Shuttle XPC SN21G5 (barebone)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester @ 2.21GHz (stock clock; Arctic Silver 5)
EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT KO Superclocked @ 500/1500 (stock clock)
VANTEC SP-FC70-BL Spectrum Blue Fan Card (next to the 7900 GT)
That all together was $711.46 off of NewEgg (as of August 20th, when I ordered). I already had 1GB of RAM (DDR333, overclocked to DDR400 in BIOS), a DVD-RW drive, a (pointless) floppy drive, and a 160GB hard drive. This computer total is valued around 900 bucks, and other than the DirectX10 drivers, already meet the recommended (not minimum, RECOMMENDED) specs for running
Crysis at full speed. You are absolutely wasting good money.
DeusExMachina: Dual-core is fine for gaming. It's fast, and allows you to do other stuff WHILE playing. Games will start taking advantage of dual-core soon enough (I believe it was Serious Sam 2 that already does? I forgot which game, but it was tested with one processor, the FX-55, and a couple video cards, and they all had pretty close results FPS-wise).
1GB of RAM is perfectly fine for me because I play crappy old school games like Counter-Strike 1.6 (I know you do, too, Anti_gilbert, Mr. Nonsteampowered.tk user), but I will be getting 2x1GB of DDR400 RAM from OCZ or Corsair with a tighter timing soon enough (my case only has two RAM slots
).
1TB of space is obviously the most important thing to Anti_gilbert, so let him be. I don't see how he's filled up 2x250GB HDD's, but he did and you all need to remember that when commenting on the size of the hard drive (P.S. what is it that's taking up so much space?!
).
Ehh... ch-yeah... SLI for some 7300 GT's is kind of stupid... especially since I know you game. If you're willing to spend so much already, I suggest you get a 7950GX2, maybe even two of them for quad-GPU for the future...)
I don't know anything about the Intel Xeons, but if they're as good or close to the new Conroe processors from Intel, your computer should fly with some rethinking of the specs you have chosen...