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Need Help With Gaming Desktop
Judasgoat98
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I'm thinking about buying a gaming desktop instead of a laptop. I will have about 2000$ to spend on this, including a monitor. I'm basically only looking for 500 gb hard drive, 4 gb RAM and something more then 2.8 GHz processor. Please give all the suggestions you can, and try to include a monitor, around 20 inches or more. Thank you.
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Well are you buying from newegg or custom builder? Newegg will be much much cheaper. SLI or Crossfire or none? SLI. The new 700s boards blow chunks I wouldn't get any of them. I currently have one its video corruption hell. Intel x38, x48, p45/Ati is much better. Also ati cards still have video overlay on second monitor nvidia stripped this from all their cards.
Seagate drive with 32mb cache they are as fast as raptors.
CPU get a E8400 E8500 wolfdale
Monitor get an LG from best buy I don't think newegg has the 10,000:1 contrast ratio models yet last I looked.
System, Monitor... may need a keyboard and mouse too... but I suggest you built your own as that way you get exactly what you want.
Antec P182: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129025
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128336
Q9550: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041
memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267
HD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136
Vid: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102747
Plus whatever DVD, OS, etc you want
Well I've been looking around, and I'm having trouble trying to figure out which Video card to go with. I'm kind of debating between a ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCI-E 16X 512MB DDR5 or NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB 16X PCI Express. So which performs better dual? Or should I just spend a little extra cash and upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 896MB 16X PCI Express?
The GTX 260 is not an upgrade from a 4870 or 9800GX2, it is inferior to both cards.
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Desktop - AMD 8450 Tri Core, 3 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, ATI HD 3200 Graphics, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) - Intel P8400, 2 GIGs of RAM, Intel X4500, Windows XP Professional
The 4870 is the way to go.
i got an old board but it works.
AMD Opteron 170 socket 939 Dual core
ASUS A8N32-SLI deluxe mobo, the good thing about the socke 939 opteron is its easily overclockable, and cheap. If you have high quality ram, example: Corsair XMS, and a good flow of air. You can easily overclock that processor to 3000MHz
my build was a little over $2,000 and that was a couple years ago. Best of luck
oh hey I got that case. Did your stock fans die out on you relatively fast?
The GA-X48-DS4 is the board I went with, it performs really nicely and has nice and simple overclocking controls. I'd go OCZ Platnium DDR2 1066 Ram though, and a HD4870 as well.
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The GTX 260 is not an upgrade from a 4870 or 9800GX2, it is inferior to both cards.
Well then why does it cost more for it? -_- I'm not the greatest when it comes to video cards.
get an nvidia imo. ATI has bad driver support, so i hear.
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ATI's driver support is just fine. ATI cards have never been "as good" as Nvidia cards but they are also half the price for a 20% loss in performance at the most.
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ATI's driver support is just fine. ATI cards have never been "as good" as Nvidia cards but they are also half the price for a 20% loss in performance at the most.
from what i can see, i can buy a cheaper nvidia card, that also out performs the 4850.
EDIT: well actually, the 4850 has more stream processors, but even still its core clock is slower then the 9600s
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Favorite MMOs: WoW, SWG Pre-cu, Lineage 2, UO, EQ, EVE online
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So I got more people saying go Nvidia then. They both cost the exact same amount on the site I'm thinking about buying my desktop from, I just needed to know which is better.
Also while I'm at this, for processors should I go AMD or Intel?
Also keep in mind most nvidia reviews and cards are preoverclocked. AMD sucks now unless you want a budget pc the intel wolfdale is the fastest cpu on the market atm.
Dang with that budget you can build a kick ass system. Go with a x38 or x48 motherboard, i like Gigabyte, DDR2 1066, E8400 Intel C2D cpu, Get 2 4870s in crossfire, a 500 gb hard drive or 2. 24" monitor. Overclock that 8400 to 4 ghz and have a blast. Oops need a nice cooler for cpu at that speed i use a Swiftech 220 water cooler. Logitech 540 speakers, G5 mouse and G15 keyboard. I love my crossfire system coming from Nvidia.
Intel have faster procs
That'd be in my budget if I built my own.
Imo, go AMD and save yourself some cash. You don't need the best of the best to play what's out on the market right now.
But yeah, with a $2000 budget, you could definitely build a kick-ass system.
Alright as for processors, would it be better if I got an Intel Quad with say 2.5 GHz or an Intel Duo with 3.0 GHz?
And be honest with this question, if someone never put together a PC before, would you say they would have trouble or could figure out? And I mean be honest with this question.
Intel have faster procs
AMD multi task better. Bascily go with the spider setup imo. It gets a performace boost with the right mobo a ati card and a phenom.
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AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD
http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ShoppingCart.aspx?Depa=0&Submit=view&Name=My-Shopping-Cart
Thinking about building that, any problems?
When I look at it it shows my shopping cart... you need to put it in a wish list
Read theis: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2275343,00.asp
Plus theres some videos on this site too.
Alright, I know the first thing everyone is going to say is, "OMG DELLS SUCK MAKE YOUR OWN." Well to be honest I doubt my capabilities to put a computer together without fucking it up, so can someone tell me if this is good? It has all the original specifications I was looking for, and it was only 1519$. I can always upgrade later, as it is not like putting together a whole computer. So, anything wrong with that, other then it's a Dell?
ATI's driver support is just fine. ATI cards have never been "as good" as Nvidia cards but they are also half the price for a 20% loss in performance at the most.
from what i can see, i can buy a cheaper nvidia card, that also out performs the 4850.
EDIT: well actually, the 4850 has more stream processors, but even still its core clock is slower then the 9600s
Core clock means little when comparing different archetectures.
The 4850 murders the 9600s and even beats the 9800GTX in most cases.
To the OP, grab a 4870 in my opinion.
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Desktop - AMD 8450 Tri Core, 3 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM, ATI HD 3200 Graphics, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) - Intel P8400, 2 GIGs of RAM, Intel X4500, Windows XP Professional
Well that's the the only dual ATI card they offered. I could have spent 100$ more for a Dual Nvidia 9800 GT but I heard the 3870 was better. Of course correct me if I'm wrong.
Would it be a huge mistake to not upgrade to a 4870? Or do you think I'll be fine for a little while?