budget build

[*NastySlowhand*]

hiyas I'm doing a Lil budget build for my son and was hoping to get some opinions on my hardware choices,I got a PNY GS250/1gig pcie video card and wanted a duel core processor so I'm thinking about this combo www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131395 / www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091 / www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227244 I checked the CPU and memory support list by the mobo (Asus) site.do you think this would make a decent gaming PC for a 11 year old it comes to less than 400$ plus a case and PS.

[*NastyJeff*]

Yes, it should.
OCZ ram is the best, but I am curious.... why Intel and not AMD? AMD is a better gaming platform....
Can you tell that I am an AMD lover?

[*NastySlowhand*]

I also like amd my current machine has the brains of amd but this time its Pentium just because I like the pretty blue box also would you think withe 4 gigs of ram i should go 64 bit os or stay with ol 32 bit xp pro? whoa ,i just thought will quake and other apps even work with a 64bit os? hmm need to research this whole idea i guess

[*NastySlowhand*]

well just to keep you posted, I ended up using XP Pro {32bit} and changed my hardware config a bit.I used a Gigabyte EP45T-UD3LR motherboard/Pentium E6300 Dual core processor/Kingston Hyperx KHX1333C7D3/4G {4gig}/and PNY GTS 250 {1024MB}and although the os reports only 3.25 gigs of ram, {You can read why here www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm }its running flawlessly so far and all my games on maxed out graphics settings,including Q3 Arena,UT3.Doom,Quake4,Painkiller and a demo of Batman: Arkham Asylum