Glanced through the earlier posts. But i was not able to follow it. Sorry if i'm starting right from scratch. And sorry, if i'm unable to make you clear, I didn't double check the grammar and sentence formation.
@Rahul - You gonna use this PC only for gaming purpose? If so, what kind of gaming? Graphics hungry Crysis or rest of the games? The games except crysis can be sufficed with a 9600GT for fullHD resolution.
If not for gaming, will you be using it for watching movies (long period of time) and music (long period)?
If the PC that you gonna use will be used for movies and music. Please concentrate more on spending in monitors and speakers. At the end of the day, those parts thats are visible also matters.
A fullHD monitor 24" BenQ G2412HD + Creative T6100 - 15K, will get you a good multimedia system.
If you are going to buy the video card 3-4 months later, do not go for anything less than GTS250 512. Don't buy 1Gb of any card. Check tomshardware for the diff b/w 512 and 1gb. It won't be worth the money, instead you can opt for a different chipset and you'll find noticeable difference. And buy any brand that is cheap. Palit, Point of view, galaxy are also good brands. But if XFX is cheap, then you can buy that too.
And now for processor. I guess you have finalized it to 955BE. It's a good pick. You can even opt for 965BE, if you have budget.
And for motherboard. Buy the cheapest possible motherboard - don't care about brands. ECS, BIOSTAR, ASROCK are also good brands. You wouldn't find a difference in buying these boards. and you wouldn't get a problem too. (Of course, there is a chance of getting some problems, but that will be present all the asus and gigabyte boards too)
ASUS and GIGABYTE are costly. If in your area, all are of equal price then go for ASUS and Gigabyte, cause they give you sturdy feel and lots of online friends.
RAM - don't go for DDR3 if there is a price difference of around 800 INR or 500 INR (and if u need that 500 or 800 INR) Cause if you choose DDR3, the price of the motherboard should also be taken into consideration. Of course, there are some cheap ddr3 motherboards that suport am3 (like for 3K) but they are lower chipset like nvidia 6150 etc. The same chipset(780 or 785) will have a difference in ddr2 and ddr3 board.
So rounding off everything, if you buy anybrand ddr2 motherboard you can save the money for rest of the components. As a ddr3+costly brand won't have a vast performance difference for that price.
Example: DDR3+ASUS+7XX chipset = 5k and DDR2+BIOSTAR+same 7XX chipset= 3.5K (no huge difference in performance) but that 1.5 when spent on a video card or processor will fetch you a nice performance difference which will be definitely be better than the difference between ASUS+DDR and BS+DDR2.
Am I making any sense here?
And one more thing, from what i've seen so far with a D930 cpu and DDR2667 RAM and Win7 32- there definitely won't be a need for RAM more than 2GB. Till now I haven't used 100% of my RAM. and I'm wondering is it any kind of bug in my PC or config.
Let's take this scenario:
System 1:
AMD 965BE + Biostar A785GE + ZION 2 GB DDR2 800
System 2:
AMD X4 630BE + ASUS M4A78STD-V-EVO + Corsair 2 GB DDR3> ?
The price of system 1 - 8850+3535+2250 = 14635
The price of system 2 - 4900+6883+3150 = 14933
Source: Lynx-india.com
Both are same price. But my guess is that System 1 will outperform system 2.
.... but then could you give me a config with Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz B.E. and Sapphire HD5670 512MB GDDR5.... preferably under 35k-40k....
