80k and no good sound card and decent speakers. Strange!!
Anything above 50k for mobo-processor-rams-graphic card combo above 50k is pretty much wasted. Spending so much money on an LGA775 is pretty much wasted- its more wise to wait for 2 months. You got to have a screen atleast 1650x 1050 resolution- or else buying a high end graphic card like 4870 ati is wasted. Anything on the same and below resolution- ati 4850 is adequate. And spending so much on the motherboard is wasted. People barely with fiddle around with voltages and barely overclock- let alone dram- fsb ratio, northbridge, southbridge overclock and other tweaks, the money spend on the motherboard is flushed down the toilet. Same goes gore for the processor. As for the rams, good set of rams like g skills pi black can go bit more than 1000mhz on 5-4-4-12 @ 2t on 2.0v- even on a cheap gigabyte g31. Spending so much on a ddr3 1333mhz rams is wasted. A person with 80k and above budget can easily get a good rig for 50k. If the buyer doesnt want to wait for nehalem to be feasible (I will recommend- games arent running anywhere) Investing on a cheap mobo like gigabyte g31 and e7200 or e8400 with good set of rams, corsair vx450, 4870 IGB ddr5 (or 4850 if he has lesser screen resolution), asus xonar dx and audioengine ae2 speakers is a wiser choice. the vx450 gives meaty 33 amps- so it is a great buy.
