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Budget Gaming PC Build
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DivineNeo
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17. November 2008 @ 19:45 |
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17. November 2008 @ 21:04 |
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17. November 2008 @ 21:10 |
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GAMING COMPUTER - Intel q9550 @ 3.4ghz | EVGA GTX 260 core 216 | Gigabyte ds3l | 6gb Gskill DDR2 800 ram | Silverstone 700 watt psu | WD 640gb hdd | Seagate 300gb hdd | LG dvd burner | Samsung dvd burner | Antec p182 case | logitech 2.1 speakers | logitech g11 keyboard | Samsung 25.5in 1900x1200 monitor | 19in 1440x900 secondary monitor | Windows 7 64bit | SERVER - Gigabyte 785g motherboard | AMD Phenom 9650 | 6gb ram | three 1.5tb hdd | Seagate 1tb hdd | WD 750gb hdd | two 300gb hdd | Maxtor 200gb hdd | Ark rackmount case | CentOS 5.5
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DivineNeo
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17. November 2008 @ 21:39 |
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Well with what is selected right now, my friend could probably already play Crysis and CoD4 at a good rate...so which power supply would be better? I'm leaning towards the Antec earthwatts 500W.
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17. November 2008 @ 21:40 |
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The Corsair VX is a better unit really, but the Earthwatts is "good enough"
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DivineNeo
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17. November 2008 @ 23:28 |
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17. November 2008 @ 23:29 |
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That's a better unit, but unnecessary for this system.
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DivineNeo
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18. November 2008 @ 03:05 |
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Should I still stick with the TX650W, as the price they have is as equivalent as the VX450W with rebates and such? Even though it may not be necessary for the system, it could be futureproof...just in case he gets hooked up on some hard core game in the future.
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18. November 2008 @ 03:17 |
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Well, if it works out the same price go for it, it's a better unit in every way.
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18. November 2008 @ 12:37 |
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i would reccomend a P43/P45 chipset for PCIE 2.0 and if he only plays RTS's he could easily drop to an 8800GT :)
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18. November 2008 @ 14:49 |
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The 8800GTs are no longer sold new in the US, so you get overpriced open box ones, the new cards if you want to scale back are the HD4830, HD4670 and 9800GT. Of these, the HD4830 is a great deal:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102803
The HD4670 is also incredible value for money, but is significantly stunted in performance by comparison.
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DivineNeo
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18. November 2008 @ 18:37 |
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Thank you for the advices about the motherboard and the video card, I think he'll be satisfied with a HD 4830, I was also wondering if it would be alright to go from an E8400 to a cheaper alternative like a E7200, would that be alright?
My friend plays RTS games and not the up to date FPS games such as Crysis, Bioshock, or CoD4...he probably plays a bit of CS: Source or BF2142...you know...stuff that can be played without super expensive parts.
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19. November 2008 @ 05:12 |
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Well, Bioshock and COD4 aren't really any more demanding than C&C3 / RA3, it's mainly Crysis that kills. The only RTS game off the top of my head that is very demanding is Supreme Commander, so if he doesn't play that, that's fine. Even with an E7200 and HD4830, that's still a powerful enough PC to play Crysis and SC anyway, just not at absolute maximum settings.
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DivineNeo
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22. November 2008 @ 15:24 |
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22. November 2008 @ 15:27 |
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I'm not sure how far you'd get with overclocking that board, I own one similar and haven't tried it myself (it's my server, I see little point), but yes, that system can play those games on high without needing to overclock.
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benrvd
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23. November 2008 @ 10:33 |
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23. November 2008 @ 19:52 |
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The case is excellent, the monitor is OK, not great, but to get a quality one you'd be paying far more.
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DivineNeo
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26. November 2008 @ 00:16 |
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Ok, thanks for the inputs, my friend is looking forward to the new parts, but when I looked at his old motherboard, it was a "MSI AGP 8X" dates back to 2001, so what are the chances that his harddrive is SATA and not the old fashioned IDE? Is there anyway to tell? Can the new motherboard support IDE?
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26. November 2008 @ 03:30 |
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I didn't even know 8x AGP was out in 2001, I thought it was 4x back then. Suffice to say a PC I bought in 2004 with an 8x AGP slot still came with an IDE hard disk.
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DivineNeo
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26. November 2008 @ 19:11 |
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So assuming that he has an IDE harddrive, is it possible to have it connect to the motherboard you suggested? If im correct the motherboard runs on SATA 2
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27. November 2008 @ 06:18 |
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A lot of motherboards still have one IDE connector which allows you to connect two devices to it.
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