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How much would you pay for a really good gaming PC?
DoomClam
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(This question is just about the tower - don't include the monitor, keyboard, etc.)
Assuming it could handle any game (even upcoming ones) with all the graphics turned up, smooth movement at a decent widescreen resolution (like 1680 x 1050), 2GB of memory, 500GB hard drive - it could hold its own against Alienware, Falcon Northwest, or Voodoo PCs.
Don't worry about what they tend to cost right now:
How much would YOU be willing to pay for it?
Assuming it could handle any game (even upcoming ones) with all the graphics turned up, smooth movement at a decent widescreen resolution (like 1680 x 1050), 2GB of memory, 500GB hard drive - it could hold its own against Alienware, Falcon Northwest, or Voodoo PCs.
Don't worry about what they tend to cost right now:
How much would YOU be willing to pay for it?
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Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Not entirely sure what the exchange rate is these days, dollars are pretty cheap now but I spent about 1400 euro on mine some 2 months ago, I guess that equates to about 2000$.
Id bet though that if I would have spent them in the US I would have gotten more for them.
"No name" midi tower
Chieftec 620W PSU
Gigabyte 965P DS4 Mobo
Intel dual core 6400 2.13
4GB Corsair XMS 800mhz
320 and 400 GB Samsung drives
Leadtek 8800 GTS 320 MB
No DVD or soundcard, ripped that out of old computer.
What would that cost in the states?
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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$1,500. I don't like getting into the 2's for a computer.
Built this today, really cheap too :-
HIS ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) Overclocker to 3ghz (can overlclock a lot more)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Enermax Infiniti 650W
Antec NINE HUNDRED Gamers
250GB Western Digital 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
Microsoft Vista Premium 32-Bit OEM
Cost around £750 which is around $1,484.03 US prob cheaper if you shop around
The P5k Clocks like a maniac, and can take the DDR3 memory and is cheap around £100 - ($200), It will run any games gets about 11k 3D Mark 06.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
My last build (about 6 months ago) cost me around $2000US for :
It had some initial issues with the SLI and I still dont get the 4gb RAM because of Winblows XP blah diddy blah blah.... but Im happy with it. Does everything I want it to.
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Thats is indeed incredibly cheap.
Isnt the 2900 card like 400£ alone?
Great buy, and build.
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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Thats is indeed incredibly cheap.
Isnt the 2900 card like 400£ alone?
Great buy, and build.
Hehe not my PC, was for a customer mines alot better :P Believe it or not the 2900 is only £250.
There are trendy things that people waste entirely too much money on. SLI/crossfire and raid. Both of those things are money sinks and contradict the price/performance theme you should have when building a system. I can quote you many articles that state that raid 0 is an insignificant performance increase for the average desktop user. The one exeption is someone that encodes media 24/7. Raid 0 for desktop use is a waste of money. Just get one good drive that suits your needs.
Same can be said for SLI/Crossfire. Just get one good video card that suits your needs. If you plan your system while avoiding SLI/Crossfire, you can spend a lot less money. Less money on a single 16xPCIe slot motherboard, Less money on a powersupply, and obviously you only need one video card. Also, you will cause less power to be consumed thus creating less heat in your case.
So, a simple high end build that costs less than $1500 is:
965P or P35 non-sli/crossfire motherboard
any 8800 video card to suit your tastes
any core 2 duo to suit your tastes
Quality 450-600W Power supply (Here is a good place to go for quality PSUs Jonnyguru.com forums)
DDR2 Ram is dirt cheap right now.. you can go anywhere and get 2X1GB for under $100
The rest of the stuff that goes inside a case is all personal preference. As far as Cases go, I tend to like the ones with a 120mm fan in front and in the back. Moves lots of air without being loud.
If one day someone makes a high quality Virtual Reality MMOG I'd be happy to shell-out $15,000 - $20,000 for the VR rig and all the gear.
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But for 99% of people there is no need to consider sli/crossfire.
trust me there is stuff more insane and powerful going on with processors right now that dual core or quad core. early alpha version chips are already measearing 10x more powerfull than the pre-release version quad cores on bench marks.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
-NZXT Nemesis Elite Aluminium Case
-AMD Athlon™64 X2 4800+ Dual-Core CPU
-CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling Fan System Kit + 2 EXTRA CASE FANS (plus the 3 other 120mm fans)
-Socket AM2)GigaByte GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570-SLI Chipset DDR2/800 SATA RAID PCI-Express MBoard w/GbLAN,IEEE1394,USB2.0,&7.1Audio
-CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 675 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
-NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Powered by EVGA
-320gig HDD
-LiteOn LH-20A1H 20X Double Layer DVD+-RW Super Allwrite + Lightscribe Technology for optical drive
About $1500
hehe, i would accpet anything from alienware. their stuff pwns :P
You are wasting your money on water cooling. Why would you consider it? You obviously are not going to overclock. If you were going to overclock you would be getting a C2D processor.
The 8800 GTX is overkill for you since you have stated that you are buying a 1440X900 native resolution monitor.
Why would you pay 1/3 more money for someone to assemble the parts for you? But, it is your money.
P.S. I think you should spend your time reading a few articles online on how easy it is to assemble the parts for your own PC.
P.S I went with the 8800GTX for the future. I dont want to upgrade for a wile. And what would you suggest for cooling? Is the 3 120mm fans good enough?
Thanks for the advice though. Im putting in my own RAM and Video Card though.
Rebal88: Yes, you are not overclocking. Stock cooling is just fine.
Rebal88: Yes, you are not overclocking. Stock cooling is just fine.
agreed. you can easily build a system half the price with the same specs. (alienware is just dell for gamers =/)