need a new gamingcomputer built

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allen5o4

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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
mostly gaming (fear 2, need for speed:shift, left 4 dead, world of warcraft, counter strike, burnout:paradise, COD: modern warfare 2) mostly all the games that demand a good gaming computer

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
about 500-650 including shipping. (newegg) (excluding monitor)

3) Where do you live?
new orleans, louisiana

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
everything

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
none

6) Will you be overclocking?
not sure how to do it, but ill try to learn.

7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
about 22 inch flat screen

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
well, im planning to buy it on black tuesday (should be the day after thanksgiving) because of the major discounts they have. im not sure if newegg have these discounts. if they dont, ill buy this asap.

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
not sure. can anyone help me with this?

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
yes

thanks guys for helping!
 
allen5o4 said:
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
well, im planning to buy it on black tuesday (should be the day after thanksgiving) because of the major discounts they have. im not sure if newegg have these discounts. if they dont, ill buy this asap.
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Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday. Black Friday is the day after that everyone has their sales on (Black Tuesday usually refers to the stock market crash of 1929). Cyber Monday is the following Monday when a lot of online retailers have their sales. The thing is, the vast majority of these sales are for specific items. So it's not going to be much help to you if someone here recommends, say a Core i7 920, if that item doesn't go on sale anywhere. Not to mention that most of these retailers don't list their sales until maybe a week before hand, so you won't really know if Newegg is going to have the parts you want on sale or not. Also, a lot can change in 3 months, especially around the holidays. The CPU, motherboard, video card, and RAM recommendations you get today are going to be very different from the recommendations that you'd get if you asked a month or two from now.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that it's useless to plan a system for 3 months from now, based on whether or not items are going to be on sale. You need to either plan a machine you're going to be building now, or wait until you're closer to being ready to buy the parts and build it.
 
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I concur with Itchyeyes 100%. So figure it out right now: Will you be building in 3 months or ASAP?
 
hmm.. well if theres a sale on black tuesday ill get it then cause its cheaper. but if theres not , then ill get it in about 2 weeks. would it be better to buy it now? or wait for the discounts?
 
allen5o4 said:
hmm.. well if theres a sale on black tuesday ill get it then cause its cheaper. but if theres not , then ill get it in about 2 weeks
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Ok you're missing the point: There will be sales on Black Tuesday. However, no one will know what parts will actually be on sale three months from now on Black Tuesday. So basically, get the parts in two weeks.

OH and I did say "please be specific" with question 4. Everything could litterally mean everything: Keyboard, mouse, monitor, case, CPU, hardware RAID controller, OS key, floppy drive, hot-swap bay, etc. So again PLEASE Be SPECIFIC!
 
well here is about the best you could do if you ordered today, fs = free shipping.

Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA $29.99 + fs
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower $59.99 + code for free shipping
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA $56.99 + fs
XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB $144.99 + fs
CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W $79.99 - $30 mir + fs
AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black $119.99 + fs
GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G + G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Combo deal $134.98
Total: $625.89 - $30 mir card and free shipping on almost everything.

OR

go full AM3 with these 2 substitutions,

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $79.99
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 + ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX $174.98

Total would be: $626.88 - $30 mir + fs on almost everything.
 
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thanks, ive decided i will buy my computer next week. any other suggestions before i take hossdaddy's?
 
hossdaddy said:
well here is about the best you could do if you ordered today, fs = free shipping.

Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA $29.99 + fs
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower $59.99 + code for free shipping
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA $56.99 + fs
XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB $144.99 + fs
CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W $79.99 - $30 mir + fs
AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black $119.99 + fs
GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G + G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Combo deal $134.98
Total: $625.89 - $30 mir card and free shipping on almost everything.

OR

go full AM3 with these 2 substitutions,

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $79.99
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz Socket AM3 + ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX $174.98

Total would be: $626.88 - $30 mir + fs on almost everything.
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i travel alot, is there a smaller case that is light and easy to transport? if not, thanks anyways.
 
You can explore the SFF forum for small portable computing needs (to me, a Scout is about as easy as the same parts in a cube, but I digress).

And with portability you might want to follow other people's builds more closely. For PCs just sitting by the desk there's more freedom to have everything fit and not be a problem for moving around.

Also, here is a case on which you can mount your flat-screen monitor. I'm sure this would fit in a carrying bag and you could carry the monitor in the other (or whatever is going on).
http://www.xoxide.com/chieftec-bravo-case-vesa.html
 
I'm not sure that case would fit his needs, as he's mostly gaming and will need a decent gpu-- I'm not sure there is much room for anything much beyond integrated graphics in there.
 
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