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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 States11552 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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iceburn
United States303 Posts
I would recommend dell or hp and just run it through some configs. or better yet wait for dell to do their bi weekly deals and get a quad core system with monitor at like 500. then spend however much on an ati 4870 graphics card. install it and be ready for some crazy speed. bam both worlds happy now. you won't have to really build your own system but you can make you diy ppl happy with an graphic card install | ||
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blabber
United States4448 Posts
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Cixelyn
United States11 Posts
I would definitely recommend building your own. It's not too bad, and you can get a slightly better build for $750 than if you were to purchase directly from HP or Dell. Otherwise, shop around and try out different configurations. A Dell Studio XPS machine isn't bad at all (nice quad core i7 processor in there) and the base configuration is $749. | ||
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BlueMorning
United States96 Posts
It will usually stay at my office at home, but I'm looking for a durable model to carry around from time to time. I will be using it for both work & gaming... any suggestions?? | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
Without much thought I did it, and don't regret it one bit. Took me a while to put it together. My father did most of the work, he loves doing projects. This guy doesn't know ANYTHING about computers but he managed to put it together in two days. He is the type of person that freaks out when he sees Firefox and insists he uses the "real internet" (referring to Internet Explorer). Well I'm online and writing this post with one sick looking computer. So far so good. Thanks guys <3 | ||
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ThunderGod
New Zealand897 Posts
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ghostWriter
United States3302 Posts
I had trouble getting my computer to start. I went over to my friend's house and after like 20 minutes, he finally figured out that the RAM was in the wrong place. Apparently it was 0213 instead of 0123 like I thought it was =/ | ||
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