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prophet001

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Hi,
I am new to the forum and I have a question about a new system purchase. I have never built my own computer and for that reason I am kind of worried about me trying to "work through" the assembly of 5k dollars worth of hardware. Anyway, I was wanting to get a machine that is around 5500 or less. I'm not sure who to go with and everything seems to be very opinionated. I just shipped back a gateway fx510xt that I thought would be a good pick but which came with massive failures, was repaired and sent back out with even more failures. In light of that I am a little worried about who I should buy from. I have considered Dell, ABS, and Velocity Micro. I am looking for a machine that has the following: x6800 intel c2d, 4g ram, 975x mobo, 2 raid 0 hdd, air cooled, x1950 xfire card, x1950 xtx slave card, x-fi sound card, ~750W PSU, good support, reliability, performance. Falcon-NW is an obvious choice but they go a little too far. Anyway, if anyone can give any help or advice I would greatly appreciate it. Should I build my own? I am really leaning away from this being a noob and all. Thank you again for your advice.

Preston :)
 
$5,500 can buy A LOT, and it can even buy more if you build it yourself. What do you want to do on this RIG?

Check out www.newegg.com thats one of the cheapest sites for in the US for comp parts.
 
hey thanks for the reply.

i want to draw triangles :D really fast. also i want it to be stable (no water cooling) and have longevity (you don't buy this kind of system that often) i know that i can get more bang for my buck by building it by myself but i would not be in a good place if i smoked the chip or one of the cards in the process. having never done a build b4 i don't know if i should build this myself or not. add to that the raid 0 setup and the xfire setup as well and i'm on shaky ground. i'm sure i could figure it out but i'm more worried about busting something than anything else.

Preston
 
lol drawing triangles
well iam gonna build my first computer over this month and iam bit nervous on building it but ive been told its easy.

but you can get alot better stuff if u build verse buying one

but depending on what to do withit maybe buying is a consideration







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thank you for the reply.

i've never used ava direct... i just built a system on their site though and wow... how can they be so cheap? anyway, anyone have any thoughts on buying a system from ava direct?
 
 
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yeahh, and if you build it, you can probrably throw something together that crushes that system..

what do you need 4G RAM 4?!
 
man jet that is a nice looking system you assembled.
i don't know if i can build something like that though. as a matter of fact i'm very worried that i can't. i've done small things like replace heat sinks on gpus and fdisk /format , but i've never even come close to building my own system. anyway, if there are resources for it i guess i could b/c that is a really really nice system you show there. also what is the success rate of system building? how many times do you boot up and it goes w/o any problems. how many times do you boot up and it does nothing? if it boots up and does nothing then i am seriously out of gas and i have a 5k dollar paper weight
 
If it boots up and does nothing, then you find what the problem is and fix it! Manufacturers have warranties, you know. The vast majority of first time builders do fine, as long as they don't think they know everything.

If you are really concerned, you can get an Antistatic wristband, so you won't fry your components. Other than that, as long as you don't go around throwing your nice new parts at the wall, you will be fine :)
 
prophet001 said:
thank you for the reply.

i've never used ava direct... i just built a system on their site though and wow... how can they be so cheap? anyway, anyone have any thoughts on buying a system from ava direct?
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I bought from them a couple of months ago, Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 and memory and such. It was pretty cool, I opened up the system and they did all this wire managment and stuff. A couple of my friend got stuff from them too and so for so good, no problems.
 
Hey Prophet nice to see your resource rather interesting. And again Jet awsome rig you have there. I have personally never bought a brand new OEM computer I find there no reason to. I actually find it better to take those cheap HP and EMachines find one with an OK processor and good hard drive and then swap parts. Bulding computers has been pretty much a hobby of mine since the old i386 days. LOL. Back when 16mb of ram was unheard of let alone 16GB. Build it. Honestly I find the hardest sweat breaker in building a computer is clipping the heat sink back on the processor braket clips. Always freaks me out. Well Got to get going. Talk to you later.
 
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