And all of that rides on a good power supply. Without a good power supply it will all crash, no matter how good or bad it is. 500 watts and around $100 will do. I bought a $50, 585 watt that crashes if I "turn up the volume."
shit, i added that all up and got a different number but I like your figures better (i got like around $1,569) Looks like some really good specs. I like the CPU choice and the case and RAM and esp the mobo. I bookmarked all the pages and with that price.....holy shit, and to thing i paid half of that for some crappy HP Paviliion with Athlong XP 3200GotMex? wrote:
Ok I got bored so I built a quick example system using NewEgg.com. Check it out:
- Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6811133132
- Powersupply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6817103941
- Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813131030
- Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819115004
- Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820227124
- Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6814195019
- Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6822148142
Total comes out to: 7 Item(s) ($1,157.93). As you can see, this still leaves you room to upgrade some parts. Maybe add an extra hard-drive, better video card, 4Gb of ram , faster Core 2 duo.
10 Things Ive learned while building computers.
1) Dont skimp on 4 things, Processor, Motherboard, RAM, and Power supply.
2) A good Hard Drive is nice, although the performance gain youll see from a sata 3.0 might be noticable but not great.
3) Find a case thats easy to work in cost really isnt a factor although most of the nicer cases will cost you a decent amount of cash.
4) Always buy a motherboard the you can upgrade on. later on you will come to appreciate upgrades.
5) Buy a good quality Video card from a respected well known company. (ie. BFG Tech) Not just because they have great products but the coustomer service too.
6) make sure you have enough cooling power if you plan on overclocking, and know the proper operating temps for your processor. three of my friends have burned up CPUs because they turn off or crank up the temp control.
7) No matter how new something you build is. in the 1 to 4 hours it takes to build it. Its already obsolete.
8) Flashy Lights and multiple LEDs that light up a room are great but after a while they can get annoying.
9) Find Quiet fans to put in your case. you would be surprised at how loud some can be.
10) Reguardless of whatever you build make sure to use arctic silver thermal compound.
1) Dont skimp on 4 things, Processor, Motherboard, RAM, and Power supply.
2) A good Hard Drive is nice, although the performance gain youll see from a sata 3.0 might be noticable but not great.
3) Find a case thats easy to work in cost really isnt a factor although most of the nicer cases will cost you a decent amount of cash.
4) Always buy a motherboard the you can upgrade on. later on you will come to appreciate upgrades.
5) Buy a good quality Video card from a respected well known company. (ie. BFG Tech) Not just because they have great products but the coustomer service too.
6) make sure you have enough cooling power if you plan on overclocking, and know the proper operating temps for your processor. three of my friends have burned up CPUs because they turn off or crank up the temp control.
7) No matter how new something you build is. in the 1 to 4 hours it takes to build it. Its already obsolete.
8) Flashy Lights and multiple LEDs that light up a room are great but after a while they can get annoying.
9) Find Quiet fans to put in your case. you would be surprised at how loud some can be.
10) Reguardless of whatever you build make sure to use arctic silver thermal compound.
Commodore 64, if not Tandy is a fine machine.
http://extremingly-leet-computers.com
Last edited by Kmarion (2006-08-20 03:36:25)
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You want:
Intel Conroe C2D E6600 $370
ASUS P5W DH $270
OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC5400 $190
EVGA nVidia 7600 256Mb $160
That comes to $990 off Newegg.
Rest of the stuff, doesn't matter so much. But that will pwn.
Intel Conroe C2D E6600 $370
ASUS P5W DH $270
OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC5400 $190
EVGA nVidia 7600 256Mb $160
That comes to $990 off Newegg.
Rest of the stuff, doesn't matter so much. But that will pwn.
Last edited by ghettoperson (2006-08-20 03:39:32)
www.ibuypower.com is great for very low prices on custom build computers. A big question you should ask is how much to invest in the monitor (which you will order from newegg). I recommend putting about $300 of your budget towards a nice LCD.
Whatever you do: do not buy a laptop, a dell, a compaq, a gateway, or any of that crap. Either do all the homework and buy the parts separately from a place like newegg to put together at home, or find a small local or internet retailer that hooks up well thought out computers. The big companies mess things up on a very large scale all the time.
Whatever you do: do not buy a laptop, a dell, a compaq, a gateway, or any of that crap. Either do all the homework and buy the parts separately from a place like newegg to put together at home, or find a small local or internet retailer that hooks up well thought out computers. The big companies mess things up on a very large scale all the time.
Last edited by Marinejuana (2006-08-20 03:49:00)
Your already starting out bad with a pentium processor.
By this he means ur Core Duo will kick ass. Women will wan't you and men will wan't to be you.RyansRangers wrote:
Your already starting out bad with a pentium processor.
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Lol yea I think it's a typo... he meant bad as in "bad ass"Kmarion wrote:
By this he means ur Core Duo will kick ass. Women will wan't you and men will wan't to be you.RyansRangers wrote:
Your already starting out bad with a pentium processor.
Normally I would agree but I just read an article from Anandtech that poses the argument that the savings between self-built and pre-built is small right now with Conroe systems becuase it is so new that individual Conroe CPU's and mobos are fetching a premium:Viper007Bond wrote:
I'm sorry, but ignore this guy. Going prebuilt is a very bad idea for so many reasons.ecko3389 wrote:
go to dell get the new xps and upgrade almost as much as you can graphics card processor ram what ever thats what i did and my pc is awsome
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdo … 18&p=2
Well, pre-builts usually go for cheap parts where they can (larger profit) and many large ones even use custom parts. For example, I couldn't replace the mobo or PSU in my old Dell when I wanted to upgrade and as a result, had to build a whole new PC.
If you want to go with a prebuilt where you can specify exact parts you would go with someone like Cyberpowerpc.com and not Dell.