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817171013
I'll probably go with this one like Drumthumper suggested.

Two words on that PSU--Rock Solid. I'm running the rat tail version in my gaming rig and the modular version in my server.

[D1337]

I wouldnt run Vista on your system, it will be a resource hog unless you turn off alot of services and features, which then it will only be slightly better.

Why exactly do you want it over XP?

I use vista, on two computers, a laptop and my gaming rig, The laptop, has slightly worse specs then your PC, but the performance SUCKS.
On my Gaming rig, it runs fine, with 4 gigs of ram,a raptor, an 8800, 680i,and e6750.