DarkSoldier
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I've been using a laptop primarily for the past 4 years or so (doing little to no PC gaming) and I'm ready to build a new desktop system but I have no clue what the current state of the cpu, chipset/motherboard, video card market is these days. I want to use this for gaming but I'd like to finish the whole system for maybe $800 or so I'm really interested in best value components, like where the performance vs. price curve peaks.
Basically I need:
cpu
motherboard
memory
video card
Integrated sound and network stuff is fine for now. AMD/Intel or ATI/nVidia doesn't matter really either.
So any suggestions?
Edit: I just found this on Google, from March: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1822641,00.asp
How relevant are all those suggestions, has much changed since then? I would probably forgo the Audigy and I don't need a keyboard or mouse but I would probably want to go for 2 GB of ram though.
Basically I need:
cpu
motherboard
memory
video card
Integrated sound and network stuff is fine for now. AMD/Intel or ATI/nVidia doesn't matter really either.
So any suggestions?
Edit: I just found this on Google, from March: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1822641,00.asp
How relevant are all those suggestions, has much changed since then? I would probably forgo the Audigy and I don't need a keyboard or mouse but I would probably want to go for 2 GB of ram though.