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I dont want an Alien Ware really, I just dont have the know how to pick out a computer part by part.

"Alienware® Respawn Recovery Kit", does this stop spawncamping?

get the monitor, but look elswhere for a build.  plenty of people here to hold your hand.

Here's a decent Falcon-NW rig:

FalconNW Talon -

    * Silverstone TJ04 Black Chassis
    * Silverstone 750Watt Modular Power Supply
    * Asus P5N32-SLI SE DLX - SLI Capable
    * Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz
    * Zalman CNPS7000LED ALCU (Intel)
    * Corsair 2GB TwinX DDR2 8500C5 W/EPP
    * nVidia GeForce 7950GT 512MB
    * WD Raptor 150GB 16MB Cache
    * Seagate 500GB 16MB Cache
    * Sony DRU820 Dual Layer DVD+-/RW
    * Sony 16X DVD-ROM
    * Integrated Audio
    * Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    * MS Keyboard/Logitech Mouse

$3575

Go onto their site and configure something similar. Choose the mouse/keyboard of your liking, and specify an X-Fi sound card if audio quality is important to you.

For a monitor, ViewSonic VX922 Black/Silver 19" 2ms DVI LCD Monitor 270 cd/m2 650:1 Contrast ($255) would do in a pinch, but I still recommend buying one of those from a local retail outlet, so you can ask to see it hooked up to check for dead pixels before you commit.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-10-16 03:57:28)

cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:

That's pretty damn expensive for it's config though. Yeah I would defitnantly go w/ core 2 duo, way better then AMD

Damn straight it is, but if people don't want to build their own...*sigh*

Try this place Its the place i send my friends if i dont have time to do a build. Never a problem yet.

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

Good luck and happy gameing

Hell Id wait for the E4300 in January from Intel. Its said to Overclock by 75% without extra heat and with no voltage increase. So your talking 1.8 to 2.6 or so for around $150, and it will crush ANYTHING on the market now and anything AMD will have out until mid 2008.

But thats just me, LOL, Byt then again, Intel is releasing the Quads with 16meg L2 on chip sooooooo But then again WTF do you need Quad cores for? Programs will take 10 years to catch up to take advantage of them. It takes longer to train programers than it does to come up with new Tech LOL.

Heres a better suggestion, If your willing to drop that kind of coin on a desktop system, Why the hell wouldnt you Buy a Lappy? They have them with all the same crap and you can upgrade vidio cards when you need to and take your computer with you when you want. Thats my plan if i ever have to replace this thing. Ill be damned if im gonna lugg this thing to a lan ever again.

Last edited by <[onex]>Headstone (2006-10-16 04:19:54)

<[onex]>Headstone wrote:

Hell Id wait for the E4300 in January from Intel. Its said to Overclock by 75% without extra heat and with no voltage increase. So your talking 1.8 to 2.6 or so for around $150, and it will crush ANYTHING on the market now and anything AMD will have out until mid 2008.

But thats just me, LOL, Byt then again, Intel is releasing the Quads with 16meg L2 on chip sooooooo But then again WTF do you need Quad cores for? Programs will take 10 years to catch up to take advantage of them. It takes longer to train programers than it does to come up with new Tech LOL.

Heres a better suggestion, If your willing to drop that kind of coin on a desktop system, Why the hell wouldnt you Buy a Lappy? They have them with all the same crap and you can upgrade vidio cards when you need to and take your computer with you when you want. Thats my plan if i ever have to replace this thing. Ill be damned if im gonna lugg this thing to a lan ever again.

Rhetoric is lost on the internet...

Here's an even better suggestion? How about we wait until 2010. And then 2012. And if we get that far, 2016...

But the reason I don't go lappy is because they overheat easily, are a pain to mess with, and it's hard for me to find an LCD that I truly like, let alone one attached to a computer. Therefore, I buy outdated laptops. *shrug* As for quad cores, how long will it be before some clever dev apps programming studio catches on.

Of course, you wouldn't reject one if it was dropped into your lap, now...

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-10-16 04:25:07)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:

I would personally just get DDR2 800 ram instead of that 1066mhz ram, that would save a lot of cash and invest that for an E6600

True, I suppose, but...THIS is a system...

CPU+Mainboard - $1320 - Core 2 Quad QX6700 & decent board (something with at least two PCI slots and one PCIe-x1 slot that won't be covered by any fatty video card potential) upon release
Memory - $840 - 2x G.SKILL 2GB (2x1GB) 240-Pin DDR2-1000 (PC2 8000) 4-4-4-5 Dual Channel Kit (4GB)
Video - $320 - XFX PVT71JYHE9 Geforce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP ExTreme Edition (holdover for G80 sweetness)
Physics - $250 - ASUS's upcoming 256MB PCIe PhysX card...what the hell. UT2007, you know.
NIC - $280 - Bigfoot Network's Killer NIC...man the Linux, ping's away, YO-HO!
Main Drive - $200 - Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Storage Solution - $1560 - 4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s (3TB)
Optical Drives - $60 - {SAMSUNG SH-183A 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 8X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache SATA LightScribe Technology}; {LG GSA-H10N Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE/ATAPI Super-Multi DVD Burner}
Audio - $220 - Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
Chassis - ~$200 - Anything with enough drive bays from Lian Li
Primary PSU - $160 - SilverStone Strider ST60F 600W Modular Power Supply - SLI Certified
VGA PSU - $50 - Thermaltake VGA-Dedicated Power Express 250w Power Supply
UPS - $300 - OPTI-UPS B PS1500B 1500VA 1050W True Sine Wave UPS w/ LCD Monitor - Retail

Total - $5760

ARR!

