Buying Gaming Rig

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pauldave

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I am looking to buy a gaming desktop, with a $1500 budget. I dont want to put the computer together. I am thinking IBUYPOWER will be good. I noticed they have a 5% off and free shipping on their Intel rig from thier weekly specials. Please help. Thank you. I do not need a mouse/keyboard/monitor
 
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ya i just looked on newegg and that is by far the best one that you can get, so go with that one if you're gonna get a prebuilt
 
I went to the Cyberpower website and I tried to put the same parts together and it turned out to be a cheeper price. Please let me know if this is the same. The one I put together came to $1469.00 with free shipping.

CASE: Hot !!! Apevia X-Telstar Junior 420W Case w/ Temp Display and Fan Control (S Type Black Color with Side-Panel 250mm UV LED Fan)

CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz 1333FSB 12MB L2 Cache 64-bit

MOTHERBOARD: Biostar TP45 HP Intel P45 CrossFire Chipset LGA775 FSB1600 DDR2/1066 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio

MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (4x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader)

VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 16X PCI Express (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA)

HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BLACK COLOR)

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO



Also I will probably go with a smaller Hard driver 1TB is overkill IMO
 
Looks about the same although The one I posted has 2x500GB HDDs in RAID and I wold prefer Gigabyte over Biostar as far as the motherboard.
 
Calibretto said:
Looks about the same although The one I posted has 2x500GB HDDs in RAID and I wold prefer Gigabyte over Biostar as far as the motherboard.
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I agree. Gigabyte makes better quality motherboards over Biostar. The NewEgg system is better out of the two options available so far.
 
yeah its pretty hard to beat newegg, i have done quite a lot of research concerning price, performance and quality and basically have just bought most of my computer stuff of newegg. It always pays to shop around!
 
it all depends on your abilities, if u could build a computer you get better performance for less but if not just buy one off newegg or somewhere
 
What about this mother board over the gigabyte?

MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 CrossFire Chipset LGA775 FSB1600 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, IEEE1394, & 7.1Audio
 
LOL, iBuyPower is crap. Often PPL report screws missing/lose. Also, try posting this in the computer equip. sales section.
 
ok so is this any different then the one from new egg? I can get this for about 150$ less because of the free shipping and 5% discount. Is there anything better for about the same price? That setup is about $1535.00

CASE: Hot !!! Apevia X-Telstar Junior 420W Case w/ Temp Display and Fan Control (S Type Black Color with Side-Panel 250mm UV LED Fan)

CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz 1333FSB 12MB L2 Cache 64-bit

MOTHERBOARD: Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 CrossFire Chipset LGA775 FSB1600 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, IEEE1394, & 7.1Audio

MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (4x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader)

VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 16X PCI Express (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA)

HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW) (BLACK COLOR)

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
 
Why not just make one

You could just go ahead and buy one, but for 1500 dollars you could buy the hardware and software, and just have someone quickly assemble it (for a nominal fee), or just assemble it, it isnt difficult (when i was 12 I assembled my first pc). If you buy the parts seperately and assemble it, you will get much greater value and have a better system for the money.
 
Ok, I think i am going to try and buy the parts and have someone put it together for me. I am going to do some more research then i will post the build that i am thinking of getting for any suggestions. Thanks
 
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