helping a friend build a computer

Instinct5 · 03-01-2008, 05:11 AM

Hey, My friend asked me to help him build a computer but im not the best at it so im going to cheat and ask you guys to give me some pointers and help me pick parts. He wants to make it a gaming/media computer he likes movies but he also wants to play up to date games. He wants to stay intel (i dont blame him). So if anyone can maybe help me get started that would be great. I'll have a rig put together by tonight and you can pick it apart all you want.

Instinct5 · 03-01-2008, 05:29 AM

http://www.directcanada.com/cart/

oscaryu1 · 03-01-2008, 01:34 PM

Budget?

Instinct5 · 03-01-2008, 05:19 PM

1200 with monitor and OS included in price

mortonman1 · 03-01-2008, 09:18 PM

P35 gigabyte

8800GTS G92

core 2 duo 3.0ghz/E8400

antec 900

zalman 9700 with artic silver 5 thermal compound

samsung 19in. not sure which one to get

4GB DDR2 800 G.Skill memory

20x lite on with lightscribe

500W PSU maybe 600W. you decide which one

500GB hard drive

PunterCam · 03-01-2008, 10:07 PM

^^ nice ^^

Dunno about the samsung screen, it might be better than other brands but just buy a cheap one. Once you adapt to a screen you're completely unaware of any quality deficiancy.

I'd recommend he checks prebuilt computers first, might pay marginally more, but I've had so many problems that are completely unfathomable and seemingly unsolvable. A year on and I still couldn't get my brothers computer to work properly; it would be stunning for hours, then lock up for 5 minutes for no reason, then be fine, then a bit slower, then programs would become corrupted etc... Reinstalled windows numerous times, all the drivers were spot on, go figure.

Take the risk if you want, but when you've been trusted with $1200 of someones hard earned cash it feels really really awful when you can't get it working properly

Instinct5 · 03-01-2008, 10:51 PM

where are u getting this from i tried that and it was like 1300 just to much. newegg wont work because it doesnt ship to canada.

hpi · 03-01-2008, 11:05 PM

Puntercam building your own pc is cheaper for better hardware and software and if you do everything right you should have absolutely no problems at all.

If a friend asked me to spend 1200$ on his pc id build one right away and not buy prebuilt. Ever.

Instinct5 · 03-02-2008, 01:29 AM

http://www.directcanada.com/cart/

thats the latest build that i came up with. Tell me if something isnt compatible or is weak or can be upgraded without adding alot of cost to it. thanks. and tell me if the link works haha

djcon · 03-02-2008, 01:58 AM

Nothing comes up in the cart...

03-01-2008, 05:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
Instinct5 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 292	helping a friend build a computer Hey, My friend asked me to help him build a computer but im not the best at it so im going to cheat and ask you guys to give me some pointers and help me pick parts. He wants to make it a gaming/media computer he likes movies but he also wants to play up to date games. He wants to stay intel (i dont blame him). So if anyone can maybe help me get started that would be great. I'll have a rig put together by tonight and you can pick it apart all you want. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon x2 dual core @ stock2.7 GHz RAM:2x 1GB OCZ 800mhz GPU: PNY Nvidia GeForce 8800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA HD DVD: 20x DvD-Rom OS: Windows Vista Home Premium OS Case: Apevia X-Cruiser w/450w PS

03-01-2008, 05:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
Instinct5 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 292	http://www.directcanada.com/cart/ __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon x2 dual core @ stock2.7 GHz RAM:2x 1GB OCZ 800mhz GPU: PNY Nvidia GeForce 8800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA HD DVD: 20x DvD-Rom OS: Windows Vista Home Premium OS Case: Apevia X-Cruiser w/450w PS Last edited by Instinct5; 03-01-2008 at 05:31 AM.

