I'm looking to put together a new computer from scratch and have been researching a lot and just wanted to get a few more opinions. I need a very versatile computer for work, video gaming, and video editing.
Suggestions on video cards, cases, motherboards, processors, cooling systems etc would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
2006-10-05 12:28:53 · 5 answers · asked by a f 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Well, the whole point of building a system is saving money, right? You can put together a really decent gaming rig for well under $1000 . As opposed to buying a dell xps for $2000, which won't be any faster in gaming. If you get a dual core processor it will be very versatile for any type of work or entertainment tasks. You should spend $200 on the processor, $150 on the motherboard, $300 or more on the video card(s) and get the most hard drive storage you can get for around $100 and get plextor dvd burner. Get a good brand name of RAM and Power supply. The best value in the processors in the midrange is the Athlon x2.
The most important part is the video card. You could either get 2 ge-force 7900 in sli, or an ati x1900 if you want to keep it simple. SLI is just sexier in my opinion, and it kicks butt.
You decide which is more important for your overall computing: 4GB of RAM or put some of that cash into really great SLI video card solution for better gaming. Make sure you get a good brand power supply that's a true 500 watts or more. All the parts have warranties, so you are not screwing yourself by building it yourself. You are just saving a lot of money, and frankly not getting ripped off.
2006-10-05 18:48:37 · answer #1 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A computer used for these sorts of purposes will need to be a fairly high specification system.
You mention gaming and video editing. Gaming, if you are going to be playing very up to date games will require a very high end graphics card. If you're going to be doing a lot of video editing you will probably need a lot of RAM and a very high capacity hard disk as high quality video takes up quite a lot of drive space. You would also ned a good processor.
Visit www.novatech.com for detailed information on various hardware devices. You can also purchase everything you will need to build your system.
Hope this helps.
Scott
2006-10-07 10:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by scott.radley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuite says that processor no matter what people ask and the bottom line is the Core 2 Duo's are faster right now. This is really too complex to put on here but if you e-mail me with some type of price range you are looking at I can help you. My e-mail is in my profile.
2006-10-05 13:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
start here you can buy all the parts and put your own pc together
look for the motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Dual Core Processor , on it then and the Ati Graphics card on the motherboard
add 20,48 mbr , that is 2gb of ram then or the other parts cab be put in the pc then you set all that up install a windows xp . os on to the hard drive make a system recovery cd and boom you have a good pc
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2006-10-05 12:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you are not on budget get a core 2 duo extreme processor or a pentium extreme processor 965. My choice would be the pentium extreme processor because it is really the last line of the pentium processors but core 2 duo extreme processor is 40% faster and saves 40% more energy than the pentium extreme processor
2006-10-05 12:35:20 · answer #5 · answered by Ben 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