How much to build a gaming computer ?

Question

how much would i be spending (australian dollars) to buy or make a gaming computer , i want it to be able to play games like battlefield 2, doom 3 , quake 4 , ect . should i buy or make ?

Answer 1

probally 200 bucks or alittle cheaper if you buy used parts

Answer 2

People will talk you into spending over 4000 dollars for "State of the Art" it's a Waste a couple months later when it's depreciated to about 1/5th it's price.

I would suggest getting a good Processor, lotsa room for Memory (Memory is VERY important to games), and an ATI Radeaon or Naveda that's 2-6 versions lower then the latest release (otherwise they may be glitchy)Video/Graphics card[Equally as important as tons of memory]. You will also want to look into what the games are compatible with. The ATI Radeaon Video/Graphics card seems to be most required by games I've seen, but usually the other is also acceptable. This is important because some games will ONLY WORK with certain Graphics/Video cards, no way around it.

Hard Drives are cheap and big now and cases are abundent so these will not be problems for you to get.

You may want to pay someone at a computer place to assemble your computer because if you get too much static into the Hardware it will fry and be trash.. you can't use once things get fried... noone can (some try but a week later it won't even turn on).

Answer 3

Mine seems to run well, though I could use more ram. All said and done, it was just over $780 Australian from www.cyberpowerpc.com

They put it together for you, you just select the parts. While it would be slightly cheaper to buy the parts seperately and build it yourself, going through cyberpower (or alienware, etc) gives it a professional touch and usually comes with a warranty and tech support (24/7 tech, 3-year warranty in the case of cyber power). I can personally vouch for the quality of their customer service; they're also great about RMAing defective products.

Answer 4

the most econmical way is a opteron single core on the dfi nf4 ultra-d with a good case and 2gigs mushkin pc4000 run memory at .01v higher than the max recomended and 500mz change cpu to memory ratio to 10 to 9 and clock cpu to 2.8 or 3.0gz run a 7950 vidoe card silverstone 600watt psu and the asus silent cpu cooler run xp pro media center is unstable sometimes run 4 rapters in raid 0 if you have more money the asus a8n32 and the new corsair pc4400 the single cores are the better way to go for gamming for now till the bugs are worked out and the price goes down

Answer 5

with Intel and AMD going into the price and clockspeed wars it makes for an appealing market for someone thinking of buying a system. I myself got a new system a while back (when the pentium D's were introduced) I orrigionally planned on building my system but after some research found that the pentium D's ran on the hotter side, and while its a decent processor, you need to be some sort of cooling master to build your own system. I stumbled across Dell's website and ended up with a refurbished system. out the door under 1442.00 and just added what i want. Now, compared to todays standards its not top of the line but i can assure you it plays bf2 dm3 and q4 just fine. and for that kind of money today you can get even better, my suggestion get a referbished system with an intel core 2 processor so its set up to run cool and then add the goodies to it. upgrade your own ram and HD maybe add another video card and link them (nvidia SLI of course) and you can get a relativley nice system for descent money. An AVID computer geek will argue a true gaming machine needs top of the line blah blah blah but the truth is, systems are getting faster and faster and games just dont need it, they can take advantage of it but to run a game at a decent resolution with a fair amount of effects and maybe even antialiasing your looking at about 1450.00 AUD the top of the line makes a huge jump finacially and for not much of a visual differance hope that helps

Answer 6

A nice decent computer that can play games decently for the next 2 years is gona be around $700 (American, just find a US - Aussie dollar converter) The graphics card is the most important thing.

Answer 7

Every time we try to build one gaming computer... soon it becomes old... well I would suggest if you can buy one Alienware.

Just go to " http://www.alienwaresystems.com.au/ " and you will see what I mean.

If you had the budget specified I could have directed you to the appropriate one...

Answer 8

Ask for estimates (quotations) from reputed dealers. Provide them the specific configuration requirements, so that they can estimate accurately.