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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
The money I have at the moment is $750 exactly. With this money, I need to buy the best possible shiznit I can find. Computers aren't my expertise though - and building them from scratch would be near impossible for me. So far the only thing I found remotely appealing is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883107985 And then I'd have around $100 left for a shitty monitor... So I feel like I'm screwed. Any help or directions would be appreciated.  | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
edit: Are you 100% sure about not building one yourself? | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
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lighter
United States152 Posts
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
should play most games at pretty high resolution http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Mega_Special_III/ this is actually pretty good i think, older chipset though | ||
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StalinRusH
United States734 Posts
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
On September 14 2009 03:51 Myrmidon wrote: All I know is not to get that because it has integrated video (dur). edit: Are you 100% sure about not building one yourself? What does integrated video mean? And if it is that much better to build one by myself I might consider it if people give me a good walk through and if it is almost fool proof. Do you have mouse/headset/speakers/keyboard/monitor already? Keeping as much of the old stuff as you can will definitely help cut costs True, but I'm due for new stuff. All the equipment I have is very, very old. My mouse is on the verge of dying and my keyboard is so disgusting. And unfortunately the old computer that I use currently will be going back to my father once I buy a new one so I cannot use the monitor, which was rather nice. have you considered simply upgrading your old comp? Yeah but it is so old I don't think it can be properly upgraded afaik. I think someone tried to put more ram into it and it didn't work. Just remember that the single most important part of a gaming computer is the video (graphics) card. Excellent. What graphics cards should I be looking for though? | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=101651 Can't really help though, the only reason I made the blog was cause I don't know anything bout comps >0 | ||
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StalinRusH
United States734 Posts
just have to make sure everything is compatible. Otherwise its just basically plug things in | ||
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Bebop Berserker
United States246 Posts
The most important thing is the processor (not the video card...) The video card relieves the processor of some specific duties. Basically i would advice to get a dual core(or quad but they cost more) with at least 2.5Ghz processing power. as for a video card get what you want, but pretty soon(if not already) they are coming out with new lines of them, so they all will jump down in price. Depending on what you can find I prefer Nvidia.(maybe a high end 9 series would be the best value) Also the size of the hard drive is obviously important, but not expensive for a hundred gig hard drive. Lastly, the amount of cache on the videocard and cpu are somewhat important. anything 6 megs and up on a quad core is ideal.(its not too big of a deal, but it does help with a lot of smaller tasks like web browsing  ) | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On September 14 2009 04:03 SCC-Faust wrote: What does integrated video mean? Excellent. What graphics cards should I be looking for though? Integrated video means it has no graphics card, so it's your general-purpose processor doing what the graphics card (specialized hardware that does graphics efficiently) should be doing. i.e. really bad for gaming | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9384285&type=product&id=1218096181010 | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
oo didnt see this one | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
On September 14 2009 05:07 SCC-Faust wrote: Hey is this a good deal?: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9384285&type=product&id=1218096181010 thats terrible | ||
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
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Ecael
United States6703 Posts
A lot of companies using that NZXT case actually, anyone own one of those around here? | ||
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