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.
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?
$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.
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
Depends on the case. No point putting a high-end card in a crappy case with no ventilation or it will overheat.
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
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
