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Building a gaming pc?
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coryparks
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24. June 2008 @ 14:01 |
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Hey everyone im new to the whole building my own computer. I wanna build a gaming computer with XFX nForce 780i 3-Way SLI Motherboard and a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Processor BX80569Q9450 - 2.66GHz, 12MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Yorkfield, Quad-Core, Retail, Socket 775, Processor with Fan CPU.... but thats about all i know... i dont know wat graphics cards and stuff i should get ... i dont want to spend more than 200 a piece for the rest of the parts so could anyone give me some suggestion for like the cases, ram , graphics card, hard drive , ect... thanks..
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24. June 2008 @ 14:13 |
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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
Steam name = "krj15489" alias = Jordan-k
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coryparks
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24. June 2008 @ 21:32 |
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awesome man you have no idea how much this helps also wat graphic card would you recommend for like the 300 dollar range? or is that wat the gpu thing is you were talking about?
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24. June 2008 @ 23:00 |
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mobo $225
cpu $330
ram $85
psu $110
hdd $80
dvd $30
gpu $250-$300 ?
case $100-$150
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$1210-$1310
the gpu is the video card. the one i suggested will be in your price range.
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
Steam name = "krj15489" alias = Jordan-k
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25. June 2008 @ 07:17 |
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GPU = Graphics processing unit, technically it means the processor on the graphics card, not the whole card itself, but we tend to slang it here to mean the whole product.
That's a very sound product list there, any of the three cases mentioned will serve you well.
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25. June 2008 @ 21:49 |
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26. June 2008 @ 05:23 |
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hmm, an extra 65 dollars though, not cheap...
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26. June 2008 @ 11:10 |
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Yeah, but you have to admit it IS is quality motherbaord. Plus it's 215 openbox. I know someone who bought it open box and the soundcard was missing and Asus even gave him that for free.
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26. June 2008 @ 11:12 |
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Lol for $215 Open Box I should hope so! I'm sure the rampage is a quality board, but there comes a point when you wonder where the extra money goes. They may be lacking in extra overclocking features, but Gigabyte and MSI's offerings are not lacking in build quality, and DFI boards I imagine would also be up to the same par for BIOS features as well.
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26. June 2008 @ 11:22 |
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I think the extra money goes into PROBABLY higher quality, and a LOT more BIOS options. Although if he wants to go the cheap route he can always get a P5E and flash it to a Rampage Formula. It wont be as good because the hardware isn't the same, but still pretty damn close.
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26. June 2008 @ 11:26 |
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I'm not going to continue this discussion any further, or it'll just get silly. If you can afford the Rampage do it, if not, go with the X48-DS4.
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26. June 2008 @ 11:54 |
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Yeah, don't really need mobo wars. I persoanlly use Gigabyte ALL the time and yes they do make great boards. I have had one just fail out of nowhere, but that was just once(it was a GA-EP35-DS3R). Oh and I bought one open box and that one was messed up too(GA-965P-DS3).
The GA-X48-DS4 is a great board. The Rampage formula is too. What ever your budget can afford, I'm just throwing in another option out there.
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coryparks
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26. June 2008 @ 21:06 |
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so wats the big difference between the 2 mb?
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26. June 2008 @ 22:35 |
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The Asus is more expensive, it DOES OC a bit better, and it has a lot of fine tuning options.
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27. June 2008 @ 07:06 |
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be advised though that by 'a bit better' we mean things like it's a little easier to get to 4.2Ghz than with the Gigabyte board, and it'd probably still be doable with the latter anyway, but when you're reaching those kind of speeds you usually run into voltage concerns with 45nm chips anyway - personally, with a 45nm CPU, I don't think you'll see much of a difference in overclocking prowess.
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coryparks
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27. June 2008 @ 21:30 |
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cool so pretty much all that stuff he listed up there is really all i need i dont need any fans or w.e. for the MB or does it come with one or i dunno lol sry like i said be for im completely new on the whole making a computer deal xD
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27. June 2008 @ 21:37 |
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Well we didn't really form a complete list.
Tell us after all these suggestions, what you plan on buying and you can fine tune it from there.
As far as can see this is what you're getting:
Q9450
GA-X48-DS4
ATI Radeon 4850
Corsair 650TX
The HDD and DVD krj suggested.
What case did you pick? Also if you plan on overclocking(you should) you want to get a aftermarket CPU cooler.
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coryparks
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28. June 2008 @ 08:11 |
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28. June 2008 @ 11:50 |
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29. June 2008 @ 07:02 |
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A sound component list. The G-Skill memory wouldn't have been my first choice, but there's nothing wrong with it especially.
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coryparks
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9. July 2008 @ 22:30 |
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ya i just looked into the 4870 acutally looks bad ass should be nice when i get it xD
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coryparks
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4. August 2008 @ 18:02 |
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can someone link me to the new ati 4870 graphics card he was talking about? i searched it on newegg and got alot of different ones... wats the difference thx
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4. August 2008 @ 18:05 |
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coryparks
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4. August 2008 @ 18:18 |
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4. August 2008 @ 18:47 |
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If you want to OC(you should, it's easy and gives a lot more performance), you should think about getting a CPU cooler. Something like a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme(not avaliable at newegg), or a Tuniq Tower will come in handy.
Other than that, everything looks good.
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