im tring to prep one of my friends for buying a computer
price range $1000-$1500

he gets on average 5 frame rates per second when he is on world of warcraft
and he wants close to what i have or better so he can play Darkfall Online without any problems. I already looked up what i have on newegg.com i couldn't find my exact asus graphics card though on that site so i found one similar

heres what i found compare and discuss please

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
$136.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX -
$150.00

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT333 - Retail
$98.99

BFG Tech BFGR78256GTOC Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
$299.99

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$82.99

ASUS 16X DVD±R DVD Burner W/ 5X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model DRW1608P2SBLACK RTL - Retail
$42.99

XION XION II XON-103 Black SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply - Retail
$64.99

Wise Wing W702B Black 17" 8ms LCD Monitor - Retail
$143.99

LITE-ON SK-1788/BS 2-Tone PS/2 Wired Standard Keyboard - Retail
$4.95

Rosewill RM800U Black 3 Buttons 1x Wheel USB Optical Mouse - OEM
$4.99

inland 88017 Silver 3.5mm Connector TableTop Microphone - Retail
$2.99

Creative SBS240 3 Watts RMS 2.0 Speaker - OEM
$11.00


TOTAL 1044.86


darkfall
minus printer and extra disc drive, memory heat sinks, fans and kick [nocando] lights don't forget colored ide cables with lights and colored wire mesh

also what is your opinion on "phase change cooling", vapor compression
this is important to me

This is SpArTa!! oh im sorry, I must have took a wrong turn..somewhere...(runs away)