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If I wanted to buy a new comptuter that I could play video games on and do things like video edting where should I look?

I'm not looking to spend lots of money.

But I can still say-

" I spendzz tha dollazzz"

  • 01.30.2005 1:43 PM PDT
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Build your own. They're cheaper, better, and you know what goes into it.

Otherwise...meh, Dell and Gateway are okay, but not great. You'll spend 50% more or so if you buy one of those brands.

What's your price range?

  • 01.30.2005 2:01 PM PDT
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building your own is the wqay to go.
I recommend the geforce 6800 graphic card.

  • 01.30.2005 2:16 PM PDT
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Is there a website I can go to that will help me with the building and the buying?

  • 01.30.2005 2:50 PM PDT
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Well www.newegg.com is very good with buying computer parts. A site for building I don’t really know but this is what I would do:

First find your motherboard that you want, this will be a reference to what you can or cant put on it. You usually want a motherboard without onboard graphics or sound, but then again sound can be pretty good on some of them. You probably want a pci express and normal pci connectors.

For the processor, it’s whatever brand you want but id say to get a p4 with ht technology, but your mobo needs to have that ht tech

Next you want your ram, you can only get what your mobo can support, which most likely be ddr or ddr2 ram, and get 1 to 2 sticks of it

Now for your graphics card, there are 2 major, nividia and ati. Whichever you get, get the latest and greatest in pci express

Here is where we get into the lesser, but very important stuff; the HD can be either ultra ata or serial ata. Ultra ata is older with a wide, flat ribbon cord and is slower data rate. Sata is a normal-looking cord and a fast data rate. Get whichever you want but make sure your mobo can support either

Next is the power supply, get one with a higher output, the higher, the more stuff you can hook up

And there is the case, just get whatever atx you want

Here’s the last thing, get at least 1 of a cd-drive to a DVD rw.


Here’s a list of things that I suggest:

Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-1 30-461&depa=1
$147.00

Cpu
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-1 16-184&depa=1
$189.00

Ram*2
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-1 44-165&depa=1
$229.34 ($114.67)

Video card
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-1 22-207&depa=1
$339.00

Hd
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-1 44-318&depa=1
$65.00

Power supply
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-1 48-002&depa=1
$59.00

Case
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-1 66-001&depa=1
$56.00

Disk drives
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=27-1 31-329&depa=1
$104.50
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-1 31-119&depa=1
$25.50

Sata cord*2
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=12-1 06-002&depa=1
$9.98($4.49)

Cpu fan
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-1 51-118&depa=1
$20.49

Which comes out to about $1248.71, but you would still need whatever network cards or other cards you would need

  • 01.30.2005 5:48 PM PDT
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^^^^
I second newegg.com. I bought every part of my computer from there and it runs great.
One word of advice is BUILD YOUR OWN. I built an awesome computer for like $800 and don't worry their easy to build.

  • 01.30.2005 6:09 PM PDT
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How much does it cost if you buy all the parts and then take it somewhere like Comp USA and have them put it together?

  • 01.30.2005 7:20 PM PDT
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Are you SERIOUSLY recommending Intel? I dont see why anymore, unless you care about shaving 10 seconds off the time is takes to encode large video files. Games are pwned by AMD, and AMD is cheaper.

DDR2 is expensive and does not yield performance increases yet due to latency.

  • 01.30.2005 7:26 PM PDT
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Buy the parts and find a computer geek (no offense intended, I'm partly including myself in that group :) ) to do it. It will probably be cheaper than taking it to CompUSA or something. Everyone needs atleast one friend that is a freakin' genius with computers. If you don't have one, go get one. ;)

  • 01.30.2005 7:29 PM PDT
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Yeah but I live in a red neck area. Whenever someone gets a new computer I usually ask, "Oh really? What kind?" Then they respond either with: "It's a Dell/Gateway" and then "I'll say, oh what are it's specifications?" and then they'll say either, "it has a pentium four processor." that's seriously all they know because that's what they see on the box/TV that they actually understand.

  • 01.30.2005 8:33 PM PDT
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Okay, sorry boo but pentiums are not as good as AMD's fopr gaming. AMD's are cheaper and outperform the P4's. My 3500 running at 2.3 GHz beats a 3.4GHz P4.

I suggest an AMD socket 939, 3200 or above.

  • 01.30.2005 8:45 PM PDT
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Yeah.....Pentium, AMD, AMDium, it doesn't matter to me. Most computers come with Pentium 4 so most people have Pentium 4 processors.

  • 01.30.2005 9:08 PM PDT