Build Me Game Pc 977$

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SquallRealm

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Ok guys, i am building my friend a pc. he saved up 977USD, he wants gaming pc, so concentrate on speed. he is never going to overclock. sli mobo possible? 7880? sound card?
guys please i dont have a lot of time all help is accepted.
 
a 7800 is very possible but you're gonna have to make price cuts somewhere on the system.
 
i am 877 so far

Dfi Lp Ut Sli
Amd 3500+
xfx 7800 GTX
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877$


ill get him cheap 1gb ram and a cheap case and i think thats all right?
 
dont get a DFI board for someone who wont overclock, or someone who doesnt know lots about troubleshooting. itll be hell to get stable and keep that way.

go with an asus board.
 
I would get:

DFI nF4 Ultra-D $135
3700+ San Diego $270
2x512MB Value RAM $80
X850 XT $300
OCZ 520W PowerSteam $125
 
lithium726 said:
dont get a DFI board for someone who wont overclock, or someone who doesnt know lots about troubleshooting. itll be hell to get stable and keep that way.

go with an asus board.
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Finally someone who sees that buying a DFI board for nothing more than overclocking is a waste. They have the O/C market captured but they still have a lot left for stability and quality control of lesser brands.

$977 tips:
Don't buy a sound card, really not worth it with most onboard solutions these days.

Don't buy expensive RAM, value series is just fine for no overclocking.
 
Antec Solution SLK3000-B Black Computer Case 49.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129152

FSP Group (Fortron Source) AX450-PN 450W (24 pins) Power Supply 49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache 939 Processor 190.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103535

EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard 95.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123236

Crucial 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
System Memory Model CT12864Z40B.16T 99.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146545

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B250S0 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache
Serial ATA150 Hard Drive 103.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144358

SONY Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Windows 98SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP 9.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16821103116

NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW
16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner 39.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152047

Leadtek TDH Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card 295.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122209

Total 930.97

usally i would go with 2 512 mb sticks of ram and go dual channel but i went with 1 gig stick so it will be easier for you to upgrade later on games are starting to require 2 gigs now

hope that helps
 
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice $146.00
Cheap, upgradable later.

DFI nF4-DAGF Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 $89.00
Good review, good company, more for stability than OCing, but has ability.

OCZ Performance Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) $115.94
Decent price for 1GB of name brand CAS 2.0 PC3200 RAM, plus is dual-channel set.

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A $37.99
Don't really need to say much here.

Antec Solution SLK3000-B Black (NO PSU) $49.00
Cost-savings mode.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ 160GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 $89.00
Good drive, plenty fast, lots of space.

XFX Geforce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card $379.00
You wanted a 7800, well you got a 7800.

Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 ATX12V 500W $70.00
24-pin power pushin machine.

Grand total of 975.93, plus shipping on newegg. If you used a pricwatch or anandtech price engine, etc to price things out, you could probably get it for about this price.

Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything. :D
 
SquallRealm said:
Ok guys, i am building my friend a pc. he saved up 977USD, he wants gaming pc, so concentrate on speed. he is never going to overclock. sli mobo possible? 7880? sound card?
guys please i dont have a lot of time all help is accepted.
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Do you need guts, or everything?
 
i think we'll wait 2 more weeks to get 1400 or somewhere around that.
He wont overclock and i wouldnt really want him to because if it burns, guess who has to pay the price. i can def make something work if i get the 1400 budget. and upgrade after.

a 7800GTX is a MUST, he wants gaming lets give him gaming.
i was thinking id get him 2x1gb, are there value packs that size?
also since no overclocking, would a 420W psu do?

i can skip getting hdd for now and use his old one.

I reallly appreciate you guys helping me out.

edit: yes i just want to see if its possible to get a high rig going and upgade it after the 2 weeks.
 
I don't think 420W will be sufficient enough for all that (especially if he wants to SLI the card in the future)

Best of luck to the both.

Clock Out.
 
If he's going to get a 7800GTX and won't overclock his CPU, he'll need to get at least a 3700+ San Diego to prevent bottlenecking the hell out of his video card.
 
HiJon89 said:
If he's going to get a 7800GTX and won't overclock his CPU, he'll need to get at least a 3700+ San Diego to prevent bottlenecking the hell out of his video card.
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i think a 3500+ would do as well. cache doenst matter THAT much, and until he gets up to insane reso's, he wont be stressing the card all that much.
 
HiJon89 said:
If he's going to get a 7800GTX and won't overclock his CPU, he'll need to get at least a 3700+ San Diego to prevent bottlenecking the hell out of his video card.
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Crank the resolution and take the CPU out of the equation.
 
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