Talk Is Cheap

I would like any suggestions to save money and maintain/increase performance. My main goal is to run WoW better.

Harddrive 60@ I don’t need much space. I want reliablility, quiet speed and a great price.

Monitor 160$ (Monitor went down to 150$ today so I went ahead and bought it)

Video Card 135$ How many pipelines miniumum? They all seem to have good memory on them, what else do I need to look for? The specs listed on newegg say

 My power supply seems to only have 1 6 pin and it is express or something. Maybe I misunderstand and the video card both plug into the motherboard?

I found this EVGA 512-P3-N973-TR GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 The other one seemed to be more then I needed. This one only requireds the 1 6 pin power connections that my power supply has. I am open to suggestions though. 

CPU 168$ Duel core is all I need (wow doesn’t use more then that) the 45m (or whatever) is important for heat and energy use, is 3.0 speed the best for this price or is there a lesser one for a better price that performs simularly?

Motherboard 97$ The above CPU says it can use DDR3, should I seped the extra to get a board that uses DDR3?

Memory 45$ This is 4g of DDR2, would be around 90$ to move into DDR3

OS 99$ Vista blah… can’t imagine the ultimate version to be usefull to me.

Combo case/PS 79$ is 550w enough? Mid-tower is going to be big enough for the video card?

I tried to do some research but I would just get overwhelmed. Most of it has free shipping. Total is 866$.

I don’t know if I need 4k ram but 45$ seemed good. I’ll be supprised if I picked the right motherboard and CPU and I just get overwhelmed on the video cards. Thanks for any help.

-Kevin

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