Well the psu on my 2 year old dell fried and i've decided to buy a new psu and give the computer away to my sister. it's not a bad computer, but it's not enough for most of the new games coming out. If you guys can help me out with making a gaming pc that'd be awesome. i need a gaming pc. i have a monitor, mouse, keyboard.. if you guys can find a case that comes with a psu that'd be awesome. my budget is around $800 CAD. but if $100 makes a big difference in performance i guess i can dish that out. so anywhere from around $750-$900 CAD. Prefered site is tigerdirect.ca (since i've bought from there before, and i liked the service) but other sites are okay too. So please help me :] and thanks in advance.
I'll help later when I get home. I'm at a friends house, and tigerdirect.ca doesnt want to work for me. I'll be home in 3-4 hours...
alright, thanks alot.. i've seen some of the setups you've made for people so i am excited about what you can make for me
I'm looking right now, but do you have any preferences on anything? color/size of case, or form factor (ATX (normal) or Small) SATA or EIDE Hard Drive DVD/R/W or CD/R/W GFX card, AGP/PCI-E, 128/256 GFX RAM Motherboard Memory 512MB/1GB I'll continue looking around, and post suggestions for ya
don't care much for color of case.. as long as it comes with a psu and doesn't look too crappy for vid card, i'd really like a 256 mb card, and atleast 1 gig of ram. the rest i don't really care about. i made a computer on newegg for about $900 USD, and i really like it. anyways, thanks for taking your time to help me. i can't wait untill you finish
*sigh* finally, hard to make it under 800-900, but i did it... Case (awesome man!): 60.99 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...8351&CatId=1844 Motherboard (754) & CPU (AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.40GHz): 350.99 - 40.00 rebate = 310.99 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...8854&CatId=1181 Memory (1GB): 114.99 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...70139&CatId=147 GFX Card (256mb): 219.97 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...6818&CatId=1560 HDD (160GB, SATA): 80.99 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...p?EdpNo=1487623 DVD (DVD+-RW/+-R DL CD-RW): 53.99 http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/Sea...1647585&CatId=0 Total: 881.92 edit: oh, the total is before the rebate for the mobo and cpu. so once you get the rebate, you'll get 50 back... if I'm forgetting anything, let me know. I do that sometimes
thanks alot dude, it looks great.. i'm thinking about saving up some more money and buying a dual cpu. is there a really big diff between norm 64 bit cpus and dual cores?
well, you can run seperate programs on each core, so its like running 2 CPUs at one time. but most of us dont need dual core. It costs a hell of alot more...
ah, well yeah i guess i don't really need that. if anyone else feels like they want to make a pc that'd be awesome. it's nice to have more than 1 thing to choose from.
if you had the extra to spend, a dual core proc helps a lot with general use and multimedia, but for gaming sheer clock speed wins... still it's nice to keep things going in the background while gaming or to play in windowed mode. When you play full screen mode the transition time between the game and the desktop also goes as well. if you have the cash, go for the x2 3800+ or the opertron 165 you will notice the diference.
