I've spent the past few years of my gaming life on a Dell-Inspiron 1501, as you can imagine, this is not exactly an ideal machine. In fact, it's downright horrifying. Now, I am on the hunt for advice on just exactly what I should put into my new machine, my price range is 1200$-1500$, and I would like to build this custom style. I would ideally be buying my parts from the following site, Newegg.com
Is there any chance that you all could reccomend a system for me, link me one of your builds, or just refer me to parts you've had wonderful experience with. That's not all that I need, however.
I also need information on what all I do need to build a complete and running machine, could you give me a comprehensive list of components? Thank you very much - Zach.Building a computer, need advice. (I'm a Novice.)?
You could try looking at
www.DigitalStormOnline.com
for some ideas. Study the components they use and pick the ones that meet your spec and price point.
Good luck. I'm green with envy.
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*Building a computer, need advice. (I'm a Novice.)?
I can save you a bunch of time, and money, go to http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/
Find one you like, configure it, as you select or change things the price changes too. You can't beat most of this stuff on price, and it has a 3 yr warranty.
You should be looking at a i7 with 6gb of triple channel memory and an Asus motherboard.
It comes assembled, ready to play for less than you can buy the parts most the time.
Make sure you go with Vista Home Premium 64 bit operating system so that it will recognize all that memory.
For 1200 to 1300 you can put together a top pf the line i7 computer with a Radeon 4870 or 4890 video card or Nvidia if you wish. You will be ';THE MAN'; !
If you still want to build after checking this out, I will give you a list.
Have fun! Below is what I am getting, not sure if I should go with 4870 card or 4890 for 45 to 50 bucks more. I made a mistake below ....I have down 2 Hard drives, and I only wanted 1 (500gb) Hard drive (more reliable), so you can deduct about another 50 or more bucks off the price at the bottom, or it will pretty much pay for shipping.
Product Name:Gamer Xtreme XT (NO MONITOR)
*BASE_PRICE: [+1149]
CAS: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower Case
CASUPGRADE: NONE
CS_FAN: Default case fans
POWERSUPPLY: 800 Watts Power Supplies (CyberPowerPC XF800S Performance ATX 2.0 Power - Quad SLI Ready)
CPU: Intel锟?Core锟?i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
FAN: Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System (Extreme Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P6T SE Intel X58 Chipset CrossFireX Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA,GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394a,%26amp;7.1Audio [+11]
MEMORY: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
FREEBIE_RM: None
VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCI-E 16X 1GB DDR5 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by ATI)
VIDEO2: None
VIDEO3: None
MULTIVIEW: Non-SLI/Non-CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
MONITOR: NONE
MONITOR2: NONE
HDD: Single Hard Drive (1TB (1TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
HDD2: 500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive [+57]
USBHD: NONE
CD: (Special Price) LG 20X DVD锟絉/锟絉W + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
CD2: 16X DVD ROM (BLACK COLOR)
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
SPEAKERS: None
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
MODEM: NONE
KEYBOARD: XtremeGear (Black Color) USB Keyboard
MOUSE: XtremeGear Optical USB 3 Buttons Gaming Mouse
TEMP: THERMAL TEMPERATURE LCD DISPLAY WITH 3X FAN CONTROLLER [+12] (BLACK COLOR)
WNC: NONE
FLASHMEDIA: None
VIDEOCAMERA: NONE
PRINTER: None
PRINTER_CABLE: None
IEEE_CARD: NONE
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
FLOPPY: NONE
OS: Microsoft锟?Windows Vista锟?Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 (64-bit Edition)
OS_UPGRADE: None
FREEBIE_OS: FREE! (Microsoft锟?Flight Simulator X Deluxe) Game
TVRC: None
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
_PRICE: (+1229)
Hi there,
I have to agree with you on the Dells - I can't stand them anymore. Don't even get me started on the poor technical support line.
Anyways, for 1200 to 1500 dollars you can make a very powerful computer. Any computer over 1300 dollars, I would easily recommend an i7 based system - it's quite affordable these days at only 270 dollars and gives quite a bit of bang for the buck.
There's quite a bit you need to learn (don't worry, it's a lot of information, but it's not complicated at all).
I actually have a pretty comprehensive guide to picking every computer part on my website - it's for people just like you!
some much to recommend, a case with adequate cooling, a descent PSU, a motherboard with more than one PCI-E slot in case you want to run multiple screens, and you can max out with the fastest ram that has heatsinks, a CPU that you can overclock ,not that i approve of overclocking, unless you know what your doing.Cooling can be chassis fans, water or mineral oil cooled, depends on you budget, if it is all to much suggest you buy or get someone to build it for you, software is another issue, games like directx 10 which is in alpha for XP so if you get directx 10 games you have to run Vista
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