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Need some suggestions on building a new computer
xShadow:
--- Quote from: NaRu on December 26, 2009, 04:54:37 PM ---I would wait a bit until the Core i9 comes out because the Core i7 will drop in price. Also Nvidia is coming out with their new 300 series. That will drop more prices.
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Well the problem with that is that we can say that about any line of cores: they're soon gonna release something that's better than it is. If I wait now, I'll be ready to buy an i7 and they'll be ready to release an i11 or something and it'll be better to hold off and get an i9...
I don't think I wanna screw with that. Unless there's a really good reason to get an i7 over an i5, I don't think I'm going to hold out for one. If I need more speed, I'll overclock the i5 a little bit.
Graphics card is another story, though. I'm not getting one of those until later, so I probably will wait until Nvidia/ATI release their next offering, if it's not too far in the future.
--- Quote ---What I would really recommend, instead of coming here and asking a bunch of anime nerds who like to pretend they know hardware when they really don't, head over to the forums at overclockers and post your build on there, where you will actually recieve solid advice from people who know what they're talking about.
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Umm... plenty of you folks have already built computers yourself, and I know many people here do know what they're talking about... otherwise this topic wouldn't have many constructive comments (and it does). You did make me "lol", though, because that is kind of true in a way (I'd end up getting more constructive responses somewhere like that). I just feel more comfortable asking here, though. >_>;
--- Quote ---Overall you've spec'd a pretty cheap machine. I would, however always recommend a decent Corsair PSU - you wouldn't need more than a 550 (already overkill), but a solid PSU is the basis of any good system.
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Well, the PSU that I'm hoping isn't messed up is my TX650, which is a good 650 watt corsair PSU. If it is totaled, I'll probably get that 550 watt PSU I listed up there. Maybe a 500 watt, if it's much cheaper. Depends on the graphics card I end up choosing later.
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: xShadow on December 26, 2009, 09:36:49 PM ---
--- Quote ---What I would really recommend, instead of coming here and asking a bunch of anime nerds who like to pretend they know hardware when they really don't, head over to the forums at overclockers and post your build on there, where you will actually recieve solid advice from people who know what they're talking about.
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Umm... plenty of you folks have already built computers yourself, and I know many people here do know what they're talking about... otherwise this topic wouldn't have many constructive comments (and it does). You did make me "lol", though, because that is kind of true in a way (I'd end up getting more constructive responses somewhere like that). I just feel more comfortable asking here, though. >_>;
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you may get more posts, but I highly doubt they'd be all that constructive.
Overall your machine looks like a fairly solid low-end build.
Big thing I'd recommend is a Creative X-Fi audio card. Not necessarily the top of the line one, but for about $60 more you can get a decent sound card that will boost performance more than simply getting the next processor up when it comes to games and such not.
I would also recommend AGAINST getting a Sony anything. Their consumer electronics and computer parts are complete fucking garbage.
nstgc:
You would get fewer people like me who only now is recognising that the power consumption states I've seen are not for the video cards themselves, but rather for the whole system.
Ignore my comments about PSUs aside from "bad power supplies also come with a price tag".
xShadow:
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on December 27, 2009, 12:46:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: xShadow on December 26, 2009, 09:36:49 PM ---
--- Quote ---What I would really recommend, instead of coming here and asking a bunch of anime nerds who like to pretend they know hardware when they really don't, head over to the forums at overclockers and post your build on there, where you will actually recieve solid advice from people who know what they're talking about.
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Umm... plenty of you folks have already built computers yourself, and I know many people here do know what they're talking about... otherwise this topic wouldn't have many constructive comments (and it does). You did make me "lol", though, because that is kind of true in a way (I'd end up getting more constructive responses somewhere like that). I just feel more comfortable asking here, though. >_>;
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you may get more posts, but I highly doubt they'd be all that constructive.
Overall your machine looks like a fairly solid low-end build.
Big thing I'd recommend is a Creative X-Fi audio card. Not necessarily the top of the line one, but for about $60 more you can get a decent sound card that will boost performance more than simply getting the next processor up when it comes to games and such not.
I would also recommend AGAINST getting a Sony anything. Their consumer electronics and computer parts are complete fucking garbage.
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Yeah, I've already decided that I was gonna get an audio card. However, that's gonna be later.
About the Sony, if you look at my current shopping cart picture you'll see that I actually replaced it with another drive that's a DVD burner, too, in case I needed to maybe burn a DVD some time.
Now, I didn't quite get around to buying it yesterday (I got busy for some reason), but I'll seriously be buying it today.
On a side note, is it really gonna be THAT low end? I mean, I've accepted the fact that it's cheap and it's not gonna be blazing fast. Oh well, what I bought is what I'll get, I guess. I hope I can run stuff decently on my new POSmachine.
--- Quote from: nstgc on December 27, 2009, 01:11:02 AM ---You would get fewer people like me who only now is recognising that the power consumption states I've seen are not for the video cards themselves, but rather for the whole system.
Ignore my comments about PSUs aside from "bad power supplies also come with a price tag".
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Not a big deal, considering I wasn't seriously considering a new PSU (yet).
molbjerg:
4 GBs of RAM and intel Quad Core is more than enough to play ANY game, graphics card will be your bottleneck by a significant margin.
It's slightly better than my home machine (Q6600) and I consider that a decent machine, basically.
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