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[olimario]

CyberPowerInc is having a bunch of deals right now. How does this one sound?
It comes with a Printer and a free download of Half-Life 2

CASE :
HOT NEW! Xplorer Mid-Tower Case 420W W/ WINDOW & LCD Temperature Display (Silver Case w/Silver Face)

CPU : (939-pin) AMD ATHLON™64 4000+ CPU w/ Hyper Transport Technology

MOTHERBOARD : (Sckt939)EVGA nForce4 SLI Chipset SATA RAID Dual PCI-E Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio

MEMORY : 2048 MB (1GBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair Value Select)

VIDEO CARD : NVIDIA Geforce 6200 Graphics with TurboCache supporting 256MB 16X PCI Express VIDEO CARD

VIDEO CARD 2 : NONE
MONITOR & LCD : NONE

HARD DRIVE : Seagate 120GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache

Hard Drive 2 : NONE

Optical Drive : (Special Price) LG GWA-4161 16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Optical Drive 2 : NONE

SOUND : Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS 7.1

Price: $1004.00
( 5% off this price)

 

[Matlock]

http://ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=62559

this thread too big, or something?

 

[olimario]

Holyshit... I meant this as a reply to the other thread. I must have clicked the wrong button.
Can somebody lock this?

 

[teh_pwn]

Video card sucks if you're playing games.

At least a 6600 GT. With that CPU, go for the new stuff. 7800 line. I don't know anything about it, I'm out of touch with video card tech. Lost interest because consoles will beat it at the same price (system versus card...)

 

[olimario]

If I jump down to a gig of ram to save money, what video card should I get with it? The only game I forsee myself playing is FEAR.

 

[teh_pwn]

What's the purpose of the machine?

Why such a strong CPU, and then weak video? Are you encoding stuff?

 

[olimario]

I use photoshop, I want to be able to play certain PC games coming out, and I'm looking to do some video editing in the near future.
I downed the RAM and saved some money. What video card should I get? I don't think I need top of the line-ish

 

[teh_pwn]

I'm probably not the best person to ask that.

I do know that you shouldn't get a 6200 bargain card.

Your mobo is able to do SLI. That's allows two cards to run at once. Good for extremely high resolution games, and I think video software.

I'd say at first, get a 6800 GT, or 7800 GT. I'm not familiar with the 7800 series but it seems the 7800GT is the 2nd fastest, behind the 7800 GTX. I'm also not familiar with prices anymore, or if you can use an Ati SLI setup on a Nvidia SLI board.

Later when prices go down, you could get a 2nd card of whatever you buy.


Now, 1 GB of Corsair Value Select should be like $60. Unless they're totally ripping you off. It's not going to make up for the video.

Also, dual core processors may be good for what you're doing.

 

[element]

Here are my suggestions:
1. Swap the mobo. Go with Asus or MSI
2. Case is freaking ugly
3. Ditch the sound card. On-Board quality is great these days.
4. No reason for SLI if your getting such a low video card
5. Your needs would fit dual core

 

[element]

MSI K8N NEO2-F Athlon64 nForce3 Ultra s939 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ DUAL CORE s939 w/cooling
2 x 1Gb PC3200 400MHz DDR Memory
WDC 160GB SATA HDD 7200rpm 8MB
Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 6600GT PCI-E 128MB DDR TV/DVI Retail
SONY Black DW-Q28A 16x DVD±RW/±R Double Layer
Antec Solution Series SLK3700BQE ATX Mid Tower 350 Watt BLACK
Total = $1,074 from www.xtechnology.com

 

[olimario]

MSI K8N NEO2-F Athlon64 nForce3 Ultra s939 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ DUAL CORE s939 w/cooling
2 x 1Gb PC3200 400MHz DDR Memory
WDC 160GB SATA HDD 7200rpm 8MB
Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 6600GT PCI-E 128MB DDR TV/DVI Retail
SONY Black DW-Q28A 16x DVD±RW/±R Double Layer
Antec Solution Series SLK3700BQE ATX Mid Tower 350 Watt BLACK
Total = $1,074 from www.xtechnology.com

That looks good. Will the 6600GT run FEAR alright?
Thanks so much to everyone giving advice.

 

[element]

That looks good. Will the 6600GT run FEAR alright?
Thanks so much to everyone giving advice.

yeah, it should run fine.