xmas list 2010 so far

number of

DC Universe for PC or ps3 please#?

Pokemon soul silver #?

black and white one for mac. # 5

the Nerf - N-Strike Barrel Break IX-2 #3

note: this is only available at Toys r Us

Assassin's Creed II note: I only want the ps3 version #2 1/2

star wars force unleashed 2 #1

Call of Duty: Black Ops note: I want it for PS3 # 2

Halo Reach #4

Gift Cards #6

stamped nerf gun #3 and a half

mafia wars/vampier wars reward points note: these are face book games #?

pacific fight or wings of pray #2 and a half

battle field bad company 2 note: for pc or ps3

fall out new Vegas #?

city of rogues time card for game #a high number

xmas list

lego

hot wheel track the one with a big jump

scribblenauts its a game for ds
mega blocks halo sets the one called Aerial ambush set is the one i think is coolest but you don't have to buy that one

any type of video games as long as not my little pony or sum-thing like that its way to girly

newts they are a type of pet you can find them at any pet store there in the aquatic or reptile centre in the pet store

warhammer 40k the video game any one of the collection / really time strategy is the tipe of video game

cost

The whole thing costs about $1535-2190 USD

Memory Card

There are two memory cards we looked at - Kingston & Crucial. We have a max of 16 gb of memory over 4 slots. The max we could find was 2 gb / slot (for a max of 8 gb of memory).

Both Crucial & Kingston were well reviewed and both run about $200 - $250 for the 8 gb of ram.

wifi

We found out that all of the wifi have basically the same stats and price, so we decided that any one of them would be good.  Cost $15-30

motherboard

We looked online and we found out that the Gigabyte and the ASUS were the most highly recommended.

our first option is the gigabyte (GA-EP45-UD3P):

It is a socket 775, which supports our processor, 4 memory slots totaling 16 gig max, 2 pci-express slots and a total of 5 additional pci slots, the motherboard supports SATA and integrated LAN and has 12 usb ports.

Cost $150

our second option is the ASUS (Maximus II):

It is a socket 775, 4 memory slots max 16 GB, 2 pci-express and a total of 5 additional pci slots, the motherboard supports SATA and integrated LAN and a total of 12 USB ports.

Cost $250

my preference is the Gigabyte motherboard, I like the name better.

disc drive

We looked at the CD Drive, DVD Drive and the Blu-Ray Drive.  We also looked at whether we needed something to just read the information or if we wanted something to write information as well.

We decided we didn't need a blu-ray as we weren't going to play that many blu-ray videos on this system.  We decided we didn't need a CD drive, we did want to watch some movies and be able to burn my movies to a DVD.

Then we went to Best Buy online and we checked out what kind of DVD drives they had.  Then we found two drives and compared them.  One of them is listed below and the other we didn't choose because it's an EIDE drive and not a SATA drive.  We need SATA as that is the format we selected for the rest of the computer.

This is our choice:

LG 22x internal SATA dvd rewriter (model: GH22LS40) for $50 CDN

It was the best one we could find :)

Hard Drive

We are choosing the SATA hard drive. 

(1) because it's got better bandwidth, 

(2) better speed (150MB/ sec v.  133MB/sec), 

(3) better power configuration

We chose this one:

Seagate 1.5tb (terabyte) barracuda 7200.11 RPM SATA II w/32MB cache

Cost: $170