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I would like to buy a new computer with the $2000 (Canadian) I’ll have saved.
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Are you in the vincinty of TO in Novemeber (most notably the last week or two)? You can save a lot of money if you can make it (computer show)
Power Supply upgrade (400W, or higher?)
Good call on the quantity, you'll also want to make sure its not some no-name PSU
120GB Hard Drive (do these come in 10,000 RPM?)
They certainly do
New Motherboard (I need a lot of help!)
Something like this would be great:
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.htm although it'll be a pretty penny; if thats a bit much, grab something like this:
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.htm
Needs to support P4 2.8 - 3.4 GHz Processor (Will price change drastically between
Since you're dealing with DDR2, that will mean Prescott and the thing about the P4E is that, without insane clocks it'll have a difficult overcoming the super-insanely-long 31stage pipeline (as compared to the already insanely long 20stage on the P4C) ... so I wouldnt reccomend anything short of 3.2Ghz and more likely 3.4Ghz) ... the price WILL however be quite noteably higher as you increase the clock.
a 1MB and 2MB cache? Lol…I have no idea what I’m talking about!)
You wont have to worry about this as its included in the CPU
Needs to support DDR2 RAM ~500-600 MHz
Again you wont have to worry about this as its a condition of the mobo. The mobo I suggested supports DDR2-600
RAID (I’m extremely confused on what this is exactly, yet I heard it’s “essential” for gaming PC’s)
Certainly not a requirement by any means for gaming ... even if you get RAID0 (which technically isnt "RAID" because it violates the requirement for "R") ... RAID0 will give typically 10-15% performance bonus ... a far cry from the theoretical 100% improvement. Even with a pair of Raptor 36.7GB drives in RAID0 (theoretically the best non-SCSI RAID0 available), you'll notice a game loadtime improvement of a.... whopping 3-10 seconds..... whoopee.
Odds are you wont have to worry about this however as it's more typically a condition of the mobo
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And anything else you would recommend to increase performance.
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A good fan.
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PS – Yes it’s okay if you assume I’m a little retarded…I just need a lot of help! Oh yeah I guess you can assume the prices may drop in 4 months when I’ll actually buying this stuff
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The prices wont drop by THAT much. Even if you do goto the computer show, you'll be hard pressed to squeeze all this into 2K CAD. Doable, but a challenge.