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Answer» Alright, I'm saving up monies for a new gaming computer, and i need some advice. I built one at newegg.com, and i built one at vigorgaming.com. at newegg, i set up an asus a8n32 sli deluxe socket 939 nforce spp 100 atx motherboard with an amd 64 fx-60 2.6ghz dual core processor, an xfx geforce 8800 gtx 768mb gddr3 video card, an asus cd drive and dvd drive, an 80 gig seagate sata hard drive, coolmax 850 watt atx power supply, 2 corsair 512mb pc3200 ram sticks, vigor monsoon 2 thermal electric cpu cooler, and 2 thermaltake 120 mm case fans. this adds up to about $2,460. Alright, I'm saving up monies for a new gaming computer, and i need some advice. I built one at newegg.com, and i built one at vigorgaming.com. at newegg, i set up an asus a8n32 sli deluxe socket 939 nforce spp 100 atx motherboard with an amd 64 fx-60 2.6ghz dual core processor, an xfx geforce 8800 gtx 768mb gddr3 video card, an asus cd drive and dvd drive, an 80 gig seagate sata hard drive, coolmax 850 watt atx power supply, 2 corsair 512mb pc3200 ram sticks, vigor monsoon 2 thermal electric cpu cooler, and 2 thermaltake 120 mm case fans. this adds up to about $2,460. Most of those arent that good.. Ill tell u what u should buy instead. CPU - E6600 2.4Ghz for 300$ Motherboard - nVidia nForce 690i SLI for 300$ Graphics card(s) - 8800 GTS/GTX for 500-600$ and then another one at a later time. PSU - 700-850w NAME brand PSU for around 100$ RAM - Kingston/Corsair PC2-5300 DDR2-667 2GB dual-channel (2x1GB) for 150$ HDD - Western Digital S.ATA 250GB 16MB cache for 75$ Optical Drives - 2x LG HL10 DVD Burner w/LightScribe for 80$ Coolers - 2x XXXmm fans (depending on case), VF900 for GPU, CNPS9700 for CPU. Simple Explanation: CPU: The Core 2 Duo series gives u far better gaming performance than the ATHLON 64-FX/64 X2, and are much less expensive. If u buy the E6300 for 150$ is already better than the Athlon FX-60 wich costs over 700$, and u can overclock even the E6300 to 3.0Ghz, making it as fast as the X6800, the most powerfull CPU on earth. The E6400 for 225$ can overclock to 3.2Ghz and the E6600 can overclock past 3.4Ghz and has 4MB of cache, while the E6400 and E6300 only have 2MB. This dosent make it a whole lot better, so if u want, just pick either of the lower Core 2 Duos. *With the Zalman CNPS9700 u can overclock the E6300 even to 3.0Ghz, wich is a 1140Mhz overclock! Not to mention every Mhz means more for the Core 2 Duo, because its a lot better. Motherboard: If u want SLi, there is nothing better than the just released nForce 690 SLi, and if u can afford an 8800 GTX this should be perfect for u. Graphics card: The 8800 GTS/GTX have near the same performance and are the best cards on earth. If u dont want something THAT expensive, u can also buy the 7900 GTO 512MB for 250$, wich is the best card on earth aside from the 8800s and for the lowest price EVER for a high-end card. PSU: For 8800 GTX SLi u will need at least 650w, but u might aswell buy 700w+ to be on the safe side, and for future upgrades. RAM: DDR2-667 will let u overclock ur CPU to the extent u wish. Not too little like the DDR2-533 or too much (leaving a problem) with the DDR2-800. If u want to know more abt this, say so because i can make this even more clear. HDD: Western Digital are the Kingston of HDDs. They give u the BEST HDD for a lower cost because ur not paying for the brand name aswell as the actuall hardware. 250GB is the best value today - the price of every GB is the lowest there is. After 250GB the price of each GB actually gets higher, so if u want more than 250GB, just get 2 HDDs. Getting less than 160GB today isnt a good idea, because the price of every GB is very high and u save only 20$ on 90GB wich u will not be able to do without very soon. Optical Drives: Today u should only buy DVD drives, because they can read/burn CDs aswell. DVD Burners have COME a very long way and they all have every FEATURE possible (dual layer etc.) and cost very little. LightScribe is a technology that lets u use the Burner's laser to print on the other side of the disk and is very cool and usefull and dosent cost extra. Buy 2 of these because its always good to have 2 Optical Drives, for Copying and such. Cooler: ACCORDING to ur case, buy the most expensive case fans possible (most expensive is like 5$ and u need this, because u want it to be as quite as possible). For the CPU there are many cooler, but the Zalman CNPS9700 is currently the best AIR cooling possible, as it was just recently released. If u want better cooling, such as watercooling there arent many types but they are far most expensive for little extra gain. The Zalman (best company for coolers) VF900 is the best GPU cooler there is. It fits all current cards, and probably the 8800 series aswell. Ive just recently helped someone build a PC similar to this. If u have any furthur questions, reply here or send me a messege on MSN Messenger. Chris |
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