750-800 Dollar Budget

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delirium

New Member
Help! I am in need of a decent gaming computer with a mere budget like mine. I was trying to do it myself but I would love to see some other suggestions. The games I plan to play are

Warhammer Online
COD4
and possibly crysis.

also I would like somthing that would be easy to upgrade in the future.


thanks!



I am also NOT in need of a monitor,keyboard, or mouse.
 
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delirium

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no im just getting into it, I was looking to go bare bone then fill in the gaps. I'm not asking for a maxed out crysis computer, I understand 800 bucks wont get me that...Im just saying eventually I will gradually upgrade. I at least want to start with something along the lines of this:


2.5 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
· 2 Gigabyte RAM
· A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
· At least 15 GB of hard drive space


and atleast one of these cards:

ATI Radeon

· 9500, 9600, 9800
· X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
· X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
· 2400, 2600, 2900,
· 3650, 3850, 3870
· 4850, 4870

NVIDIA Geforce

· FX 5900, FX 5950
· 6600, 6800,
· 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
· 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
· 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
· GTX 260, GTX 280
 
Ambushed

Ambushed

Active Member
What country are you from? so we can sort out the correct online store to create a shopping list for you.

750-800 USD budget?
 
Ambushed

Ambushed

Active Member
CPU -Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
$189.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036

XFX PVT98WYDFH GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
$199.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150314

Western Digital WD Caviar Blue WD4000AAJB 400GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - Retail
$64.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136258

That's just the CPU, GFX card and HDD and it comes to $454.97, do you need monitor/case etc
 
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delirium

New Member
Ambushed said:
CPU -Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail
$189.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115036

XFX PVT98WYDFH GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
$199.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150314

Western Digital WD Caviar Blue WD4000AAJB 400GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - Retail
$64.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136258

That's just the CPU, GFX card and HDD and it comes to $454.97, do you need monitor/case etc
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that looks pretty good

for a case I was thinking:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811160015


Also, what do you reccommend for a MOBO and memory? I still need to keep it under 800
 
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cableguy

New Member
Your budgets not that bad in today's market

I just wanted to add my two cents, but in my opinion your budget is not that bad. You could get a nice base system with all of your listed requirements and be well within your budget. Giving you money left over to upgrade your video and sound cards to your liking. Just a thought.
 
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bcohen4

New Member
oh you live in Richmond? I'm up in Fairfax, that's cool

anyway it looks like you got about $200 left on the budget, I would recommend 4 gigs of ram no matter what (it just makes computing smoother).

the next question is: Do you want to overclock?

this will affect your ram/mobo choices.
 
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delirium

New Member
bcohen4 said:
oh you live in Richmond? I'm up in Fairfax, that's cool

anyway it looks like you got about $200 left on the budget, I would recommend 4 gigs of ram no matter what (it just makes computing smoother).

the next question is: Do you want to overclock?

this will affect your ram/mobo choices.
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fairfax is cool, I used to live there before I moved! As far as overclocking I would not know how to go about doing that since I am new to computer hardware.
 
Ambushed

Ambushed

Active Member
Good to see new members helping new members :). But I would suggest you not to overclock unless you know what you are doing.

So delirium, what else do you need apart from a case.
 
Ramodkk

Ramodkk

VIP Member
DVD Burner:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068

Hard Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262

Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130380

Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139001

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

Processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115052

Operative System:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186148

TOTAL w/Shipping: $814.29
 
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delirium

New Member
ramodkk said:
DVD Burner:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068

Hard Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262

Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130380

Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139001

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

Processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115052

Operative System:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116488

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186148

TOTAL w/Shipping: $814.29
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that build looks great! is that all I need for it to be up and running ( besides monitor and keyboard)?
 
IrishLard

IrishLard

New Member
you could get an 8800 gt video card and a dual core amd processor for pretty cheap, both of which will allow you to play the games listed, also make sure you get 4gb of ram
 
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