Ohhh. Nice. You could cut a lot of corners to bring that in a lot cheaper though. Scrap the fatality X-Fi for a start. If you're really going all out, where's your RAMdrive?

OP: Alienware's way overpriced. Falcon-NW offers better deals, but they still don't have the best prices. You could lower alot of specs on the Falcon to a more manageable system, of course...but nothing like a good ol' custom PC.

Bertster7 wrote:

Ohhh. Nice. You could cut a lot of corners to bring that in a lot cheaper though. Scrap the fatality X-Fi for a start. If you're really going all out, where's your the RAMdrive?

Or I could leave the X-Fi in because I'm a blithering CL fan and leave the RAMdrive out (you skipped over SCSI) because it's a pain in the ass. Never said I was buying the thing, but there's no internet law against holding your thumbs and fingers together in a frame and just picturing a pile of bright, shiny components like those splayed across a workstation, at no impact to your wallet.

<[onex]>Headstone wrote:

LAppys Screens are much better now. Plus the fact, you can hook anything you want to it for home use. But anyways If i had the coin and the chance again I would get one. Because i have two places i live, One winter one summer.

As for the Quad core deal, your right, i sort of hit on that subject, It will be until atleast 2010 until you see anything that will utilize the Quad cores. Its going to take Retraining of Programers, or completely mew programers. Leaving alot of peeps out of jobe unless they retrain.

sad part is, AMD wont be comeing out with ANY kind of procesor that will even try and keep up with The new Intel CPU's. They are going to release yet Another revamp of there 90nm cores next month. Then, there duel's and quads(in late 2008) will only have 4mbL2 and have 2mb added to the L3 LMAO. They wont even be close, specially whan the AMD's will fineally be there 65nm chipe while the Intels will be there 45nm chips already LOL. Ill buy a Core 2 Duo, but theres NO need for Quad cores for atleast 4-5 years yet.

BTW, a lappy with the new Intel chips run real cool if you get a good lappy. The vid cards run a bit warm, but remember lappy parts are ment to take the heat. They really are much better than you think in the heat department. Ive worked with quite a few for my Six pack friends who dont know how to do a reformat on there new laptops because they screwed them up LOL

@laptop parts: yeah, I suppose you're right, but I just haven't gotten over their overly-proprietary past. It would push the same buttons in my brain as going back to the early 90s' to buy a Compaq Presario. *shudders*

@programmer training: and who's to say I wouldn't be geeking out with equipment at my disposal? granted, I'm not a talented enough programmer to get anywhere, but maybe I could make it say 'Hello'

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Proof that I don't senselessly blow wads of cash:

Current PC (slapped together in Nov'04)

Athlon 3500+
Asus A8V Deluxe
2x Corsair TWINX CMX512-3200XL's DDR-400 2-2-2-5
BFG 6800 Ultra AGP 256MB (the crux of the bill, and it's lasted me to this day, flawlessly)
Raptor 74GB
WD 500GB SATA
Random external DVD drive.
Random internal CD drive, dangling outside the chassis.

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Heheh. That being said, I should come to the tech forum every now and then and just say "quad core," just to incite snort-chuckle rebuttals.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-10-16 05:48:11)

Ahhhhhhhh Shudders at the Picture LMAO.

PS I hate the idea of the Gimik of the socalled Quad core. Because thats all it is. Until theres really a use for it, Theres No need to even sell it.

You didnt say Compaq did you. For shame LMAO. If talking Lappys, Atleast lets talk about custom jobs LOL. I wouldnt Piss on a prefab Lappy. Let alone own one LOL.

Specs.

Mobo: ASrock SATA2 Duel 939(because i can run AM2 processor and A64 939
Processor: A64 3700+ 2.2@ 2.7 on air with no overvoltage
Ram: Kingston HyperX 2gb PC4000 Duel channel kit
Vidio: MSI X1800XL 512MB PCIexpress Stock And X800XL AGP For second display(board has AGP and PCIexpress)
PSU: Apevia 700 watt Modular Quad +12v Rail
HDD: WD  150gb SATA
Sound: Onboard(sound card died last month LOL)
Gigalan
First Display: Samsung 913T LCD
Second: Sony Trinitron 19" CRT
Case: XG Viper

Thats about it.

Last edited by <[onex]>Headstone (2006-10-16 06:21:49)

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