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New Gaming PC for less than 1000 (USD)
Posted: 4 years ago
Well... These days a good amount of RAM is 2 gig. With windows XP, you can get away with 1 gig, but with Vista, 2 gig is a MUST.
Hard drive space, well, personally, I like a lot of space, so I'd go for something like a 320 gig hard drive.
With video cards, just scope out some of the latest release games. You'd be surprised at how cheap some of those cards actually are. Generally, you're looking for something fairly recent that is 512meg with a 4meg buffer. Oh, yeah... Personally, from my angle, I'd avoid NVidia cards because I've had the worst friggin luck with them. Everytime I get a mid-range NVidia card, it unexplainedly becomes obsolete within a few months.
Motherboards, I don't have any clue. But, a good way to generally test if it's going to be a good motherboard, is to throw all of your options against a wall, and whichever one doesn't break, wins.
As for CPU's, 2.0 is getting fairly outdated, you can get away with a 2.4, but if you want something that's going to last you a while, go a 3.0
Try this Aussie site to put your rig together. It's pretty cool. And gives you a quote in Aussie dollars.
http://www.computeralliance.com.au/Systems.aspx?qryServer=False&qryAll=True
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Posted: 4 years ago
If you are looking to just buy a computer the site below will tell you what deals different companies have. If you wait till about labor day I'm sure some good deals will pop up.
http://www.gotapex.com/
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Posted: 4 years ago
Vernand said:Hard drive space, well, personally, I like a lot of space, so I'd go for something like a 320 gig hard drive.
I wouldn't buy anything less than 1TB nowadays, it's like 10c.
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Posted: 4 years ago
telly here is what I had put together for under 1000, its an absolute beast of a machine that I am still debating on whether or not I wanna throw down the cash to build. All extremely highly recommended parts off newegg with top reviews and prob the best bang for your buck
http://buttpie.net/articles/read/building_a_new_pc
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Posted: 4 years ago
Just stop being a pussy and go buy a computer, imo.. Ask one of the dudes at Fry's what you can buy for under 1k.. Parts have not changed in the last 5 years, so you wont have a problem putting it together..
I just recently got back into computer hardware after a pretty long 3 year span of not really dealing with it.. Specifics have changed.. Parts have not..
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Posted: 4 years ago
LusiaPoosia said:Just stop being a pussy and go buy a computer, imo.. Ask one of the dudes at Fry's what you can buy for under 1k.. Parts have not changed in the last 5 years, so you wont have a problem putting it together..
I just recently got back into computer hardware after a pretty long 3 year span of not really dealing with it.. Specifics have changed.. Parts have not..
I am not sure wtf Fry's is, but don't go buying a brand name computer, you will get ripped off big time, get the parts and either pput it together yourslf or get someone else to do it for you
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Posted: 4 years ago
Or do what I do, promise DDan candy, and when he runs in expecting candy, tell him to put together your computer. ^_^
Then rape him. Rape EVERYONE.
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Posted: 4 years ago
Fry's is a huge electronics store that sells everything you could fucking think of. You walk into that store with nothing and walk out with every part to build your own computer.
Fry's electronics is not on the east coast it is only in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and California.
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Posted: 4 years ago
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tSav I built my current one in january because my old one broke.
I think I have 500 bucks in it. It runs like a beast.
My current setup is:
2.2ghz core duo @ 2.9ghz
Gigabyte P35 board
2gb of A-Data budget ram that I turned up the timing on
radeon hd 3850
320gb sata 3.0 drive I got from my dad for free
old cd-rom
430watt enermax power supply
How comfortable are you with overclocking?
All the core duos and quad cores overclock really well. My 2.2 has been at 2.9 since the very first boot up. Stock heat sink, stock voltage. Runs crusher tests, no problem. That's just the first speed I tried, if it can go higher than that (and it probably can) I haven't tried it.
I don't see any reason to buy a 3.0. Some people think overclocking is cheating, or unfair or something. I have helped everyone I know irl except the pentiums build a core duo/quad core machine, and they all overclock so well to buy a faster processor seems like money wasted.
If I was going to build a new machine right now I would probably get:
Radeon HD 4870 or Nvidia GTX 260, they are both at the $300 mark. The radeon has a performance advantage on average.
Honestly I might just bust the 4670 for under $100 though, it depends on how much performance you want.
Processor I'd go a wolfdale model core duo, for the 3mb cache. The 2.53 is only $120 on newegg, and if you check hardforum those all go 3.2+ghz with the stock heatsink and voltage.
