Help Please! What should I buy and do?

ComputerSuck · 11-26-2005, 09:12 PM

I am about to buy a cpu, a motherboard, memory, hard drive.... and LCD since Christmas is coming. But I simply don't know what to buy. There are so many CPU, motherboard, hard drive... Anyone here can give me some suggestions please as to what CPU is most worth to buy for its price? I only play game occastionally. I have heard that if a company is about to stop manufacturing a certain model of cpu( sorry I don't know much about computer but I am trying to assemble one on my own), then the price will drop, is it true? if so, what cpu will no longer exist in the near future and is most worthwhile to buy? also what brand of hard drive is good? and do I buy a motherboard first or a cpu first? I don't understand the meaning of these descriptions: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI w/ Dual-Ch DDR400, Dual Gb LAN, SATA 3Gb/s, Dual RAID, 8-Ch Audio, Dual PCI-E

I understand ASUS is the name of a company. I don't understand what A8N-SLI deluxe means. Also, what does Dual-ch ddr400 , dual gblan, sata 3gb/s, dual raid, 8-ch audio, dual pci-3 mean? Does the word NVIDIA mean this motherboard can hold the NVIDIA's video card? if so, does it mean it can hold any video card from NVIDIA?

Thanks in advance.

ComputerSuck · 11-26-2005, 09:13 PM

as my name suggest, I am suck at computer.

elmarcorulz · 11-26-2005, 09:26 PM

Whats your budget?

ComputerSuck · 11-26-2005, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elmarcorulz

Whats your budget?

my budget is somewhere around $500 canadians dollars(monitor not include in the $500). And I will spend around $300 to $400 on a LCD monitor.

liquidshadow · 11-27-2005, 06:31 PM

Thats about $430 USD so.......

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ $233
Hitachi Deskstar 160GB $90
DFI LANPARTY UT $113

=$436
If you want a lower price, you could go with a 3500+ instead but the 3700+ is only $30 more.

elmarcorulz · 11-27-2005, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liquidshadow

Thats about $430 USD so.......

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ $233
Hitachi Deskstar 160GB $90
DFI LANPARTY UT $113

=$436
If you want a lower price, you could go with a 3500+ instead but the 3700+ is only $30 more.

Still needs a dvd drive, RAM, a graphcis card. You missed out quite a bit

LastElement0 · 11-28-2005, 09:28 PM

barebone is just as it sounds, barebone. not exactly sure what u have to do. but im pretty sure it enables you to choose ur OS. as for ready to go. its um...ready for u to use right away lol, after you plug it in of course

11-26-2005, 09:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
ComputerSuck New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Toronto Posts: 18	Help Please! What should I buy and do? I am about to buy a cpu, a motherboard, memory, hard drive.... and LCD since Christmas is coming. But I simply don't know what to buy. There are so many CPU, motherboard, hard drive... Anyone here can give me some suggestions please as to what CPU is most worth to buy for its price? I only play game occastionally. I have heard that if a company is about to stop manufacturing a certain model of cpu( sorry I don't know much about computer but I am trying to assemble one on my own), then the price will drop, is it true? if so, what cpu will no longer exist in the near future and is most worthwhile to buy? also what brand of hard drive is good? and do I buy a motherboard first or a cpu first? I don't understand the meaning of these descriptions: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI w/ Dual-Ch DDR400, Dual Gb LAN, SATA 3Gb/s, Dual RAID, 8-Ch Audio, Dual PCI-E I understand ASUS is the name of a company. I don't understand what A8N-SLI deluxe means. Also, what does Dual-ch ddr400 , dual gblan, sata 3gb/s, dual raid, 8-ch audio, dual pci-3 mean? Does the word NVIDIA mean this motherboard can hold the NVIDIA's video card? if so, does it mean it can hold any video card from NVIDIA? Thanks in advance.

11-27-2005, 06:31 PM	#5 (permalink)
liquidshadow Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 1,040	Thats about $430 USD so....... AMD Athlon 64 3700+ $233 Hitachi Deskstar 160GB $90 DFI LANPARTY UT $113 =$436 If you want a lower price, you could go with a 3500+ instead but the 3700+ is only $30 more. __________________ [SIZE="1"]Intel Q6600 \| D-Tek Fuzion Block Asus P5K Deluxe \| Swiftech MCR320 Rad G-Skill 4GB \| Swiftech MCRES-MICRO Res WD Raptor 150 \| EK FC8800 GTX Block Seagate 320GB \| 3 * Yate Loon DM12SL Samsung S182 \| Swiftech MCP655 Pump Coolmax 700W Antec P180b NOW PARTING OUT, PM ME

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11-26-2005, 09:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
ComputerSuck New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Toronto Posts: 18	as my name suggest, I am suck at computer.

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elmarcorulz VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Age: 23 Posts: 6,033	Whats your budget?

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LastElement0 Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Some Uncool Place Age: 21 Posts: 63	barebone is just as it sounds, barebone. not exactly sure what u have to do. but im pretty sure it enables you to choose ur OS. as for ready to go. its um...ready for u to use right away lol, after you plug it in of course