Upgrade 2004

[AtiFanboy22]

Hey i was thinking of building a new pc sometime between this month and novemeber my budget is $1,200 anyone find anything cheaper or better?. i wanna play doom3 eq2 and hl2 maybe anything budget idont care anymore i just wanna get my old pc outta the way :-@

 

[homIcIde]

do you have a proposal that we are supposed to analyze? i got hat sense from what you said.

PS - delete hte extra thread
PPS - dont you think its somewhat ironic that your name is ati!!!!!!, yet you own an nvidia card and if you're speding 1200 will (and should) probably end up with a 6800GT?

 

[CleanSlate]

What will you be doing other than playing games?

If you won't be doing much else then an AMD 64 will probably be perfect for you. Do they make AMD 64 dualy mobo's? Never really thought to check. If they do get one with one cpu, and then later on you can get a second cpu if you wish. a gig of pc 3500 ram at 2-2-2 timings in dual channel, raided 120 gig HD's if you are into that kinda thing if not a 250 giger would do you, a WD 8 meg cache SATA drive. An ATi Radeon X800 XTPE or a 6800 GT would have you set for at least a year as nearly top of the middle-line.

On that budget going top of the line would be easy. Getting a water cooling setup would be feasible as well.

~Adam

 

[MeatWad]

I hope this helps

ASUS "K8V-X" VIA K8T800 $88

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ $164

eVGA nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Video Card $283

Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200C2PT $114

Hitachi 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive $64

Microsoft Windows XP HOME Edition With Service Pack 2 -OEM $94

EVERCASE Beige ATX MID-TOWER CASE, Model "E4252-91" -RETAIL $30

Thermaltake Silent PurePower, 420W ATX power supply.UL, CSA, TUV, CE Approved $38

LG Electronics Beige 52x32x52 CD-RW Drive, Model GCE-8526B Biege, Retail $29
Zonet V.92 56K PCI Data/Fax Modem, Model ZFM5620-CF - Retail $11

INTEL PRO 100 S Desktop Ethernet Adapter, Model PILA8460C3 - OEM

Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard -RETAIL $25

Logitech MX310 Optical Mouse USB/ PS/2 -RETAIL $25

BenQ V773 17" Black CRT Monitor -RETAIL $104

Samsung Black 1.44MB 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive, Model SFD321B/LBL1, OEM Drive Only $8.50

Logitech Z-3 Speakers w/ Subwoofer -RETAIL $56

Total: $1160.5