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Approximate Purchase Date: Before the end of Summer, around August.

Budget Range: 400-450 before rebates.

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming and that's all.

Parts Not Required: Hard drive, DVD drive, OS, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg please

Country: USA

Parts Preferences: AMD because of price/performance for CPU and GPU. ASUS or Gigabyte for motherboard. Antec 300 for the case.

Overclocking: Maybe a little but not necessary

SLI or Crossfire: No

Monitor Resolution: 1280x1024

Notes: Games I mostly play are Source games maybe try for some Diablo 3

prices will be different in august.

Well the prices might go down in august which is definite advantage and go for a ATI Radeon graphics accelerator because AMD and ATI works together well.

I haven't played Diablo 3 in a long time (since I got a refund), but when I did it ran like crap even on the lowest settings. The spell effects were massive resource hogs. I don't know if it's been updated to run better since then.

Just make sure you don't under-budget your system too much or you might have performance issues. I'm not sure if Diablo 3 is more CPU intensive or GPU intensive.

The prices of what might go down in August? Radeon GPUs?

Necrobump. Let it die.