i would suggest...
intel C2Q Q9300-11.8k
Asus P5Q pro - 8.8k(personally i feel its better than other two options given)
RAM-as u mentioned
GPU-Palit HD4850 -9.7k
HDD-Western Digital 640 GB (better than seagate 500GB cos costs same and performance is same for both,while u get 140 GB more)-3.6k
SMPS- Corsair VX450W (better than CM600W )-3.2k
cabby-thermaltake strikeMX -4.1k(look for more inputs here,m not a cabby person
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Monitor- dell 198wpf -9.7k
DVD writer- Asus 2014L1T DVD-RW -1.3k.
personally i think u can buy an average cabby like zebronics bijli and go for a 22" monitor from it will be more than worth.
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1. I will be using this GPU both for rendering and gaming(Crysis, RTS games etc.)
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HD4850 will play crysis quite better than any of the gfx card in ur price range and @19" all other current games u can play with all settings high and all eye candy on!!
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2. The HDD must have 32MB buffer and minimum of 500GB (Theres a huge perfomence difference b\w 16MB and 32MB rite?)
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its right but western digital 640 GB gives
almost the same performace as a 32MB buffer drive ...it cost 3.6k now same as a seagate 500gb but u get 140 GB more !!so its VFM
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3. Cabby must be very well ventilated because I will be leaving the computer on for days at a time.
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not my department but u get really good cabby these days...good and ventilated.... other people can guide u better!
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4. One more thing which is nagging me is whether this config will be obsolete when Nehalem comes out, will there be a HUGE perfomence difference b\w this system and a Nehalem system with around the same budget?
Will the perfomence difference be like a jump from Pentium 4 to Conroe(Core 2 Duo)?
If yes I'd rather not go for this config now and wait for Nehalem.
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Nehalem really gives huge performance boosts over current qua cores ,u might like to read this
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/int...core,5854.html
Nehalem is still faster than the fastest Penom 9950 BE by 28 percent.
but its mid september there is no news of nehlam ..while it was rumored to be launched by now! moreover it will costlier than current highest quadcore! and will have a mobo based on X58 chipset ..obviously will be much costly ...and this chipset will only support DDR3 ...already very costly right now ! ..so u can guess how much ur price will go up with all this....so i think even if its launched today it will take 9 months to a year to come in mainstream!
if u can wait that long its fine ...else if u are in hurry ..go for some VFM system(perhaps a E7200+MSI P45neo..total of about 11k) now and upgrade fully after a year or so ....that will be wise option