So I have been out of the hardware discussions for awhile but I am now looking to purchase some new internals for my computer.  I need to upgrade the Proc, Ram and Mobo.  Anyone have any suggestions, I wanted to take advantage of New egg's black Friday sale.  I have about 500 to work with.  Here is the link to black Friday sale, I know I am getting the quad core 6600 and gskill 4 GB 1066 Ram.  So motherboard and Vid card.  I would like to stay with ATI if possible.

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEPro/PreBlk08Fri/index.html

I agree. Go with the i7 if you can. There is a new socket design with the i7, so if you stick with the older Core 2 family of procs, you're locking yourself out of future CPU-only upgrades.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Submit=view

Fail.

Quote from: sully on November 25, 2008, 12:17:38 PM

Quote from: Dwg115 on November 25, 2008, 11:27:36 AM

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Submit=view

Fail.

why fail!!!!  other then the q6600 its well within his budget!!  nevermind i see!!!

The best way to do it is to make a wish list that is public.  You can then post the link to the wish list.

Your setup is almost identical to the server setup I'm building. I went with the 4Gb 1066 Gskill and a Q6600. I decided to go MSI with the mobo (the p43 which looks pretty dang solid IMO) and am getting a WD SE16 500GB for my HD (for 60 bucks). If you can, I'd recommend the Caviar Black as they're slightly faster than the  SE16 (cost is a little more..think 75 for a 500GB). I'm in a toss up on which one I'll be purchasing (really should prob go 4 250GB in a raid 5 setup but cost doesn't justify the cost of it plus a decent raid card)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130185

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

I'd get the 4870 1 gig card if i were you.  I hear the 1gig helps a lot in certain games.

Yeah 1GB will help you at 1920x1200 but if your running only a 22" widescreen which is running 1680x1050 then you can get away with a 512 MB card and be solid (long as the core and mem clock are decent rates) When it comes to solid single cards, ATI has really stepped up there game with the 48xx series however I'd still go with an 9800 or a 260..IMO Nvidia >> ATI (despite the strong comeback because they have a multi-billion corporation backing them up..Nvidia is sorta at a handicap at the moment in my opinion)