The Official PC building thread!

Yeah, but y do it half assed?
i learned that the hard way. lol

 

Because for me, doing it half assed gives me exactly the same result as doing it full assed. I'm never going to run SLi on it, so what's the issue? I won't need 8 S-ATA ports I don't think, and neither do I appear to need a huge heatpipe cooling system (the normal Asus chipset cooler seems to do the job well enough without the fan running!)

 

sorry if you took that as a flame... i was just saying.. what if he does decide to use the extra features.. all i am saying is that it is futureproofing his stuff...

 

BTW: sammorris, how is that X1900XT? much better than a 7900gt?
just asking.. was looking at egg and i can get it for 230.00 after rebate from 260.00... and with the extra doe i can start me conroe or get ddr2 for either i decide?? no what i mean?

 

Hey all i wanted to build a comp but im not really sure what parts to getor where to get them from.

as for purpose i just wanted a decent gaming machine. It cant be too expensive though. I wanna play games, but they dont have to run at the highest settings, average is fine. As for budget... uhh at this point hopefully less than $1000 but probably not huh?

 

yeah you can do it for a 1000

the AMD 3800x2 is going to be about 169.00 July 25th so theres a start for the CPU.

mobo Asus A8N32-SLI Premium.

ram CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB)3200

video card NVIDIA 7600GT

power supply Antec-TruePower550-Watt

www.newegg.com is the best place for parts

harddrive Westeren Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata

drives Lite-On or BenQ -1655

get a good case that cools well

theres a start

 

ooo thanks for the suggestions

hmm but i dont think i need a 150 gb harddrive lol maybe 100 that could drop the price a little right?
and does it matter how many sticks i use to make 2 GB of ram? i either have 2 256 or 2 512 that im not using right now i dont remember.

also when i googled the mobo (ddint look hard just skimmed) it seemed there were 2 versions a 16x and a 32x. two questions: 1) what does 16x and 32x mean? >_< 2) which one should i buy?

im trying to get it as cheap as possible but still have it perform well lol silly me

 

they make a 74 gig that about 140 bucks less expensive

the ram is important doing a new mobo would would want to go with good ram .what do you have? you will have four slots for the ram

 

im in the middle of doing homework right now im gonna have to post back later >_<

 

kk at a break point. i could only find one of the sticks (come to think of it i think i gave the otehr to a friend)

its says Bravo all over it and is 512 under the bravo it says ADP328TM-50and there a little sticker that says 512Mb,DDR,DIMM,P 64WPD PO121573 (cant tell if its a o or zero)

 

yeah i wouldnt use it go with the ram CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB)3200

a few others will be along soon to help also but we can def. get you a very nice system for around a 1000.00

 

couldnt hurt to use it tho right? like pop it in in addition to the 2 1 gb ones? >_>

dont like wastin things i have lol

actually 1000.00 is max lol id really like sumthin cheaper if possible

 

it needs to match so really you can't use it

 

hmm your post says it needs to match but it doesnt but then you say i can use it >_> im gonna assume that a typo lol and u meant cant

ok i guess maybe i can sell that RAM for money towards the comp lol

 

woops sorry its late

 

Hmm ive tried searching for the parts on googleand newegg.com, but i keep gettin results with multiple differnt types of the same thing. Could you be more specific as to which one i should get?

 

yeah i will get you some links today sometime its late and iam out soon

 

ok np i can wait lol more toying with the idea than willing to buy stuff at this point lol

i did find this at newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/S...egory=14&Action=search&ExpiredRebate=1&page=2

the first 1 on list. would this be worth it?

edit: o wait nvm its only 1 gb RAM thought it was 2 :/ the 3rd and 4th ones have 2 gb ram but the HDDs r too big >_<

 

lol meh, futureproof schmutureproof, nothing is future proof, just future resistant!

The X1900XT is very very good, I can't exactly compare it to a 7900GT because I haven't owned one and I haven't seen a reliable bench of the 7900GT in the games I currently play. When I get FEAR I can tell you.

Xevlys: newegg for your parts. aabbccdd is off to a good start, but for your purposes, I'd say A8N-SLi Premium or even Just A8N-SLi, unless you're a hardcore gamer. for $1000 you're not. You DO NOT want a 150GB raptor, they're insanely fast and expensive for what they are. Here's my suggested shopping list...

CPU (yes, its socket 939, but if AM2 becomes cheaper then get that, theres not much of a plus and 939 is better for now) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562

Mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131524
RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145486
HDD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148113
GPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130283
PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194003
Optical http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827136084
and http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827136090

As for a case, it's pretty much up to you!

 

wow thx for suggestions.

is tehre a smaller HDD i could get for cheaper cos 200 gb is a lot more than i need. 100 gb would prolly be fine
trying to minimize costs :/

and i think i have a PSU lemme go see if i can find it...

ok its not very good :/ lol
its a king win dual fan 350W you guys have suggested 500W so i guess ill get one of those