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[Billy Pumper]

this is fun i can't wait till next week to buy my new sh*t i just don't know what i want first, (don't mean to hijack) its a 1600 pro i know its not fancy but neither is my cpu so no need to pretend i have a bad ass rig and waste my money just to bottle neck it.

[Aziz]

Check this out Aziz.

http://www.tomshardw...pu_charts_2005/

That'll give you an idea..

Cool.
I was just wondering. Im still going to go with AMD.
Im still pondering upon RAM.. I dont know whether i should get 2gb or 1gb. 1gb seems like not enough.
Probably not gonna get 2 videocards. Just the 7800gt or gtx, ifll have some money to spare.

[Aziz]

OK, i dropped it down 300 bucks...

$2025.00

CASE : Hot New! X-Cruiser Mid-Tower 420W Case W/ WINDOW, MultiMeter Display & Control (Silver Color)
CPU : (939-pin) AMD Athlon�64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
MOTHERBOARD : (Sckt939)ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCIE MB w/GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE-1394,&7.1Audio
MEMORY : 1024 MB (512MBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Kingston Hyper-X High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader)
VIDEO CARD : NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
VIDEO CARD 2 : NONE
MONITOR & LCD : NONE
HARD DRIVE : 200GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive -- Recommended
Hard Drive 2 : NONE
Optical Drive : LiteOn SHM-165H6S 16X Double Layer DVD+-RW Super Allwrite + Lightscribe Technology (Black Color)
Optical Drive 2 : SONY 16X DVD-ROM (BLACK COLOR)
SOUND : New! Creative Labs X-FI XtremeMusic 24-BIT PCI Sound Card

[Lost]

Ah that seems a bit better.. although I'm not exactly sure if the sound card is necessary.. I just don't know what the benefits are over the 7.1 thats on the motherboard.. Of course I have an audigy and 7.1 onboard.. and I use the audigy.. never tried the onboard one.

[Aziz]

I write my own music. I do lots of editing. And i live with music. So i require i good sound card. I have a built-in now...i wanna shoot myself. However, ill have to wait for about a month to save up for 5.1 set.

[Aziz]

Is there a place i could find cheap, but good LCDs?

[Sniprwulf]

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ $334
MSI SLI K8N Motherboard $104
EVGA 7800 GT PCI-E $270
ANTEC 500watt PSU $67
2gb pc3200 OCZ gamer memory $164
3x250GB SATA-II Wd hd $303
2xNEC DVD-R, RW drive 16x $90
Case of your choice around $100
Windows XP Home Edition $90

GRAND TOTAL $1522 Shipped to your door
all prices courtesy of zipzoomfly.com

extra 19" 2ms!!! gamer LCD, $370
bringing your total to $1892

if you wanna upgrade from the 4000+ to the x2 4200+, its an extra $23 bringit it to $1924

tell me whatchu think aziz

Edited by Sniprwulf, 28 February 2006 - 07:21 PM.

[Novahawk]

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ $334
MSI SLI K8N Motherboard $104
EVGA 7800 GT PCI-E $270
ANTEC 500watt PSU $67
2gb pc3200 OCZ gamer memory $164
3x250GB SATA-II Wd hd $303
2xNEC DVD-R, RW drive 16x $90
Case of your choice around $100
Windows XP Home Edition $90

GRAND TOTAL $1522 Shipped to your door
all prices courtesy of zipzoomfly.com

extra 19" 2ms!!! gamer LCD, $370
bringing your total to $1892

if you wanna upgrade from the 4000+ to the x2 4200+, its an extra $23 bringit it to $1924

tell me whatchu think aziz

1892 + 23 = 1924? nice...

Edited by Novahawk, 28 February 2006 - 07:49 PM.

[ShLoNkY]

Id say that Snipr is on the right track.

As far as memory goes, I'd go with Corsair Value select. Its cheap, and it works well. I don't care for the fancy/expensive stuff as my value select OC's damn near as good as anything out there. My 2ghz 3200+ runs at 2.4 ghz ALL day.

I'd also strongly reccomend a western digital Raptor HDD. You can get a 74GB one for like $120 now a days. If you look at benchmarks, the Raptors smoke just about every drive ever made. Seein' on how your HDD is one of the biggest bottlenecks as far as speed goes in your entire system, Id get the fastest one possible. Some of those big and inexpensive SATA drives are slow as hell and barely beat an IDE drive as far as performance goes. The worst thing you can do is to build a kickass system, only to load your OS on a sh*tty/slow HDD.

I also prefer not to have any usefull data (music/applications/video/porn) on the same drive as my OS. This way if I have to reinstall, I dont lose anything important. Taking this into consideration: I, personally, don't see a point in getting a massive drive for your main drive. If you were planning on using RAID for your OS, Id think again cuz two slow drives in RAID configuration doesn't do anytning for seek time. If anything, makes it worse.

