New build...with some temporary parts??

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Hi all, I recently left the UK (about a month ago) and i am starting to miss a PC that can actually play games - mainly i just play BF2 and CS:S.

I was thinking the following:

Lian-Li V1000+ (Black)
Hiper 580w / Seasonic 500w PSU
150GB Raptor
Pioneer 111D DVD
Geforce 7900GT

However, as Conroe will be out soon i was thinking of buying the following "temporary" parts:

Opteron 144
ASUS A8N-E Motherboard (NFORCE4 Ultra)
2GB of value ram

I would then sell these later and put the money towards buying a Conroe chip, compatable motherboard and some DDR2 ram.

Good idea or not?...I brought my Samsung 172x monitor with me, so i will only be playing games at 1280x1024.

Any suggestions/changes would be great.

Thanks :)
 
Thanks for the advice, i'll take a look at finding some 2nd hand parts. The place i will be buying from has a huge sale this week as it is their 10 year aniversary...obviously can't name it...and it's a Canadian site anyways ;)

I think even the 74gb raptor would be enough for me...my old PC only had a 60gb HDD and it never even got half full!!

Yeah i know what you mean about waiting around...i've been putting off this upgrade for a long time now...

Will the release date for Conroe be the same everywhere...or might N.America get it a little earlier??
 
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