Motherboard... you just need something with the 775 socket. The P35 is still a really affordable chipset, and has good performance. I have built machines with every motherboard brand there is, and I really like gigabytes. I could give a breakdown on my experience with every brand, but the only brand I have repeatedly had trouble with (Despite their net reputation for performance) is MSI.
This board would be good http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337
That is a DDR2 board. DDR3 doesn't offer much in the way of real world performance gains, but gigabyte offers a DDR3 model for about 20 bucks more.
Memory - get 2gb for Windows XP, and go straight to 4gb for Windows Vista. In tests a couple sites did it takes 4gb of ram on vista to have close to the same multi-tasking power of an xp system with 2gb.
I like A-Data ram. Its cheap, but I have put it in 5 systems now, and no problems. There are a ton of different performance brands you can step up to, I use corsair in ultra-performance machines.
Hard Drive - Every test Ive seen shows the Sata 3.0 drives are faster than the old raptor hard drives. So you probably don't need to be that picky. I would look on newegg at a couple different drives in your size and budget and see which one is the quietest.
Power supply - you will probably need a 500 watt unit by a decent maker to run a machine like this. On my brother's machine we tried doing a core duo with a 350watt and the add-on motherboard plugin cables at frys and it had a lot of lockups...
You can assemble your own rig right? Its lot more rewarding, and you are only talking about like 3 pieces nowadays without add-in sound cars and shit.
I am pretty constantly building machines of all price ranges, so if you have questions just hit me up on aim...
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Posted: 4 years ago
I mean, all you really need is a decent processor, two cheap GFX cards and a shitton of memory and you're set. Most of this shit can be bought for about 500 bucks or less, easily.
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Posted: 3 years ago
i was thinking about getting a new comp for warhammer, if i buy all the pieces separate i know i would save a lot of money but how hard is it to actually put it all together?
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Posted: 3 years ago
It is super easy to put together, as all your shit will only fit in one slot on the mother board. Most processors come with thermal paste already applied, so make sure you get one that does if you don't know what you're doing, or you can royally fuck your shit up if you do it wrong. Network cards and other PCI shit can go in any of the PCI slots, they are all down at the bottom of the board usually.
It will be obvious where your power cords for your hard drive/power supply fit on the board. The only thing I can think of is to make sure you match all the threaded pins to attach the board to your case correctly, but if you mess up it won't hurt anything; you can just move them again until they all line up.
Your ribbon cables for the hard drive(s) will only fit in one spot as well. It is really easy as shit to put a computer together. If you can't figure it out, make sure you get your whole head in front of the shotgun.
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Posted: 3 years ago
ThePenitentMan said:... If you can't figure it out, make sure you get your whole head in front of the shotgun.
He is actually flirting with you, he calls his penis 'The Shotgun'. shotgun being best man or maid of honor.
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Tellysavalas
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That's the topic. I'm saving up some dollars. I should be able to easily afford that in a month or two.
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Here is what I am currently running, a machine I built exactly 6 years ago, which has not changed at all since then (except my initial NVIDIA card blew up less than a year after I got it and I replaced it with the ATI one:
"The said:Motherboard ~ Asus A7V333 Motherboard
RAM ~ PC2700 DDR333 512MB 184-Pin
CPU/Heatsink ~ AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (266MHz FSB)
Video Card ~ ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB
Sound Card ~ Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Sound
Network Card ~ Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet Network Interface Card
Case ~ Lian-Li PC-08 Tower Aluminum Case (400w)
Hard Disk ~ WD IDE 100GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache WD1000JB
Hard Disk 2 ~ WD IDE 80GB 7200RPMG 8MB Cache WD800JB
DVD-ROM Drive ~ Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM IDE Drive
CD/RW Drive ~ Liteon 40x12x48 CD-RW Drive
My major problem is that, I have no idea what is good now. I haven't followed PC hardware in the slightest since I built this thing 6 years ago, and I'm looking through package deals and reading parts reviews now and I feel like a complete fucking idiot. I'd like mainly to just buy a packaged/boxed HP or something, because I'm absolute shit with computer hardware these days and would prefer to not have the hassle.
Has anyone bought a PC recently or seen any good deals or have any general advice? I can understand what I am getting as far as performance wise when I look at an individual piece of hardware, but I don't know what benchmarks constitute "good" these days (i.e. how much ram I should have, how much processing power I should have, how good of a video card I should have, etc.) That's the main advice I'm looking for. How hard of a system should I be looking at getting, and what's the best value I can get?