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I bought the GTX 9800+ Thanks everyone! I for it for 130 USD which is much cheaper than a new system I was contemplating.
Hey everyone.
I want to build a cheap system for my nephew so we can play games together. Also, he just graduated HS and had a birthday so it's for that too.
I just built my system (see sig), but I don't want to pay anywhere near that.
So what I'm asking is what would be the best high performance combination for the dollar? I was thinking a "decent" CPU, one that will run a better graphics card, rather than a more powerful CPU and then having to spend less on a video card.
Something like this:
CPU? Some thing powerful to perhaps run at optimum a 295, but just enough to get max performance out of the 295, so I can save money for other components.
295? I'd like something much cheaper than that, but don't want to go too low so he can't play games with me. He could go lower on resolution too because he doesn't have a big monitor, but probably around 1600 area, since if I save enough money, I can buy him a cheap 20" wide LCD.
I think I'll go with a 800 Kingwin PS, unless you have something else that would suffice for cheaper.
I'd like to keep it under 1000 w/o a monitor.
CPU-AMD or Intel
CASE
MB--on board sound
4-6 GB Ram
PS
Vid Card--ATI or nVid
HD
DVD
that's it.
Alternately, I have my old rig, which is:
AMD x64 2400
MN: ASUS A8N SLI Premium
BFG 7800 GTX
Antec 550
4GB RAM.
I tried a 200 series in that rig, but didn't get much improvement because the CPU wasn't strong enough to run the card. I tried a 260-216. My friend still has the same rig and he has an 8800GTX in his and says he still runs pretty much anything he wants to run. My question is what is the best card I can add to this old rig to get the maximum video performance before running out of CPU? It would be a lot cheaper on me.
Thanks a lot.
Hey everyone.
I want to build a cheap system for my nephew so we can play games together. Also, he just graduated HS and had a birthday so it's for that too.
I just built my system (see sig), but I don't want to pay anywhere near that.
So what I'm asking is what would be the best high performance combination for the dollar? I was thinking a "decent" CPU, one that will run a better graphics card, rather than a more powerful CPU and then having to spend less on a video card.
Something like this:
CPU? Some thing powerful to perhaps run at optimum a 295, but just enough to get max performance out of the 295, so I can save money for other components.
295? I'd like something much cheaper than that, but don't want to go too low so he can't play games with me. He could go lower on resolution too because he doesn't have a big monitor, but probably around 1600 area, since if I save enough money, I can buy him a cheap 20" wide LCD.
I think I'll go with a 800 Kingwin PS, unless you have something else that would suffice for cheaper.
I'd like to keep it under 1000 w/o a monitor.
CPU-AMD or Intel
CASE
MB--on board sound
4-6 GB Ram
PS
Vid Card--ATI or nVid
HD
DVD
that's it.
Alternately, I have my old rig, which is:
AMD x64 2400
MN: ASUS A8N SLI Premium
BFG 7800 GTX
Antec 550
4GB RAM.
I tried a 200 series in that rig, but didn't get much improvement because the CPU wasn't strong enough to run the card. I tried a 260-216. My friend still has the same rig and he has an 8800GTX in his and says he still runs pretty much anything he wants to run. My question is what is the best card I can add to this old rig to get the maximum video performance before running out of CPU? It would be a lot cheaper on me.
Thanks a lot.
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