chris82 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Ok...so as you may or may not know, my PC sucks. It was never meant for gaming and is horrible. I can't stand choosing between unplayble framerates or horrible graphics. My current PC is a: 2.6GHz Pentium 4 without HT or SSE3 nVidia FX5500 PCi (Not PCI-e. Standard PCi, and it's a DirectX 8 card) 1GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM (2x512mb) 80GB+120GB 7200RPM Hard drives ATA/100 400w HP Branded PSU Some shitty mobo with no AGP or PCIe slots Windows XP Home So as you can see...I want to gauge my eyes out rather than continue playing games on this. So I am getting: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ AM2 Proc (Ironic that this slower-clocked processor performs better, eh Intel) ATi Radeon x1600PRO gpu ASUS nForce4 mobo Western Digital 250GB SATA 3.GB/Sec hd G.SKILL 1GB DDR2 800 RAM JPAC ATx Case w/ window and LCD temp display and 500w PSU Windows XP Professional I'm trying to make it as cheap as possible but I still want it to be able to run all my games at max settings at 1280x1024. It comes to around $554 not counting shipping and will be the first PC I have ever built. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I'm going to be doing something similar over winter break, but I'm going to be keeping the same memory and same hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayer Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I'll just add another 2x1GB or DDR2 RAM. Then I'll have 3gigs total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate10 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I usually go with the AMDs. Good "people". But yeah, I'm not to tech savy but I'd say go with the AMD. Don't know much about the others like you do so don't take to much thought into my suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 I would go with the new Intel Core 2 Duo, but the price on them is outrageous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Maybe wait till Vista is released, otherwise youl buy operating systems twice, unless you don't wont Vista "around $554" how can you get it for that price with those specs? I'v been looking for a new computer myself and I can't seem to get it cheaper than 1500 Euro if I wont some good specs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 He's building it himself. And I'm not going to trust vista for a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHEW-GUN Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Yea, i think you'll pull it off just fine. Have you guys heard of a QUADCORE??? Its from Intel, and its like four micro proces in one. Idk if its in production yet, but i read about it in Wall Street Journal. no,not a paper reader, but work there and just saw the headline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I haven't hear of it.. And I wish I knew how to build by self a pc. It would make it far cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I believe the quad cores are a dual core with HT for each one. 2 physical cores and 2 logical cores for each physical core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmy Vermicceli Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I actually had a computer store build mine.When I first took it home and tried it out,it was kinda slow.That is until I configured my BIOS.Damn she runs sweet now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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