you can just ship it to me. Ill test it out for a year or two. then ill send it to you when its old technology. hows that sound?

****e. Okay, looks like I'm gonna go over this again, this time using TigerDirect. Here are the parts again.

Barebones PC
Asus P5N-E SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 Barebone Kit / Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 OEM / 1GB DDR2 PC4200 / ATX Mid-Tower Case / 600 Watt Power Supply

RAM
Ultra 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz Memory

Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS / 640MB GDDR3 / SLI Ready / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / HDCP Enabled / Video Card

Sound Card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE

DVD Burner
Pioneer DVR-111DBK / 16x DVD±R Burn & Read / 8x DVD+RW / 6x DVD-RW / 8x DVD+R DL / 40x32x CD-R/RW / Black / OEM DVD Burner with Software

Hard Disk Drive
Seagate / Barracuda / 500GB / 7200 / 8MB / SATA-300 / Hard Drive

Grand Total = $1081.94 w\o the rebates of course. That plus shipping should be roughly around $1050. I researched every item in the barebones PC and all the components seem to be of good quality. And this PC can be upgraded too, as can the Newegg one. Feel free to remove the sound card if it's affecting your budget. Otherwise, you'll have a superb PC of almost the same build quality as the Newegg one. Good luck and I hope you find what you're looking for!

This is a much better machine than in previous posts. I don't like Ultra memory, but I don't see a lot of complaints about it online.
First class hard drive with five year warranty
First class optical drive
Solid, and appropriate, power supply
Solid sound card if your speakers are decent
Don't know of any issues with the motherboard
Price is fair
The case will be a bit tinny, knowing Tiger Direct.
We have been buying from Tiger direct for about 15 years with nary a problem.
Watch out for rebate issues... if they offer a rebate, take care of that first thing... before it even ships, make sure you have the rebate forms and they are accurate.

wow that sounds like a great deal actually. i wish i had a g to blow on a new computer. being a college student is tough though.

I have seen on some sites (dell, alienware) there are other physics cards or other graphic enhancers. Would it be worth it to get any of those? If so can you recommend any?

dooh : P
it was like almost a year ago and i can play BF2142 till my heart content =]
got bored.. now playing other high end PC games like Lost Planet Extreme Condition on the PC. I'll be making a small movie soon.

PS. what upgrade would you recommend for me Rage, i'm thinking of upgrading soon (like 1 year from now ) I'm thinking about getting a cross fire for my x1900xt 512, a faster HD for installing games perferrably 1k rpm, already brought other 1 gigz of ram but didn't install it yet for Vista. I never try duo core, maybe i need a nice CPU and a motherboard thats compatible with my vc and memory =]

ps. u r da best Rage (crazy fan cheers*)

ps.2 oops! i realized that quote was toward the OP.. lol silly me ^_^

@Condor LOL I didn't know I had a fan in here. But all the same, thanks for the kind words mate, much appreciated.
As for your needs, I'd rather you keep your current video card, or if you can afford it, get an 8800GTS. SLI/Crossfire involves a lot of expenditure towards cooling and power, so unless you can afford it, better avoid it altogether. Also, how much is your total budget? I can recommend a couple of parts for you if I have a budget in hand.
@raybay, the previous PC from Newegg was a tad better since it had an E6320 and faster, more high-quality RAM. But this one will do fine too I think.
@ the OP, I think you'll like your new PC. It's blazing fast and will handle anything you throw at it.