My friend wants to build his own computer for $600, good enough for gaming. Gerv ..?

[quote="Jin-Roh":4a83a]My friend wants to build his own computer for $600, good enough for gaming. Gerv ..?[/quote:4a83a]


Has he any parts he can reuse like case, psu, ram or monitor?

If he has all the above you could make something prety decent for $600, if its all from scratch though i doubt you'd get much for $600 in terms of running games at aceptablefps\image quality settings.

[url="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144114"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820144114[/url] - ram

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813127222 - mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103535 - cpu

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814133155 - vid

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827152058 - dvd

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822144102 HD


$588.47 for the above not including shipping. Not amazing in spec terms but no too bad considering its under $600.

Thanks, one point - he mostly plays WoW, that's about it.

Ive no clue about whats required to run wow, never played it or tried it. Prolly better asking akuma i think hes into that game.

need some tips on converting fraps videos into .wmv files, or compressing them to an acceptable size? I tried using windows movie maker and it made the video turn into an acid trip.
edit: nvm, d/ling virtualdub so I can compress to a different format.

http://www.cantenna.com/

Basicly a pringles can made into a signal booster.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

A DIY guide

Heres a good upgrade for agp users

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30502


7800gt on the agp format happy:

So Gainward = good, but not available in N. America?

Its good becuase this is hands down the fastest card available on the agp format. More than likely others will follow as the agp instal base is massive compared to pci express.

I don't think that Mobo you selected has PCI Express. Your vid card is PCI-E.

I'd go SLI with the mobo personally, but thatll be another $100.

[quote:93b3f]AGP Slots 1x AGP 4X/8X
PCI Express x16 None
PCI Slots 5
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Yup no pci express. better of going 939 socket and getting an nforce 4 mobo.

Oh, and I just realized both the CPU and Mobo you selected are refurbished. Not sure if you wanted that, or just made a mistake.

socket 754 annoy:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103537 CPU - $12 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128268 939 Nforce 4 Mobo $25 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227039 DC RAM - $10 less with rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130283 Vid Card - $60 less with rebate.

Total combo of all the above = $33 less than what you put. And the 939 socket Gerv suggested and CPU you wanted. I don't know the gigabyte co. who makes the mobo, I just selected it cause I think you want something cheap. The vid card I dunno what the difference is between that and what you selected. As far as I can tell its only a little slower core clock by like 20hz. Ram I don't know. I bought OCZ with my PC and its worked good so far. Maybe Gerv would know.

I'm just bored so I figured I'd take a stab at configuring a cheaper PC.

[quote="9mm BeRetTa":1a010]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537 CPU - $12 more.

[url="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128268"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128268[/url] 939 Nforce 4 Mobo $25 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227039 DC RAM - $10 less with rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130283 Vid Card - $60 less with rebate.

Total combo of all the above = $33 less than what you put. And the 939 socket Gerv suggested and CPU you wanted. I don't know the gigabyte co. who makes the mobo, I just selected it cause I think you want something cheap. The vid card I dunno what the difference is between that and what you selected. As far as I can tell its only a little slower core clock by like 20hz. Ram I don't know. I bought OCZ with my PC and its worked good so far. Maybe Gerv would know.

I'm just bored so I figured I'd take a stab at configuring a cheaper PC.[/quote:1a010]

Hmmm - thats an interesting build. . .I just want something fucking fast. Not Forte "I have 400 dollars to blow on a CPU fast" - but something where I can fire up most games that arent named FEAR and play them on high settings and have it look good doing it.

oOo: .....

question. every time I make a movie in windows movie maker, it turns into some acid trip for my screen. I am taking fraps videos that I have recorded and putting them into windows movie maker, then saving the file as the largest size possible. you guys eer heard of anythng like this?

edit: problem solved, turns out it was windows media player that had the problems. oOo:

For God-knows what reason my computer does two things which are starting to drive me a little crazy.

1) It randomly black screens and resets itself, the moniter never comes back on and the only way to get any picture back is to hit the reset button but somtimes that doesn't even work so you have to flat out shut it off and turn it back on to get it working again.

2) I lose my internet connection, I'm connected to a network and I've checked to see if the server was reset, or the internet went down or if I was just unplugged from the network. No, none of these are the case, I'll lose my internet connection but the computer in the next room will be doing just fine. And the only remedy for this is to reset my computer.

Edit: I also noticed that I lose my connection to the internet most often when I'm using Limewire or Azureus.

aight bitches just about to buy this system right now and ive checked as much as i can to see any compatibility errors/issues but it seems all good, so give it a double going over for me and you can

AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3200+ Socket 939pin 512k L2cache 90nm Retail Boxed Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=88109

Sapphire X800GTO² 256mb GDDR3 PCI-E VGA/DVI/TV-out Lite Retail
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=98063

Asus A8N-E SKT 939 NFORCE 4 AUDIO LAN PCI-Express ATX
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=95458

CRUCIAL 1GB DDR PC3200 400MHz 184-PIN UNBUFF 128MX64
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=65719

Seagate ST3250824AS 250GB 7200RPM SATA300 8MB Cache - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... uid=105761

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Midi Tower - With 450W SmartPower2.0 PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=93403


thoughts?

Ive heard sapphire video cards are shitty....I dunno maybe I heard wrong

The built by ati cards are made by sapphire, no difference in quality at all.

When you get the gto 2 make sure its the proper gto 2. Sapphire have been shiping some regular gto's in gto 2 boxes for some reason.

The standard gto has a blue pcb and no pci-e power conector on it. The one you want is this one:

[img]http://www.netzwelt.de/images/articles/sapphire_radeon_x800_gto_2_1126884083.jpg[/img]


What psu are you ordering for the setup?

its the antec 450w SmartPower2.0 that coems with the sonata 2 case.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=93403

That'll be fine for it.

so its a safe selection then, bybuybuybuy?

Looks to be yup, ebuyer links wont open for me for some reason though. cuss:

your telling me, i go to checkout and it all goes belly up and the site dies cuss:

I am looking around for a new monitor. any of you have a good reccomendation?

i have a sapphire ATI x800 Pro, it works just fine.

Forte: Get a 21" CRT monitor for 1/2 the price of a 19" LCD monitor.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/13/dell3.jpg[/img]

dell 2005 fpw ftw rock:

cant get a CRT, I dont have enough room.

ur wallpaper is weak gerv

We're in geRV's jerk off zone! ed:

that's awesome Gerv, how much?

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":0d9aa]


We're in geRV's jerk off zone! ed:[/quote:0d9aa]

happy:

Just inches below that theres a few sticky stains on the walls. ed:


Cost me £400 which is like. i dunno $700.

[url=http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=20053YR&Page=productlisting .aspx&spagenum=1&items_per_page=25&orderby=final_p rice&sortdirection=&image_flag=True&show_summary=T rue&category_id=6198&brandid=&mnfsku=&SearchType=& Pageb4Search=&ModelSelection=&iCompatid=&selection typeids=&l=en&c=us&cs=19&SubmitSearch=&servicetag= &ManufactSelection=&ModelName=&category_name=&RPU= &reset=True&k=&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&InStock=&refurbis hed=&fe=:468a4]Gerv's Monitor[/url:468a4]

Pretty cheap from dell direct. eek:

Lol ya thats what i was happy: because its almost 200 bucks less

if I got one of those, I'd watch movies on my computer instead of my tv...

im gonna go for the 32' that was used when they tested the quad-sli a few pages back