03-01-2008, 01:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 9,856	Budget? __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

03-01-2008, 05:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
Instinct5 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 292	1200 with monitor and OS included in price __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon x2 dual core @ stock2.7 GHz RAM:2x 1GB OCZ 800mhz GPU: PNY Nvidia GeForce 8800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA HD DVD: 20x DvD-Rom OS: Windows Vista Home Premium OS Case: Apevia X-Cruiser w/450w PS

03-01-2008, 09:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
mortonman1 Silver Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cali Posts: 148	P35 gigabyte 8800GTS G92 core 2 duo 3.0ghz/E8400 antec 900 zalman 9700 with artic silver 5 thermal compound samsung 19in. not sure which one to get 4GB DDR2 800 G.Skill memory 20x lite on with lightscribe 500W PSU maybe 600W. you decide which one 500GB hard drive __________________ three can keep a secret, if you get rid of two My Computer: Gigabyte 630i 7100 HDMI series G.Skill 2GB(2 x 1GB) Seagate 250GB 400W PSU Lite-on 20x drive with lightscribe Thermal controller Raidmax Sagitta(stock) E4500 @ 2.2GHz(soon to be OCed!)with liquid nitrogen! lol, i wish

03-01-2008, 10:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
PunterCam Gold Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 423	^^ nice ^^ Dunno about the samsung screen, it might be better than other brands but just buy a cheap one. Once you adapt to a screen you're completely unaware of any quality deficiancy. I'd recommend he checks prebuilt computers first, might pay marginally more, but I've had so many problems that are completely unfathomable and seemingly unsolvable. A year on and I still couldn't get my brothers computer to work properly; it would be stunning for hours, then lock up for 5 minutes for no reason, then be fine, then a bit slower, then programs would become corrupted etc... Reinstalled windows numerous times, all the drivers were spot on, go figure. Take the risk if you want, but when you've been trusted with $1200 of someones hard earned cash it feels really really awful when you can't get it working properly __________________ 2006 Mac Pro Dual, dual core xeons @ 2.0Ghz each 2Gb Ram (I'm too poor) NVidia Geforce 7300Gt 256mb Onboard Sound - optical out to Logitech Z5500 Digidesign MBox2 output to PMCs 250Gb Drive running both Mac OSX and Windows on seperate partitions, 400Gb Seagate Drive for Windows, 400Gb WD Drive for OSX 24¨ Acer AL2416W (not nearly as bad as you'd think) Various Lacie external drives

03-01-2008, 10:51 PM	#7 (permalink)
Instinct5 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 292	where are u getting this from i tried that and it was like 1300 just to much. newegg wont work because it doesnt ship to canada. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon x2 dual core @ stock2.7 GHz RAM:2x 1GB OCZ 800mhz GPU: PNY Nvidia GeForce 8800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA HD DVD: 20x DvD-Rom OS: Windows Vista Home Premium OS Case: Apevia X-Cruiser w/450w PS

03-01-2008, 11:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
hpi Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Montreal, Quebec Age: 15 Posts: 1,476	Puntercam building your own pc is cheaper for better hardware and software and if you do everything right you should have absolutely no problems at all. If a friend asked me to spend 1200$ on his pc id build one right away and not buy prebuilt. Ever. __________________ Intel Pentium D 930 @ 3.0GHz 2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM x1900xtx 512 mb ddr3 Western digital 300gb hdd Ocz GameXStream 700W psu.

03-02-2008, 01:29 AM	#9 (permalink)
Instinct5 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 292	http://www.directcanada.com/cart/ thats the latest build that i came up with. Tell me if something isnt compatible or is weak or can be upgraded without adding alot of cost to it. thanks. and tell me if the link works haha __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A Motherboard CPU: AMD Athlon x2 dual core @ stock2.7 GHz RAM:2x 1GB OCZ 800mhz GPU: PNY Nvidia GeForce 8800GT HDD: Seagate 160GB SATA HD DVD: 20x DvD-Rom OS: Windows Vista Home Premium OS Case: Apevia X-Cruiser w/450w PS

03-02-2008, 01:58 AM	#10 (permalink)
djcon Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada... Eh? Age: 19 Posts: 528	Nothing comes up in the cart... __________________ The Shiggar Fragger. MainPc: \| Laptop: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @2200 MHz \| AMD Turion 64 ML-34 @1800 MHz 2 Gig RAM \| 1 Gig RAM 200 GB HDD \| 120 GB HDD DVD+/-RW \| DVD+/-RW XP Home \| XP Home 17.0" LCD \| 15.4" LCD Pioneer DVD-ROM \| 250 GB Extern HD Asus Amberine MOBO \| Blade K8 U MA MOBO

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