ChrisUlrich
Active Member
I am gonna purchase a PC with a $2500 budget from a private PC Store in town. I want to utitlize every single Penny in this purchase... I definitely want room to upgrade for when that time comes.
If I can buy a more expensive part but can't afford that $110 sound card now cuz it doesn't fit inside the budget... I want that more expensive part!
I was thinking...:
Best Motherboard I can purchase for AMD (Within about $250)
AMD Athlon 64 5000+ X2
500gb RAID 0 16mb Cache @ 10000rpm
250gb Storage Drive (Debatable since I can always throw that in later)
Dual 7900GT
2gb of PC6400 DDR2 (Or would 3gb be better)
Some X-Fi Sound Card... Thinking maybe the Elite or Fatality.
700 Watt PSU
Not sure of case... I want an awesome case obviously but I am soooo case clueless it's ridiculous (Especially considering i'm just about oblivious to hardware in general!).
Nice Pretty Lights!
Some kinda Cooling system. Thinking of Thermaltake water cooling.
No Monitor
No Keyboard
No Mouse
What do you guys think? I think that comes to about $2400 somewhere... prices are from Tigerdirect. I might be off a bit but I did a build last week using slightly different parts and it came out to $2200.
If I can buy a more expensive part but can't afford that $110 sound card now cuz it doesn't fit inside the budget... I want that more expensive part!
I was thinking...:
Best Motherboard I can purchase for AMD (Within about $250)
AMD Athlon 64 5000+ X2
500gb RAID 0 16mb Cache @ 10000rpm
250gb Storage Drive (Debatable since I can always throw that in later)
Dual 7900GT
2gb of PC6400 DDR2 (Or would 3gb be better)
Some X-Fi Sound Card... Thinking maybe the Elite or Fatality.
700 Watt PSU
Not sure of case... I want an awesome case obviously but I am soooo case clueless it's ridiculous (Especially considering i'm just about oblivious to hardware in general!).
Nice Pretty Lights!
Some kinda Cooling system. Thinking of Thermaltake water cooling.
No Monitor
No Keyboard
No Mouse
What do you guys think? I think that comes to about $2400 somewhere... prices are from Tigerdirect. I might be off a bit but I did a build last week using slightly different parts and it came out to $2200.