saminal the lonesome/gregarious cowboy
Posts : 30 Join date : 2008-07-04 Age : 38 Location : Bris Vegas
| Subject: PC Specs!! Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:11 am | |
| Entry Level / Budget PCMotherboard: | Asus P5GC-MX | Processor: | Intel Pentium 4 Dual Core E2180 (2 * 2.0GHz) | RAM: | Team 1024MB DDR2 PC5300 (667MHz) | Hard Drive: | Western Digital 160GB SATA-II | Optical Drive: | Samsung 20X DVD-RW Super-Multi (SATA) | Case: | Up to you - see below | Case - I'm not going to pick a case for you, as you probably have your own taste in colour, size, lights etc. All you need to know is you're after a Mini ATX, Midi ATX, or Full ATX case (Full will be huge, I'd recommend sticking with Mini) and make sure it's got at least a 350W Power Supply in it. Hardware Price - Where I shop, that whole setup would cost just under $300. Of course it's just the tower, so if you're not happy using your existing keyboard, mouse, and monitor, you can add another $250 or so for those. Setup Price - I would expect a computer store to charge between $50 and $100 to put it together, and if you want them to set Windows (XP, I would recommend) up on it, and install the drivers, add another $150. But if you've got your own disk and ways of getting round WGA ( ) then you'll save that. I'll post more specs another time, back to work now. | |
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saminal the lonesome/gregarious cowboy
Posts : 30 Join date : 2008-07-04 Age : 38 Location : Bris Vegas
| Subject: Re: PC Specs!! Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:41 am | |
| Gaming PCMotherboard: | Asus P5N-MX | Processor: | Intel Core2Duo E6850 | RAM: | Team Elite 2GB (2 *1GB Kit) PC6400 (800MHz) | Graphics: | Asus GF9600GT 512MB DDR3 | Hard Drive: | 2 * 160GB Western Digital SATA-II | CD/DVD: | Samsung 20X DVD-RW Super-Multi (SATA) | Case: | Up to you - see below | Case - I'm still not going to pick a case for you. All you need to know is you're after a Mini ATX, Midi ATX, or Full ATX case (Mini or Midi would be my recommendation, either will fit) and make sure it's got at least a 450W Power Supply in it. I'd expect to pay at least $100 for the case for a gaming machine. Hardware Price- I can buy those parts for a total of about $750. It's still just the tower, so again, if you're not happy using your existing keyboard, mouse, and monitor, you can add another $250 or so for those. I'd recommend getting a widescreen monitor, 19" or 22". For brand I recommend Asus or Samsung. Setup Price - Exactly the same as above. I strongly recommend avoiding Vista for gaming. | |
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