Thread: Help with my Future PC not sure what MoBo to get.?

I'm building a new Computer. I made a wish list on New egg.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?Source=MSWD&WishListNumber=4 985949
What do you think of it?
What Motherboard would bring the best out of all that and be capable of future updates such as a Quad core and DDR3 RAM and eventually a new Video card. it's meant to be a Gaming PC.
I'd love to hear your opinion and what you would do differently and why.

-Thank you!

-Tim

You're paying too much for the CPU and video card, look at AMD and ATI for comparable parts for cheaper. Also, you're missing a hard drive on that list. And if you're looking at making this a high end gaming PC, you're going to want vista ultimate, M$ has no plans of making XP run directx10. Despite what you hear, vista runs great on a good computer that can actually handle it. I'll include some parts I bought which run crysis at full settings in the sources. As far as the motherboard, I'd go with the MSI K9A2 Platinum. I know it only supports DDR2, but DDR3 is just excessive and it won't even give a noticeable performance boost for another couple years.

You're paying too much for the CPU and video card, look at AMD and ATI for comparable parts for cheaper. Also, you're missing a hard drive on that list. And if you're looking at making this a high end gaming PC, you're going to want vista ultimate, M$ has no plans of making XP run directx10. Despite what you hear, vista runs great on a good computer that can actually handle it. I'll include some parts I bought which run crysis at full settings in the sources. As far as the motherboard, I'd go with the MSI K9A2 Platinum. I know it only supports DDR2, but DDR3 is just excessive and it won't even give a noticeable performance boost for another couple years.