Panzer

Jul 8 2006, 12:13 AM

K, living in New Zealand its alot more annoying, not as much to choose from and stuff. Most RAM and motherboard parts are easily obtained but not pro video cards

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zach101

Jul 9 2006, 07:53 AM

hmm to be honest that will not game and will not even be tht good of a computer at least in my opinion. Im currently building a computer of my own. I set a 1600 dollar budget not counting shiping and handling and im buying all my self from tigerdirect.com (deffinetly the place to go if your geting alot of stuff and need good prices.) Any way for mine here is what im geting
AMD Dual 3.0 processor
2 Gig Corsair ram
160 gig 7200 RPM HDD
19 acer LCD monitor
256 ATI (forgot the exact model)
Any way ya that will be a sweet gaming rig and will do basically everything. it should cost me when all is said and done about 1800 after shipping, perhipals and what not but at least in my opinion thats really not that bad considering all your getting.

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minimcmonkey

Sep 23 2008, 05:15 PM

im presuming you mean 2 2.6ghz cores, not 2 1.33s.
With a processor of that speed, your ram will let you down, 768 isnt really that much, if your running a processor like that, to use your computer to its full potential, i would suggest 2gb. if you want gaming, the processor will be very good, but the hard drive may let you down, 80gb is not a lot, especially if you want music or videos ect on the hard drive. 56k modems are very slow, however, if you dont have access to broadband or something beter than dial-up, thats probably your best bet, you may want to find yourself an internet accellerator (googles free web accellerator is fine). most DVD drives now, are DVD writers, it will be easier for you to get a DVD writer, and will probably cost no more, since they are so cheap now.

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Accure

Aug 8 2008, 02:38 PM

Get a AMD 3800+ or somethin similiar.. they're VERY cheap and you'll be able to play enough games. Also, get 2x 512mb memory.. You can always upgrade later (not that expensive).. 80GB HDD should do if you wont install games like Age of Conan (30 gigs). A decent graphicscard would be a GeForce 8400Gs or somethin near to it.. Good luck finding !

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eukristian

Jul 28 2008, 04:42 PM

i agree with zach101 . The pc you won't to buy won't even run Photoshop perfectly and if you run more applications together you will need more memory . I recently bought a new Pc (3 months ago) with the following specs:
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
-2 x 1 GB Dual Channel DDR2 800 MHZ memory
-Samsung SATA2 250 GB HDD
-Gainward NVidia 8600 GT Golden Sample GLH 256 MB DDR3 (625/1800/1400 MHZ)
- A Deluxe ABIT motherboard . And this is somehow a medium range pc .
So what pc did you bought ?

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williamm

Jul 17 2008, 03:10 PM

QUOTE(savge17 @ Jul 7 2006, 01:35 PM)

For CPU if your into gaming go with an AMD processor. Its lightning fast for gaming, but Intel is better for design stuff etc. So its basically a tradeoff... whatever your more into.

I'm a web designer, and i run a AMD Atholon 64x2 with 3 gbs of ram 256 Nvida 6200, which will soon be upgraded dont get enought FPS on games lol, and 300 gig drive. and i run 4 Adobe programs at the same time while runnung World of Warcraft. and i have no downtime on my computer try that out and see if that works for you.

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Panzer

Aug 10 2006, 08:11 PM

Keep us updated jtxdriggers, im interested on how your super computer comes along

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