give us your budget

actually, phenom 9950 (fastest in amd) cant even win q6600 (slowest quadcore in intel)
q6600 is slightly better than 9950, besides, q6600 can be oced to 3ghz, sure will pwn more deep..

intel is a better choice for now
but if you want to get amd's quadcore, try wait for phenomII, soon will come out but heard that it will come out with ddr3 based mobo, duno true or not =s read read only.. hope some1 can cfm this..

Any AGP cards can be used.... Depends on how much you are going to spend. 

Phenom is not recommended for 24/7 operations... your electricity bill will sky-rocket.

For large displays, graphics card with 256-bit wide memory bus is recommended... For example NVIDIA 9600GT or ATi HD3870 at least..

This motherboard can support SLI.. Unfortunately, in your topic you were originally asking about the M790GP-DS4H model, so confusion arises..

Unfortunately yes, Intel is the better choice especially when it comes to gaming and many other stuff as well. That's because majority number of programs are not quad core optimized, or are just single/dual threaded.. thus a faster dual core would be much more faster for the job. Phenom also has erratic performance due to CnQ sensitivity issues.. Also with Phenom, it is recommended to use (expensive) DDR2-1066 RAM if possible to get full performance.

OEM processors normally do not come with stock heatsink (and shorter warranty period), thus its much cheaper.

1440x900. that is the native resolution for 19 inc widescreen monitor.

You can try...

GigaByte EP31-DS3L mainboard = 260
CoolerMaster Extreme Power Plus 500W PSU (450W real power) = 184

Total: RM444

Just note that the GigaByte EP31-DS3L motherboard maximum memory capacity is 4GB... Its only useful if you are going to use 2GB (2 x 1GB) and later add another 2GB (2 x 1GB) for a total of 4GB.. However, if you are going to use 4GB (2 x 2GB) now then the remaining slots are useless.. 

If you are looking for more than 4GB, then look for P35 chipset motherboards (costs around less than RM300 nowadays) which supports 8GB memory. Anyway, can you tell us which Intel quad core you are going to use? 

Those are usually for dual channel matching slots, same color DIMM slots = same channel pair = for a pair of matching RAM sticks... 

Depends on your usage... I'm using 2GB and hardly fully utilize the RAM when browsing, downloading, playing multimedia (video and audio) and running other desktop stuff at the same time. The only time 2GB will be utilized are usually games, as newer ones use quite a lot of memory. 4GB would be considered very adequate for a long time.. 

IMHO.. 2 x 2GB would be faster. 

Word... Clean your heatsink.. its probably clogged at top (under the fan).. You only buy a better heatsink if you want to overclock, or your room environment is hot (not much air movement). 

Around RM100 to RM200. 

Around 29C to 49C on average or idle, on load can reach up to 75C depending on processor. 

ASUS makes good quality motherboards and ASUS P5N-SLI is one of them.

Core2Quad ? Are you multi-tasking?

Core2Extreme ? Geez .. too expensive !

HD4830 ? yeah .. budget graphic card ~

800 is slightly faster than 667.

get the OEM from AllnGao
RM6xx