As far as main boards go: I second with Snipr and go with MSI. I have owned two 939 mobos from them with NO complaints at all.

Thats my 2 cents, hoped it helped in the least bit.

[Sniprwulf]

i added 32 instead of 23. i guess im dislexic a bit. but yeah, msi makes some sick things for their mobos. take mine for example, came witha rear slot (something like a pci slot) that hooks up to the motherboard w/4led lights and they light up in 24 different arrangments for trouble shooting, made setting up my system so much easier.

[ShLoNkY]

i added 32 instead of 23. i guess im dislexic a bit. but yeah, msi makes some sick things for their mobos. take mine for example, came witha rear slot (something like a pci slot) that hooks up to the motherboard w/4led lights and they light up in 24 different arrangments for trouble shooting, made setting up my system so much easier.

Mines got that too but have yet to use it. The best little feature of mine that i love is that it actually has a button to reset CMOS. No more fiddling around like a jackass trying to put a jumper on some tiny pins when you OC too much and have to reset it.

[wyte mafia]

i would not get two 6800's get one 7800gtx, then save up for a nother. if you want to spend the money.

two 6800's might get a few more frames than my one 7800 gt!
otherwise its nice. i have 2 gigs of ram in 2 sticks. its nice. nice mobo. did you see what it would cost through www.newegg.com???
they are pretty fair.

Edited by wyte mafia, 28 February 2006 - 09:51 PM.

[Sniprwulf]

nice mobo. did you see what it would cost through www.newegg.com???

doubt its the same one. theres one for 80bucks too, but i have the more expensive mobo and i thought it was worthit. zzf usually has same prices as newegg but with free 2nd day shipping.

[ShLoNkY]

i would not get two 6800's get one 7800gtx, then save up for a nother. if you want to spend the money.

two 6800's might get a few more frames than my one 7800 gt!

CSS doesnt even take advantage of multiple GPUs very well. One 7800gt would be much faster than 2 6800s in almost every game out there......

[Aziz]

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ $334
MSI SLI K8N Motherboard $104
EVGA 7800 GT PCI-E $270
ANTEC 500watt PSU $67
2gb pc3200 OCZ gamer memory $164
3x250GB SATA-II Wd hd $303
2xNEC DVD-R, RW drive 16x $90
Case of your choice around $100
Windows XP Home Edition $90

GRAND TOTAL $1522 Shipped to your door
all prices courtesy of zipzoomfly.com

extra 19" 2ms!!! gamer LCD, $370
bringing your total to $1892

if you wanna upgrade from the 4000+ to the x2 4200+, its an extra $23 bringit it to $1924

tell me whatchu think aziz

That looks sweet. Is is it better than what i picked out though?

[Sniprwulf]

That looks sweet. Is is it better than what i picked out though?

Its got a gig more ram, over 500gb more space (altho ill agree w/shlonk, raptors are awesome for the OS and should add one instead of maybe one of those 250gb hd's but if you're serious ill talk to you about it), bigger powersupply, a sick lcd 19inch gaming monitor(best one out there) which ur package didnt have any at all, all for cheaper?

methinks so

[Aziz]

Get on vent.

[Aziz]

Sweet.
Im probably not gonna get a monitor, since i have my old 19" one, which brings me to a total of 1390$ plus shipping for a bad-ass gaming machine.

Thanks, man.... now to the part of making the money to purchase it

AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ - $357
MSI SLI K8N Motherboard - $104
EVGA 7800 GT PCI-E - $270
ANTEC 500watt PSU - $67
2gb pc3200 OCZ gamer memory - $164
250GB SATA-II Wd hd - $104
Western Digital Raptor HDD - $154
2xNEC DVD-R, RW drive 16x - $90
Thermaltake Soprano VB1000SWS Silver Computer Case With Side Panel Window $80 (Snipr's & Sob's case )

Oh, i just have to add a good sound card to that setup, and ill be all set.
I cant f*cking wait.
Thanks a lot guys

Im still amazed how much money you save up by putting together the computer yourself... im gonna save around $600 by building it myself... daiimn.

Edited by Aziz, 01 March 2006 - 02:44 AM.

[DocSeuss]

may i suggest looking at this place to buy a computer, i know a couple people that have bought from them and have had very good luck.

http://www.abs.com/index.asp

dave

[Billy Pumper]

i don't feel like starting a new thread and its the same topic and i am not trying to hijack this thread but im adding some new hardware soon what do you guys think

ati 1600 pro
and hooking a vga 17in monitor up with a dvi/vga convertor cause im poor along with my crt think that would be ok