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Suggestions for mid-range gaming PC?

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coldfusion

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My cousin just got into some serious gaming (much to his parents' chagrin, I showed him the wonders of Call of Duty and Halo... hehe). He's being crippled by his computer which packs a whopping 1.5 GHz P4A and a GeForce 4 MX (yeah, I know...).

So, the kid wants a new computer, but he's got little to no knowledge about hardware, so I'm doing the purchasing and helping him build it. I've got a little bit of a conundrum here, in that, he is financing at least part (probably half, unless I can get on his folks about it). So I want something mid-range for him, but I also (more importantly) want it to be forwards-compatible (i.e. next-gen sockets, etc.).

My choices for now are a 486-pin P4C (probably 2.6 or 2.8), as the 775's are still WAY to expensive. I was thinking about an Athlon 64 system, but again, the cheapest one is about $400 if I go for the 939-pin setup, which I'd like.

Any suggestions about processors? What about video cards?

thanks a bunch,
cold
 
i'm going back on the second page to answer this question. unless u go 939 for amd its not going to be future proof. just get a simple barton, abit, 9600xt setup or something like that it shouldn't run u a lot at all, and itll hold him off until the finalized 64bit system comes out.
 
Yeah, cheap and futureproof don't usually go together. Why not build him a socket 754 Athlon64 2800+ system. They're relatively cheap and it would be futureproof in terms of being 64 bit. The 3000+ isn't much more expensive either.
 
754 is gonna be around for a while. At least until DDR totally goes out of style, then 939 is gone too. The difference is 754 makes for cheaper mobos, so there will be chips for it as long as DDR costs less than DDR2. Personally I think it'll last longer than 939. It'll just be for low end parts after a while. As long as DDR costs less than DDR2 754 will be around. 939 will likely go away first. It's for high end chips, and once DDR2 (or 3) gets sorta close in price to DDR the high end will move to the faster mem.
 
What about:

Athlon64 2800+ ($165)
1gb Geil Value PC3200 ($168)
Epox 8kda3j ($99)
MSI 9800 pro ($199)
80gb SATA drive ($75)
DVD-RW ($70)
Floppy ($12)
Sonata ($115)

That comes to about $923, and would be great for a non-overclocking gamer like him.
 
so_cal_forever said:
What about:

Athlon64 2800+ ($165)
1gb Geil Value PC3200 ($168)
Epox 8kda3j ($99)
MSI 9800 pro ($199)
80gb SATA drive ($75)
DVD-RW ($70)
Floppy ($12)
Sonata ($115)

That comes to about $923, and would be great for a non-overclocking gamer like him.
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sounds great :D
 
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