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budget gaming/media pc
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screw_ball
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28. September 2010 @ 14:39 |
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ok so recently my ol'hunk of a junk gaming PC bit the big bazooka and I want to build a new computer I want it to be able play games at 1600 x 1200 on at least medium graphics I also would like it to be able to stream and transcode video to my ps3 with out taking a framerate hit on the video, I already have a case, monitors keyboards etc,
I would prefer this to not be to hard on the wallet but I am willing to spend more if its Nessie.
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29. September 2010 @ 07:45 |
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Any ideas on a rough budget? What's a lot of money to some people is relatively little to others, and vice versa.
Also, which country are you based in?
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29. September 2010 @ 11:48 |
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I', Canadian and 4-500 low end 1000 high end
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30. September 2010 @ 16:09 |
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$500 CAD Build
Athlon II X2 255 CPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103844
Biostar A785GE M/B: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138156
2GB Corsair XMS2 RAM: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145590
Western Digital 500GB HDD: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073
LG GH24NS50 24x DVDRW: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136177
Corsair CX 430W PSU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139017
Antec Three Hundred case: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042
XFX Radeon HD4670 GPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150450
This is $502 shipped, with $25 of mail-in rebates, so ultimately $477.
It is mostly quality stuff, but it does not have much memory, the graphics card is better than the ones in prebuilt PCs, but not very powerful, and it is still only a dual core CPU.
It's a PC that will play games, but not a PC that will play games well.
$750 CAD Build
Athlon II X4 630 CPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103704
Gigabyte MA770T-UD3 M/B: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128451
4GB Corsair XMS3 RAM: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145251
Western Digital 1TB HDD: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
LG GH24NS50 24x DVDRW: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136177
XFX Radeon HD5770 GPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150447
Corsair CX 430W PSU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139017
Antec Three Hundred Illusion case: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066
This is $748 shipped, with $40 of mail-in rebates, so ultimately $708.
Here you get a much more powerful graphics card (more than double the power), a quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM and a terabyte of disk space. The case also now has more cooling in the form of two extra fans.
An adequate midrange PC that is all-round twice the specification of the $500 unit. Buying cheap PCs for gaming is a false economy!
$1000 CAD Build
Core i5 760 CPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115067
Gigabyte P55A-UD3 M/B: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128412
4GB Corsair XMS3 RAM: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145251
Western Digital 1TB HDD: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
LG GH24NS50 24x DVDRW: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136177
Zotac Geforce GTX460 GPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500173
Corsair VX 550W PSU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139004
Antec Three Hundred Illusion: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066
This is $1004 shipped, with $45 of mail-in rebates, so ultimately $999.
The CPU here is twice as powerful as the X4 630 in the last PC, though the rest of the components are the same except for the graphics card, which are the most two important components for gaming performance.
The GTX460 is roughly 30% faster than the HD5770 in the previous system.
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30. September 2010 @ 16:26 |
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hmm, toss out the case, the video card, dvd drive and the hdd drives cause they have been salvaged from my computer should give me a fair bit more wiggle room for better stuff
I have a 3870 HD radeon card a two 1 tb hdds
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30. September 2010 @ 16:28 |
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Depends on the case. No point putting a high-end card in a crappy case with no ventilation or it will overheat.
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30. September 2010 @ 16:31 |
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oh ventilation is not a problem, my case is water cooled and air cooled, only reason my last system died is because my PSU surged my mobo and poped every cap on the damn thing
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30. September 2010 @ 16:34 |
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Out of curiosity, Which brand was the PSU?
I'm thinking one of the following:
Bestec/Qtec/Rosewill/Aspire/Apevia/Huntkey/Deer/SilenX/HEC/EZCool
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30. September 2010 @ 16:38 |
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I cant recall off the top of my head but I think it was a bestec
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30. September 2010 @ 16:40 |
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Sounds about right. That list is all the brands I commonly see that routinely blow PCs like that.
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30. September 2010 @ 16:41 |
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Yeah I was planning on buy a Corsair PSU most likley
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