Cheaper (than most) semi-gaming PC Build Help Required

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SlowMo

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Edit: Build Check Requested - Cheaper (than most) semi-gaming PC Build Help Required

Hey everyone, this is my first post here, as you may notice from the post count. Anyways, I'm in the market for a new PC.

Here's what I've got, mostly:

An old dell from 10 years ago in college, it's a PIII-866MHz, 768mb ram, and I think a 32 meg nVidea gfx card. Bottom line: It's Slow, really slow.

So I need a new one for some gaming / some graphics work (photoshop / CAD software), nothing too fancy, as I'll go into shock if i use a superPC.

I've been browsing around and reading the 101 sticky's and I'm still lost. Off of dell.com I can get what i want, seemingly, for $1200-1400, but I'm sure I can put a better one for less together.

Looking for around $1k, with everything. 19" monitor, 160gig HD is okay, 1 gig ram, and I was thinking dual core AMD, but no real reason why, other than keeping cost down. I won't be overclocking or modding, and boring cases are a-ok with me.

If you've got any ideas, zing em on in. I was checking out the $700 system in the computers 101 area, but I think that post was from february?

Thanks for any help,

SlowMo
 
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Hellow and welcome to the forum.


For 1000$ US you can get a computer like mine. I spent $1.2k Canadian on it.

Here are the specs, if your interested in building your own computer.
I can get u the links. Here is a rough sketch


Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Viewsonic 19" Widescreen
1-2 GB 667 Mhz Overclockable Ram
Nvidia 7600GT
200 GB of HD
Antec Sonata II Case w/ 450W PSU
Asus P5B Motherboard
DVD Writer

*changes may apply*

So if you are interested, please reply:D


Nice day,

Toby
 
How's this look?

Okay, based on b3atofang3l's recommendations, I've tried the following: Let me know if it's close or if it'll fail miserably (or if I can get away with paring away any $$ from the total.

Thanks!

Case: Rosewill R604TBLK-N 120mm Fan ATX Mid Tower Computer Case+450W Power Supply

Mobo: ASUS P5B Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

Gfx Card: eVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit System Memory

LCD: BenQ FP202W Black 20.1" 8ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 600:1

HDD: Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

CD/DVD: SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology - OEM

Keyboard / Mouse: Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 967561-0403 Black 102 Normal Keys 12 Function Keys USB + PS/2 RF Wireless Standard Keyboard Mouse Included - Retail

Speakers: Logitech Z-4i 40 Watts 2.1 Speaker - Retail

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2b 1pk w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - OEM

Whew, that's all folks, hopefully it's close to working.
 
Nice

That system is very nice although here are a couple things I would change.

The speakers. Still Logitec but 5.1's for cheaper.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121126

The motherboard. I have an ASUS P5B myself but it's the deluxe and I think the Gigabyte S3 would suit you better and has better reviews. It also benchmarked on par with my motherboard and a lot of other high end mobo's.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128017

Ram. If you can afford it I would get 2GB at least. It will make the system seem faster and help with gaming and AutoCAD stuff. That's more of a $ call though. But with Vista coming out and you getting a free upgrade coupon I would def get 2gb as Vista is requiring more ram.

But you did really well for your first try. In fact what you've got will work those are just my suggestions. Good Job. :D
 
Thanks Grey410, it wasn't really my build, stole it from b3atofang3l with a few mods.

With your recommendations, the price only goes up about $100 (if that). Maybe I can dig up my current XP disk and save the $130 from that too.
 
Sweet

What is the price total without my recommandations and with it? Thanks. Trying to help another person save some money too. :D
 
First build was $1180.39
Your mods make it $1234.89
So $50 more for 5.1 speakers, a gig of RAM and the other Mobo, not bad.
 
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