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Building a PC

My current machine just wont cut it any more, im looking to build something for about $1000, anyone got any tips?

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1000 bucks no prob. What's your current system?

(and what are you looking for in a comp)

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Last edited by Tool, April 10th, 2007 09:06 AM (Edited 1 times)

What do you plan on doing with the new system. Specifically, why doesn't your current system cut it anymore?

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My current setup which was built alittle over 2 years ago, has 767 mb of ram, a 1.46 GHz AMD Athlon XP Pro 1900+, a GeForce 3 Ti 200 with 128 mb ram and 335 gigs of hd space.

I'm thinking a new computer is in order, ill probably put this one down stairs for the rest of the family to use, and for farm related activities.

The new system will be used for WoW, CS, Video Encoding/Decoding, some other CPU intensive stuff...

Maybe 2 gigs of ram, 200+ gigs HD Space, a good video card...

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COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver
ENERMAX Liberty ELT500AWT ATX12V 500W Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5000YS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
PNY VCG88GTS32XPB GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) MSI P6N SLI-FI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 Processor

$967.94
Cliffnotes:
Intel Core2Duo 1.8Ghz Dual Core
2GB of DDR2
8800GTS 320MB
500GB SATA HDD
500W PSU
Midi Tower Case.

from newegg. if you wanna save alittle cash, cut back on the hdd, and wait for nvidias 8600 to release nextweekish.. and you'll save another 150ish.

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Last edited by angelessme, April 10th, 2007 11:59 AM (Edited 1 times)

Those specs look good. I'd lose some HD space, and spend the cash on a E6400. the 2.13Ghz cpu. It overclocks much better! lol. my E6400 is running at 2.98Ghz...Oh so sweet.

or get better ram ... now that i think about it. With a dual core it's all about having decent ram. It made such a difference over my old generic stuff.

Last edited by ZeroCulture, April 11th, 2007 08:36 AM (Edited 2 times)

E4300s can hit 3.2Ghz on 3rdparty air coolers easily, so dont waste your money on the higher end chips.

As for memory, if you're a hardcore gamer, you might want to invest in some 800mhz ram, to get abit more out of the processor, but frankly, you wont have any problems with the 667mhz at all. However.. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON LOW LATENCY DDR2, alot of benchmarks and testing have shown that super low latency (very expensive ddr2) yeilds a gain in performance thats so low that you may aswell just have smoked the money.

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angelessme, antagonising neverside members, staff and administration since 2001.

I dont know too much about overclocking but wouldn't clocking the chip you suggested to 3.2 GHz be a bit much? I don't want it to burn out or anything.

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Lies

Theres absolutely no reason to overclock at all if you're not a hardcore gamer or a benchmarking enthusiast, so disregard it.

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Currently I just play WoW and CS, but I do intend to do alot of gaming, Id like to be able to play newer games well too.

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