Hardware Analysis - Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Jerome Pastor — 2008-08-08T08:33:06-05:00

well.. i went to fry's today and did some bad impulse shopping. well, not bad as in the parts, but because i could've saved money buying it online.

today i bought a q6600 quad core cpu, 4gb (2x2gb) corsair 6400 ram, 160gb sata hdd for 50 bucks and a gigabyte mobo. i decided to keep my old case and dvd/rw drive. pretty much all i need now is a video card, so far my total has come up to $470.00. After my video card purcahse, I am estimating everything to be about 650.00 at most.

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

FingerMeElmo87 — 2008-08-07T20:39:07-05:00

Optic Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106265
Reliable and proven

Case/PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119142
awesome case with excellent air flow and expandability with a reputable 550Watt PSU

HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148262
Great drive with excellent reviews. dont settle for anything less than 250GB

GPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102747
best performance per dollar you can find

Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211188
4GBs with great reviews. reliable

Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138118
Potent overclocker with good reviews overall from buyers and sites

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115052
Overclockable monster. can best most AMDs and even Quadcore phenoms as is in most games

total + $706.93
can't beat this with a 5ft stick.

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Jerome Pastor — 2008-08-07T18:47:10-05:00

should i got for a quad core phenom processor or maybe an intel quad core? it seems that they are around the same price range as some of the core duo processors!

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Jerome Pastor — 2008-08-06T09:16:50-05:00

k so i think i will be getting the 9800gtx+ and the e7200 ( i heard it can be oc'd to be as fast as an e8400. too bad p4 mobos are pricier though. anything else i should double check on such as ram and such? it seems that this rig is slightly over my budget, but that's okay

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

McFly — 2008-08-05T23:51:58-05:00

Might as well go for 4GB now. DDR2 is nutters cheap.

A Rosewill PSU?

HDD's are pretty cheap now too. You'd probably fill 80GB in a snap.

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Jerome Pastor — 2008-08-05T23:26:04-05:00

i did a bit more research... any good cheap p45 mobos that anyone knows of that would come with a case? i totalled everything together with a 9800gtx+ and e7200 processor, my total went up from $612 to $608 + a case which would equal about 650 or so

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Meats_Of_Evil — 2008-08-05T22:13:44-05:00

A better question is do you have a specific budget in mind?

Re: Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Adam Kolak — 2008-08-05T21:59:18-05:00

First of all let me tell you that the 8800GTS 640MB is an outdated card and I really can not recommend it at all. the 8800GT 512MB is faster and can be bought for $149. Otherwise I'd step up to the HD4850 or 9800GTX+ for about $190 to $200.

AMD does offer many good CPUs at very cheap prices, but I'd still go with a Core 2 Duo E7200 instead if I was the one building the system. I'd also get a solid entry level P45 motherboard.

In this day and age I would say 80GB is really way too small of a HDD for most people unless you really do not keep any music, pictures, videos, or games on your system. I'd say get a 250GB or 320GB at minimum. They are putting 500GB hard drives in budget systems these days.

I am not sure why you want a USB network card, virtually all motherboards have built in Ethernet jacks these days. If it's wireless your after get a PCI or PCI-e x1 card that has Wireless G.

Opinions on this possible rig I have in mind

Jerome Pastor — 2008-08-05T21:42:13-05:00

It's been about 5 years, but I think it is now time to upgrade my gaming rig. I came here before I built my current rig and had my choices for hardware critiqued and it has kept up with a ton of games, even COD4. It now seems that its life has come to an end because Hellgate London runs at low fps and isn't as crisp as I would like it to be. So for my choice for an economical right I have:

Processor: AMD athlon 64 dual core 6000+ windsor core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103773

MB: ASUS M2N-E AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131022

Memory: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 2GB PC2 6400 (planning on bumping it up to 4gb+ in the future)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227231

Graphics card: EVGA 640-P2-N829-AR GeForce 8800GTS SSC 640MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130317

Case: rosewill atx case (good cheap case I heard, but not too durable. doesn't matter to me since I won't be travelling around with it)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147062

PSU: Rosewill 500wPSU (do u guys think this will power the whole rig?)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182016

CD/DVD drive: cd+dvd r/rw
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136144

Hard Disk: Seagate 80gb HDD 7200rpm 8mb cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148231

finally...

NIC: Linksys USB network adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124122

Can you guy please also help me to make sure everything is compatible? I am a little rusty on computer parts at the moment since it has been about 5 years since I last visited this site :p. Thank you so much guys! Also, if there are better/cheaper alternatives that are reliable, please let me know!