Well, first and foremost you have to ask your self, "What am I going to use this PC for?"
Gaming? Leisure? Advanced computing (CAD, 3d software, development etc)?
My Current build is as follows:'
Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz (stock)
OCZ Gold DC 2 GB DDR2-800
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L rev.2
1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Buffer Segate HDD
500w OCZ Powersupply (it might be 550 I don't remember"
9500GT (I had a 8800 GTS 640mb but I gave it back because I stopped gaming).
Oh and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
You will almost never during gaming or leisure use 4 cores, I bought mine because it was cheap during the time, 170 during black friday a few years back. 2 gigs of ram sufficed for me and I don't really get any system slow downs.
All in all you don't have to go bannana's on your build.
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