So after a few year hiatus of not computer gaming much (only on my laptop with an Nvidia 9500m not bad but cant play any new games) I decided to look into building a new gaming rig since my old "gaming" rig is a P4 3ghz with a gig of ram and an Nvidia 7900GS.
So I put some numbers together on how much the minimum would be to get me a decent gaming rig and it turned out to be around $900, what ever happened to building your own computer meant you could slash the price of the box store computers in half? So then I took my specs and went to Dell, HP, Gateway, etc and could build it for the same price except they included stuff that I was skimping on like optical drive, PSU, case, keyboard, etc.
Then I remembered Dell Outlet and here is my theory. I can get my specs or better (its a give and take type thing, more ram shittier graphics card, etc) for about $579 that leaves me enough room to pop in a top of the line video card and still be around $779. What do you guys think?
What I am looking at is a Dell Studio XPS 435:
Core i7 - 920
2 GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Radion HD 3450
Obviously I would replace the Radion with something like an Nvidia GTX 260 for around $200 and possibly add another 2 gig stick of RAM for around $50 to bring me to a total of 4 gigs (since its only a 1 DIMM stick).
What do you guys think?
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming will be the primary purpose
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I would like to keep it under $900
3) Where do you live?
Michigan
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Everything, but could canabalize my old rig that includes nice PSU, case, optical drive, HDD
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
See above
6) Will you be overclocking?
Not my first intention
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Its a Dell 24 inch I think the resolution is 1920x1200 or something like that
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Planning on using my xmas bonus so I have what 9 months?
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Firewire would be nice but the rest are just nice features I will not use
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
No, will need new OS
So I put some numbers together on how much the minimum would be to get me a decent gaming rig and it turned out to be around $900, what ever happened to building your own computer meant you could slash the price of the box store computers in half? So then I took my specs and went to Dell, HP, Gateway, etc and could build it for the same price except they included stuff that I was skimping on like optical drive, PSU, case, keyboard, etc.
Then I remembered Dell Outlet and here is my theory. I can get my specs or better (its a give and take type thing, more ram shittier graphics card, etc) for about $579 that leaves me enough room to pop in a top of the line video card and still be around $779. What do you guys think?
What I am looking at is a Dell Studio XPS 435:
Core i7 - 920
2 GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Radion HD 3450
Obviously I would replace the Radion with something like an Nvidia GTX 260 for around $200 and possibly add another 2 gig stick of RAM for around $50 to bring me to a total of 4 gigs (since its only a 1 DIMM stick).
What do you guys think?
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming will be the primary purpose
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I would like to keep it under $900
3) Where do you live?
Michigan
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Everything, but could canabalize my old rig that includes nice PSU, case, optical drive, HDD
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
See above
6) Will you be overclocking?
Not my first intention
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Its a Dell 24 inch I think the resolution is 1920x1200 or something like that
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Planning on using my xmas bonus so I have what 9 months?
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Firewire would be nice but the rest are just nice features I will not use
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
No, will need new OS
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