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03-07-2008, 04:10 AM
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my friend and i are building a com... 2000 dollar budget
yes its a lot of money!! 2000 is the max too. i need monitor, keyboard, mouse, everything!
this is what i have in mind: mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128059 RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231098 (times two=4GB) CPU: Q6600 and it will be overclocked CPU fan: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118019 with artic silver 5 thermal grease. GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130072 Case: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...IN#detailspecs ultra full tower, its on tiger direct. well buy two 120mm green fans too. PSU: it comes with the case. its a 700W Monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824001096 keyboard, mouse and a wireless PCI adapter are also included. the hard drives are 500GB sata samsungs... should i get Western Digital? Should i go SLI instead??? and of coarse windows vista 64bit for the DX10 CD drive is an asus with lightscribe. PS well want to play high performance games
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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 Last edited by mortonman1; 03-07-2008 at 04:13 AM. |
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03-07-2008, 04:17 AM
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$2000?!?
QX9650 X38 4GB DDR2-800 500GB SATAII Antec 900 SATA DVD Burner OCZ GameXStream 700W 8800GTS G92 512MB Now THAT's a rig 
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03-07-2008, 04:22 AM
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thats 600 dollars over the price limit
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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 |
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03-07-2008, 05:46 AM
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I agree with oscaryu1 on most of the components...but here's what I'd change
Q9450 (not out yet, wait MAYBE 1 month) 8800GT (if you want to run SLI, get the 780i mobos, if you don't plan on running SLI, get X38 mobo) Just my opinion(s)
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03-07-2008, 06:36 AM
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CPU $254.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115017 MOBO $269.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128326 Ram $59.99 get 2 of these x2 = $119.98 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146725 Case $149.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811133154 PSU $179.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341008 Video card $419.42 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16814121228R CPU cooler $57.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118020 HDD (1) $44.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136225 HDD (2) $94.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136178 that is a total of $1592.33 that leave u $400 for everything else.
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03-07-2008, 10:18 AM
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But he need monitor, keyboard, mouse... May be down the QX9650 to Q9450/E8400 |
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03-08-2008, 04:14 AM
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QX9650 - $1000 X38 $200 4GB DDR2-800 $56 500GB SATAII $80 Antec 900 $75 SATA DVD Burner $35 OCZ GameXStream 700W $100 8800GTS G92 512MB $250... It might be over the budget cause you don't know the "cheap" parts...
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03-08-2008, 05:42 AM
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alright i decided on SLI... sorry for the hassle i caused. two 8800GTs is what im thinking
any suggestions?
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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 |
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03-08-2008, 06:04 AM
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of hears a build with 2 8800GT 512M
just take the 3870x2 out of my build an put 2 of these in http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125088 an get this MOBO http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131247
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