Need help with gaming rig for Cataclysm

[selk22]

Hello, Im looking to pick up a new gaming rig! Im going for the biggest bang for my buck, id like something that can run Cataclysm on Ultra. Im also well capable of building it myself, Im just behind on technology now and need some help picking the parts to buy! Id really appreciate the help!

This is what iv put together.

Newegg.com - Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, option Fans-2x Side 120mm Fan

Newegg.com - ASRock 870 EXTREME3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100315L Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity

Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X3 740 Black Edition Heka 3.0GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Desktop Processor HDZ740WFK3DGI - Processors - Desktops

Newegg.com - WINTEC AMPX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 3AXH1333C9WS4GK

Newegg.com - LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA CD/DVD Burner - Bulk - CD / DVD Burners

Newegg.com - SeaSonic S12II 520 Bronze 520W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS 12V V2.91 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Newegg.com - ZALMAN CNPS10X Performa 120mm Long life CPU Cooler

[7itanium]

The only thing I would change is the processor

Phenoms are great... but for gaming I like to run either a dual core or a quad core-- windows sucks and distributing between an odd number of cores.. and WoW is even worse at it

[selk22]

That processor actually has an option in the Bios to unlock the 4th core pretty easy, do you think that would keep it stable?

[Tgump]

Jeez dude to play WoW you can easily tone down some of that stuff.

I have a HD 4850, AMD 2.7GHz x3, 2GB DDR3, and a 450w PSU on Win7 ult64bit and I run WoW completely maxed at 1280x1024 with hundreds of fps.

[Phreeq]

CPU: AMD Phenom II x3 (2806 MHz)
Memory: 4GB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!

Total Cost: $315

I scream on Ultra in HD with 200+ fps.

Moral of the story, Newegg is over rated, shop Microcenter.com