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SuperCell · Oct 10, 2006

Can anyone give me a ballpark figure on about how much money is typically required to put together a "nice" gaming computer, assuming you allready have a monitor and keyboard?

Thanks

Eagle156 · Oct 10, 2006

$1300-1500 for high end stuff while spending the money on places where it counts.

digital_exhaust · Oct 10, 2006

Somewhere between $1000 and $5000.

Seriously, give a budget, and I'm sure we can help you. "Nice" is relative.

SuperCell · Oct 10, 2006

My budget is rather small, maybe $1,000.

Believe it or not, I have been playing games like Doom 3 on a store-bought $500 celeron-powerd computer. So, I'm sure whatever $1,000 buys me will be better than what I have now. Plus, I want to build it myself.

Deleted member 143938 · Oct 10, 2006

What I have in my sig cost me less than 700 dollars off Newegg (had monitor, keyboard and mouse though)

firewolf · Oct 10, 2006

SuperCell · Oct 10, 2006

Nice. Thanks a lot.

firewolf · Oct 10, 2006

takes the fun out of choosing your own parts doesn't it? ;}

khanable · Oct 10, 2006

1k will get you a fine machine.

DeChache · Oct 11, 2006

Im pretty sure the one in my sig was right around 1000 built but I carried over a lot of parts and bought my stuff last year right when the A64 Venice came out. Right now I could get a 4200+ for less than my 3200+ last year at this time. But thats how the computer world works.

engiNURD · Oct 11, 2006

With a budget >= $1000, you should go with an Intel setup.

$180 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz
$150 - GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express
$215 - pqi TURBO 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-667 PQI25400-2GDB ($40MIR)
$135 - eVGA 256-P2-N615 Geforce 7600GT 256MB ($20MIR)
$95 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200RPM SATA3G
$50 - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver w/ Side Window
$50 - FSP Group AX450-PN 450W PSU
$30 - NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3550A
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$905 + tax and shipping (~$100) - $20MIR - $40MIR = $945

I'd stick with the above and upgrade the vidcard sometime around May'07. Here are some upgrade choices:
$945 + $50 for an E6400 = $995
$945 + $120 for a 7900GTO = $1065
$945 + $165 for a 7950GT = $1110
$945 + $170 for an E6400 AND 7900GTO = $1115
$955 + $215 for an E6400 AND 7950GT = $1160

$940 + $160 for an E6600 = $1105

I posted that for someone earlier this week. Go for the 7900GTO upgrade if you wanna game now. The guy I posted it for planned on upgrading to a DX10 card either later this year or early next year. If you wanna do the same, go ahead. DX10 cards are comin out within a couple months. The 450W PSU will be fine for an 8800GTX DX10 card... so even if you go for the 8800GTS, it will be sufficient.

I'm sure someone can post an alternative AM2 setup.

MrWizard6600 · Oct 11, 2006

yeah i really really recomend right now an X1900XT 256mb or a 7900GTO, those two cards are absolutly wicked sick for the price.

-- im getting an X1900XT 256MB

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