I'd also recommend the Radeon 3870. I got one last winter and haven't had any problems. At 1920 x 1200, I run most new games with medium-high settings and Valve games maxed out.
Scott, are you really suggesting NAS for a computer whose primary purposes are anime and WoW? Gigabytes/dollar, a 1.5TB drive is superior to a 500GB drive and is easier to set up. Plus, it's more than enough space for anime/games/etc., into perpetuity. The ATI cards are better for a mid-range system as it stands, and consume less power than comparable Nvidia cards. As for the 4850, it performs far better than the 3870 (up to 60% gains), and is a much more future-proof card (it'll be running new games on mid-to-high settings in 2-3 years). Rather than the $225 card, I should have recommended the $145 4850, though. Fixed.
As for the quad-core, it's $60 more than a comparable dual core and comes with a $50 game. Why not?
Scott, are you really suggesting NAS for a computer whose primary purposes are anime and WoW? Gigabytes/dollar, a 1.5TB drive is superior to a 500GB drive and is easier to set up.
No, what he was saying that if you need that much space, just build a NAS instead of stuffing a 'normal' PC full with big harddrives.
A NAS is only necessary if you plan on being able to access those files from other computers or you want to do backups. That said, unless you know why you need anything bigger than a 750GB disc, you don't need anything bigger.
The thing about the hard disk, though, is that the computer is under-budget as it is, and the cheapest 750GB drives I could find worth a damn were in the ballpark of $100 (and more realistically $110-130). The cheapest 1TB drives are around $110-120, which is a jump worth it ($10 for approximately an extra 250GB? Done deal.), and the 1.5TB drive was $150, an even better gigabytes/dollar ratio, and still comes in under cost. Anime and gaming are two space-consuming hobbies (I filled up my 500GB drive and 350GB worth of external drives pretty quickly), especially when you're running Steam games and keeping copies of your DVDs on your hard drive.
Bigger hard drives are much less reliable. They also get slow when they fill up. Having your applications on the same gigantic drive as your media collection is a very bad idea, even if they are on separate partitions. If that drive goes down, you're hosed. Having multiple drives in a NAS in some sort of raid is much better and safer. Sure, you could put the same raid inside your one computer, and you might not need the network accessibility that a NAS offers. However, the RAID you get in your PC is much more fickle than the RAID you are going to get in a separate NAS, especially if you get a drobo or something. If a drive fails in a NAS, you're good to go. If a drive fails in a RAID inside your PC, good luck.
If you need a computer to play Wow (at most), use thisthis build.
I don't know how big your HDD needs to be, so you can change that if you want. That build will destroy WoW (50-60 FPS on high) and last a very long time.
Note: You will have to provide your own Disc drive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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As for the quad-core, it's $60 more than a comparable dual core and comes with a $50 game. Why not?
I don't know how big your HDD needs to be, so you can change that if you want. That build will destroy WoW (50-60 FPS on high) and last a very long time.
Note: You will have to provide your own Disc drive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.