New Rig for gaming...

spraybottle

spraybottle

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My budget is around the $1000-1200. Yeah, I know that's not alot...Well, I was wondering what other good sites there are for bulding computers such as cyberpowerpc and dell. But, of course, I could always build one, but I'm only 14 and I doubt I would be able to build a nice rig... Lol so... Yeah...
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811165017
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817174023
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813123243
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103562
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145440
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102688
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827106019
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144416

$802 plus shipping. That's without a keyboard, mouse, speakers, or monitor, so you should easilly be able to find those if you'd like. Also, I have a case I'm trying to sell, if you want one with a window and all :P Oh, and BTW, the case was just the first one I saw, pretty much, that I liked. Any standard ATX should work just fine.
 
Yeah ok. But, I don't see how 7600gt is a downgrade. So far from that site, it looks like the 7600 gt is better with the better overall, faster core clock, and more memory?

Edit: Oh, I see, the benchmark....
 
It's your choice really. There's not a huge difference there, but the x850 does have higher fill rates, shaders, etc... However, it's an older card so it lacks some of the newer features. For the most part, though, I don't think that'll make a difference. Oh, I also hear it's quite noisy...
 
Since you have a budget over 1300 you can get a very good rig. I found some parts that would be around 1300$ with shipping. No case, monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers or OS.

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Asus A8N-E
Corsair XMS 1Gb (2x512Mb for Dual Channel setup)
XFX GeForce 7800GT
Antec Truepower II 550W
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.9 300Gb SATA (to be used in RAID0, or so I would suggest)
Plextor 18X DVD±R Burner

Total: 1239$ excluding shipping in the price.

This is something I picked out for a guy on another forum. All parts can be changed, like you could change the HDD if you don't need that much, but usually people need alot of space on their HDD(s). The motherboard could be easily swapped for a A8N-SLI Premium or something in those lines but I've heard bad things about the A8N-SLI.
 
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Sorry, but i think you read wrong. I said 1000-1200. But, either way, why do you say i should get single core? I would think that dual would be better than a single core... Wow, but if I think about it, that's a whole lot better than what i was going to get on cyberpowerpc... I mean, if i got an
amd x2 4200+ $357
the motherboard + $89
the graphics card + $289
I would get $735. Leaves me $265 for the other junk, and 200 for the monitor...

Hmm actually, now that i thought it over, 265 dollars isn't enough... Maybe i should lower the cpu, and lower the graphics card?
Yeah, so like
amd x2 3800+ $297
motherboard + $89
video card $ 170
That would leave me with $556 + 100 shipping? = $656. Now i have about $344.... Still don't think that's enough...
 
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mrjack said:
Since you have a budget over 1300 you can get a very good rig. I found some parts that would be around 1300$ with shipping. No case, monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers or OS.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3700+
Asus A8N-E
Corsair XMS 1Gb (2x512Mb for Dual Channel setup)
XFX GeForce 7800GT
Antec Truepower II 550W
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.9 300Gb SATA (to be used in RAID0, or so I would suggest)
Plextor 18X DVD±R Burner

Total: 1239$ excluding shipping in the price.

This is something I picked out for a guy on another forum. All parts can be changed, like you could change the HDD if you don't need that much, but usually people need alot of space on their HDD(s). The motherboard could be easily swapped for a A8N-SLI Premium or something in those lines but I've heard bad things about the A8N-SLI.
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x2 3700 ist it 3800 and im shure he will need a case an os and a monitor for the 1300 what use is all that stuff with out it
 
I'll try and find something for your budget. So you need case and all the usual computer parts. Do you need anything else?

EDIT:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 297$+0$

Corsair XMS 1Gb KIT 96$-15$

Antec Truepower II 550W 90$+3$-15$

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi 122$+6$

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300Gb SATA 110$+5$

Plextor 18x DVD±R DVD Burner 100$+0$

XFX GF7600GT 256Mb GDDR3 190$+4.70$-30$

Gigabyte GA-K8N PRO-SLI 99$+5.15$


TOTAL: ~1082.85$ including shipping and rebates.

Leaves around 100$ for case etc. To get more money for OS and case the HDD could be swapped for something cheaper.

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Or this rig which includes the essential parts and a case and a copy of Win XP.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 297$+0$

Corsair XMS 1Gb KIT 96$-15$

Antec Truepower II 550W 90$+3$-15$ (SLi compatible)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi 122$+6$

Plextor 18x DVD±R DVD Burner 100$+0$

XFX GF7600GT 256Mb GDDR3 190$+4.70$-30$

Gigabyte GA-K8N PRO-SLI 99$+5.15$ (Allows buying another 7600GT to run in SLi if you want in the future)

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA 83$+5$

Windows XP Home SP2 OEM 85$+2$

iStarUSA S8 Storm Series Black Computer Case 25$+13$ (The_Other_One's suggestion of case)

Total: ~1165.85$
 
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i'd get an x850xt... the reason the 7600GT is favored is cus of the common nVidia fanboyism...lol mebbe ppl like the limegreen colors, idk...

anyway this is my wack at what you should get... more expensive then The_Other_One's but alot better...



$1150


more expensive then the other one's but also has a better processor, ram, video card, and power supply...

mostly rips you other people's configurations apart... (no offence)

and and you guys have sound cards... so mebbe add a $60 dound card or something:P

o to all you people that are gona come and give ur thing about "don't get a 4200+ the 3800+ can overclock to it..."
well no. 1, this guy i doubt is gona overclock
no 2. i don't agree with you guys that the 3800+ is just as good as the 4200+...


and to all you people that are gona come say he should get a 7900GT... that has only 256MB... the X1800XT has a whopping 512mb...;)

Pce
-Caleb
 
Memory isn't everything :P And do you have shipping included in the final price. Plus, you forgot to add a copy of Win XP. And the X2 4200 costs 357$ not 257$. Your price would be 1117.5$ including rebates and shipping but excluding case and OS. So the price would be around 1200-1300$ with OS and a case.
 
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