My PC Rig

[Josh Parr]

I'm fairly new to PC gaming. Honestly I have always avoided it because I have always preferred using a controller on games and have also never had the money to keep up with the changing gaming hardware requirements.  Consoles make that easier, however I finally built myself a machine and I'm curious as to if the other PC Gamers can tell me what else I should add and if I did any good with my current build.

Antec 300 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower
120MM Case Fan (Qty 4)
140MM Case Fan
Antec 650W ATX12V
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
AMD Athlon 64X2 5000 2.6ghz 65W Dual Core Processor
G.Skill 8GB(4x2GB) DDR2 800 Memory
EVGA GTX 260 896MB PCI Express X16 2.0
LG Black 22X SATA DVD Burner
360 Wireless Receiver Receiver
Gear Head Wireless Desktop
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Silicon Image 3132 SATA II Controller Card
Western Digital 320GB SATA II Drive
Western Digital 400GB SATA II Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1GB SATA II Drive (Qty 2)
Seagate Barracuda 1.5GB SATA II Drive
Nippon Labs 0.5M Right Angle SATA II Cable (Qty 4) (I had to get these because of the design of the board the video card covers 3 of the SATA ports but 4 of them curve the same way and these fixed that issue no problems)
 
My windows experience Index Rating is a 5.4. Everything hits 5.9 on Vista except the processor. My main goal is to replace the processor with a Quad-Core in the near future and also a 1000W Modular Power Supply. At some point I will probably replace the board because I want to do SLI but I can't currently because there is only one PCI-Express X16 2.0 slot. Kinda sucks.

[G.A.Pster]

You can still play all PC games with a gamepad you just need a keyboard emulator.
That’s what I do. keyboards are for data entry not game playing.

As far as what parts to put in your PC, I wouldn’t know.
I generally just buy one video card per OS generation. And I’m a generation behind right now. I play what games I can and then wait until my next more powerful PC to play the ones I can’t.