Opinions and advice on new PC.(First Build)..

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by sephor, Sep 3, 2009.

  1. sephor

    sephor Member

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    Needing some help and opinions on a new PC. only got around 375-400$US to spend, only plan on playing BF2142, CS:S, Various F2P MMORPGs, and watching 720p videos and was wondering if this setup would be sufficient till i'm able to save up more money(Around a year or two after i find a new job...).

    Stuff ive picked out, but I'm not good at this stuff...o_O..so thought I'd post here since i lurk the site quite a bit, to make sure everything would work fine...-
    Motherboard+CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.242547

    Ram- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141240

    HDD- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136113

    Video Card- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102824

    Power Supply- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171028

    Old PC spec.....;_;...-
    Celeron D 2.9
    Radeon X1650
    768mb ram
     
  2. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    CPU: 8/10 - quite good value, quite fast
    Motherboard: 0/10 - It's ECS, so will last approximately six weeks before you have to get another
    Recommended replacements:
    Either
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376
    OR
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128380

    RAM: 1/10 - cheap brand, very low speed, poor performance, overpriced
    Recommended replacement:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184

    HDD: 4/10 - I own one of these drives and they're fine, but they're old, slow and outdated - worse, they're tiny!
    Recommended replacement: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218

    GPU: 10/10 - At least you got something right :p

    PSU: 4/10 - low quality, not very quiet, not really powerful enough for this system due to falsely labelled wattage
    Recommended replacement: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008
     
  3. sephor

    sephor Member

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    Ah, ok thanks. Thought there were some crappy stuffed i picked out..o_O.

     
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    "worse, they're tiny!"

    Why would you recomend a 640GB to fix such a problem? 640GB is still tiny!
     
  5. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Because I've already gone way over his budget as it is.
     

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