Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List Oct/Nov 08
High-end - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770
Mid-range - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Honorable mention - AMD Phenom X4 9950
High-end - LGA775 - ASUS P5N64 WS PRO WiFi NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI
High-end - AM2/AM2+ - ASUS Crosshair II Formula AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI
Mid-range - LGA775 - ASUS P5QL-E
Mid-range - AM2 - Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
High-end - XFX GeForce GTX 280 1GB 512-bit GDDR3
Mid-range - Radeon HD 4850
Budget - Radeon HD 3850/GeForce 9600
High-end - Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB
Mid-range - Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB
High-end - CORSAIR DOMINATOR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17066)
Mid-range - Corsair XMS2 DHX 4GB Dual Channel PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 2GB)
Sound card - Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Speakers - Logitech Z-5500
Water cooling - Cooler Master RL-EUL-GBU1-GP Aquagate S1
LGA775 cooler - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
AM2 cooler - Scythe Infinity
High-end - Enermax Galaxy EGX1000EWL
Mid-range - ThermalTake PurePower W0100RU 500-Watt
High-end - Cooler Master RC-1100 Cosmos S ATX Full-Tower Case
22" - Samsung T220
30" - Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP