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destro3979
Member Posts: 470
in Everquest II
i want to make the best computer for EQ2 that is under $1000
Could you give my a link of prtss i should put in it
im not making it i would just coustimize one on the internet.
thanks
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could i have some help here
Just get this.
Habit is not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. - Mark Twain
Athlon 64 3000+ or higer
1024MB DDR ram (400Mhz)
Asus or MSI motherboard. The Asus A8N SLI is good.
G-force 6800GT or Radeon X800XL or pro
Hard disk: Take a SATA, whit a good size. But you better choose the size yourself. I don't know what you need. 200Gb is enough for me. My prefered branch is Maxtor (and western digital)
It's very important you have 1024mb of ram or a bit more, don't go lower then 1024mb.
And take one of these graphics card. EQ2 really can use some of these
Then take a nice case and 480watt power supple or so. Whit these things you should do fine. You should be able to stay around 1000
ummm a little to fance for me
i was thinking of coustomizing a dell
then just go to a pc shop, ask for a gaming system and see you have at least that 1024mb of ram, a Athlon 3000+ or p4 3Ghz is allso good.(and everything higher offcource) and one of those graphics card! Those are the most important things. They will choose the right mothermorb, hard drive,....
Nooooo, do not get a dell. I dont think any dell for $1000, even with customizing, can be as of the quality you would get by just building the comp on your own.
Look at the set up Noubourne posted in that link. With help from him I am planning on building a system very similar to that, except on my own which will let me include a monitor for right at $1000.
i dont know crap about athons or amy of that fancy junk
i want to stay with a good old pentium a nvidia or ati videocard
and atleast 1gig memory
the rest i have no idea
You will save a lot of money going with the Althalon over the P4. The preformance is about equal until you get to the Athalon 4200 and above, then the AMD Chip will give you about a 30% boos, but will also cost you more than your 1k.
Something else to consider is that with the 4200 it's a dual core (sort of like hyperthreading for the P4)each core has a 512k cache (the website Noubourn has them listed as 1mb which is wrong) the 4400 has a dual core with 1MB cache for each core. This is a big deal. As an example the Centrino processor that they put in laptops spins about half as fast as a P4 mobile (around 1.8Ghz in the Centrino as opposed to 3.6 in the P4) but the Centrino has a cache that's twice as big. The Centrino only gets out preformed by about 3%. Have a large cache is huge.
I realize you probably understood little of what I just said, so let me just say: Go with an Athalon 3000+ and save yourself a lot of money and have no performance loss.
If you don't know what you're doing go with a manufactured system like Dell or the one posted here. If you do know what you're doing visit egghead or pricewatch and build out a system.
Personally I was going to build my own but Dell was having a huge discount sale and my corporate discount stacked on top of it so nicely that I actually couldn't build a system cheaper than I could buy one... was pretty awesome since with the Dell I have a 4 yr warrantee.
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I just configured a Dell 9100 For $1000.
It comes with a Gig of RAM, but it's DDR2 at 533Mhz, which is slower than a gig of DDR400. It comes with a P4 Prescott at 3.0Ghz, which is slower than an Athlon 64 3000+. It comes with an ATI X600 Hyper Memory (ZERO RAM - IT BORROWS FROM SYSTEM RAM) graphics card, which is about a million times slower than the 6600GT (128MB of GDDR3 RAM at 1000Mhz) in the box I posted. In fact, I don't even think you can PLAY EQ2 on the X600 HyperMemory card. EQ2 requires the video card to have RAM.
All that INCLUDES the 25% off Dell was going to give me for ordering online. Their promotions are a joke.
Buy the ABSPC machine I posted, or suffer the consequences. The only thing I wouldn't put in there myself is the K8T800 board. You don't get a choice though, and frankly it's probably way better than the garbage mobo Dell is giving you.
DO. NOT. BUY. DELL.
Consider yourself warned.
Habit is not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. - Mark Twain
Much like Destro, I want to build up my machine to play EQ2 nicely. I have a Radeon 9600XT 128MB Ram on hand, and I want to upgrade the mobo, cpu, ram, and hard drive. Here's what I'm thinking:
AMD 64 3000+
1GB DDR400 RAM (2x512)
Asus K8N w/ nForce3 250
SATA 150 80GB Western Digital HD
I'm open to suggestions here before I make the purchase at newegg. Like everyone else, I can't just buy the most expensive things. Will this get me by for a few years on EQ2, or other MMORPG games.
ALSO!!! Do I have to use WinXP pro 64 bit edition to take advantage of the CPU? or will the normal XP do. Thanks!
I recomend NOT getting the 64bit windows. It slows down all apps that aren't built for it.
I'd also stay away from a dual core processor right now (the one you have isn't a dual core so you're all right). EQ2 hasn't worked out the kinks for dual core yet and you have to set affinity everytime you start the game. It can get kind of tricky because you have to run eq2.exe then before the game has time to start set the affinity. If you miss it, you have to hope you can alt + tab out in time before it crashes. Great fun let me tell ya.
If it were me, I'd save a little more cash, use your old Hard Drive, and buy a s939 board and a 6600GT. The Hard Drive is probably like $50, so just save up another $100. s754 has no upgrade options really, and the 9600XT isn't worth keeping. Why gimp the upgradeability of your system for a $75 video card? It's just not worth it imo. Save up a little longer, and go for s939. Keep the hard drive for now and put that money toward a new video card. If you go 939, you can use it for another 3 years. If you go s754, you'll want to replace it next year already.
There are no more faster 754 chips coming out, and no more faster video cards coming out either. It's a dead end. If you had an AGP card worth some cash like a 6800GT, then I could see spending the money on a s754 machine, but with a two year old card that is worth less than $100, there's just no point.
Habit is not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. - Mark Twain
well, i just recently built a frinds computer for $1000 the specs are
AMD 64 3500+
Gigabyte K8NS 939-Ultra
2GB Corsair PC3200
6800 GT AGP
All purchased at Tiger Direct
meh go
amd 64 3000 venice
asus a8ne ultraNF4(has sataII non ultra does not) lose sli but then youd have to get a new psu
1gig pc3500 ram (just in case you want to overclock)
ati x800 PCI-E 256meg card (powercolor, sapphire, asus, connect3d etc etc)
or nvidia 6600gt really any flavour you want
maxtor 160 gig sata hd with ncq and 16meg cache
antec sonata case
so lets add all this up
180
135
190
250
120
130
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1005
lol 5 bucks over but if you can try and bundle some stuff and get free shipping/a few bucks knocked off
Raymondo