Well, all I have left is the Motherboard/Processor, which should be arriving next Monday. Ugh, I wish I'd paid more for shipping so it would get here quicker. I have Bioshock sitting on my shelf just laughing at me because my current video card doesn't support Shader Model 3.0, and the card that does (the 8800 GTX) can't be installed because my current motherboard doesn't have a PCI Express port!

Oh well ... that's why my gaming platform is the X360. Simple, just plug and play! I can play many PC games on my X360 without any hiccups (as long as they are also released on the console).

xboxrulz

I had a Xbox360 at one point, but I hate playing shooters on consoles (with the exception of the N64 games, Perfect Dark, and Goldeneye )

Here's another lil fun screwup on my end haha. I was junking some old computer parts from circa 1997 and when I came back home, I'd realized that I accidentally threw away the side to my current computer case that was taken off earlier when I was dusting it out! Ach, so I went online and purchased this one:



Then I checked the requirements for power supplies for my GeForce 8800 GTS, and realized it needed a special PCI Express power cable, so damnit I had to buy a new power supply too, on a recommendation:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817189014

So now I'm probably going to have all the parts I need by Wednesday or so...

I seriously recommend ATi, since NVIDIA usually just makes renderers but no co-processor to take the load off your CPU.

xboxrulz

First what is your OS? And do you want a gamer PC or you want to process large video files?

Everything depends on your budget. I would suggest AMD/Athlon because the productivity/price ratio cannot be beaten by Intel.