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Johnnyscans
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well, as we all know, xmas is technically around the corner, and with my birthday also being in december, i am planning on just asking the rents for money and doing a new pc build. i have built systems in the past, i know how to troubleshoot and whatnot, and i may consider overclocking. i want the system to be air cooled, and i do not want to go sli. my approx budget will be 12-1300 final system-minus monitor. i would call it a madrange to low end high end. what i am asking for is reccomendations for cpu/mobo/vid/ram/hdd/cooler, as i am pretty sure i am getting a lian-li case and either a enermex/antec/thermaltake psu. what i have been thinking to myself as of now is:
-athlon 64 3800+ x2- unless the price of the 4400 makes a decent drop, i think this is the cpu for me.
- pretty unsure about mobo, since i have been out of the research side for about 1.5 years, i do not know which one would suit the x2 best. ive heard good things about dfi, asus, and msi.
-vid- 7800gt//gtx, depends on price and sale, but im liking the gtx's benchmarks with AA
-ram-1 gig of the patriot 2-2-2-5, ive heard good things about it, and the reason for only getting 1 gig as of now is ram is something that you can easily buy at another time and just drop on in, if anyone has any other ram recs, plz let me know, but i want as good as timings as possible
-hdd, hopefully some 160 or 180 gig sata or something like that, down the road ill trou in a raptor and reinstall system on there.
-air coolor for cpu and vid- any recs, the thermalright xp-90 seems to be getting rave reviews.
so here is my brainstorm, any reccomendations would be more then helpful and appreciated. feel free to reccomend intel, ati, etc, etc. i jsut want to get as many recs and ideas as possible, as browsing other threads have been helpful, but peopls opinions are the best bet imo.
-athlon 64 3800+ x2- unless the price of the 4400 makes a decent drop, i think this is the cpu for me.
- pretty unsure about mobo, since i have been out of the research side for about 1.5 years, i do not know which one would suit the x2 best. ive heard good things about dfi, asus, and msi.
-vid- 7800gt//gtx, depends on price and sale, but im liking the gtx's benchmarks with AA
-ram-1 gig of the patriot 2-2-2-5, ive heard good things about it, and the reason for only getting 1 gig as of now is ram is something that you can easily buy at another time and just drop on in, if anyone has any other ram recs, plz let me know, but i want as good as timings as possible
-hdd, hopefully some 160 or 180 gig sata or something like that, down the road ill trou in a raptor and reinstall system on there.
-air coolor for cpu and vid- any recs, the thermalright xp-90 seems to be getting rave reviews.
so here is my brainstorm, any reccomendations would be more then helpful and appreciated. feel free to reccomend intel, ati, etc, etc. i jsut want to get as many recs and ideas as possible, as browsing other threads have been helpful, but peopls opinions are the best bet imo.