[jas98235]

hey everone,

ok so i bought a new computer september of last year (a emachines T3508) it has served me well, but its just not powerfull enough for my needs! it dosent even have dual core! (was shocked when i learnd that, which i only foundout acouple days ago!) anyways i finaly decided to build a pc. now this will be my first build and i dont know much about computer parts (i know alot about computers! just not whats in them) so i need some advice on what is good and what to stear clear of! a lil info on what i do/would like to do:

what i do:
a little bit of 3D modeling
ALOT ov video encoding (mostly encoding dvd's)
watch alot of movies/tv shows and stuff like that

what id like to do:
im looking to get into gaming
would love to beable to watch my HD movies (backed up onto my hard drive)

so i would like something like a entry-mid range gaming pc/something fast enough to encode my videos to dvd's fast. im looking to stay in $700-$1,000 range. i already have a good idea on which case and processor i want.

any suggestions will be gratley appreciated!

[Razer]

multiple dvd drives would be helpful i suppose, whacking great hard drive if you are backing up lots of films and imagery, graphics cards from nvidia or ati. shed load of ram wont go amiss, ddr2 is £30 or about $60 for 2 gb. and believe it or not i recommend... Vista. *braces for insults* its slightly faster than xp at encoding and since MS are discontinuing XP it will have updates every week. A lot of your components will travel from your old pc, dvd drives, mice keyboard etc and your old hdd can be employed as slave if you like. good luck and keep us psted on how it goes

[jas98235]

thanks alot for the suggestions! someone on another site gave me links and i think i got the whole thing layd out! the total will come to around $1,100 which is rite around what i was expecting to spend! wow vista! do i dare tread those waters! lol well i actuly have vista installd on one of my hard drives rite now but my computer isnt fast enough for it..runs at 80% cpu load constantly! i figred ill save some money by using some of the parts from my computer now (dvd drive, and 3hard drives)im knda short on cash rite now but i figured itll take me about 2 months to get the money for the build, but i will keep u guys updated!

[jas98235]

ok well here is the lise that im working off of:

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131142

$115

Cpu:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115017
$280.00

RAM:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231122
$110.00

Graphics Card:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130303

thats the parts that were suggested to me, i like them what do u guys think? also i will swas the case he suggested with the COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 or the Antec 900, and the psu with this:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817814005

so what do u guys think is it worth the money? i think it is like exactly what i wanted! and that should be able to run vista nicely!

[mcbee]

Are you going to use two GPUs? If not then you don't need a SLI capable board. Many would suggest using an Intel chipset with an IntelCPU. I would look at the Asus P5K series of boards.

[jas98235]

yea im probably gonna get 2, k ill take a look at those, but i dont realy kno what to look 4!?

[ARMIGO]

Hi,

Your not really accurate on what components you need. You say you need a computer. But do you also need a keyboard,mouse,monitor (Flatscreen) or any other components. I assume yes since you havent mentioned anything about it. If you dont need them you can delete them in the end. Which means that it will cost you less money.

Atleast you already know what case you wanna have. Since I dont know the price of the case my assembling coud be to expensive to add it with the case you want. Anyway, I searched at newegg. And I made up the following system.

Drive: LG drive
HDD:Seagate barracuda
Graphics card:XFX 8600GT
PSU:Antec NeoPower 550W
Keyboard:Logitech 920
Mouse:Logitech
Memory:Kingston HyperX 2x1GB 800MHZ
Mainboard:Asus P5K
CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
OS:Windows vista Home premium

OR!

Windows XP professional

Subtotal with Windows xp included > $ 1057,90
Subtotal with Windows vista included > $ 1027,90

This is the best assembling with your money in my view. It coud be slightly better. If you might be wondering why i added a 550Watt psu in the system. Well that's becose you might upgrade your pc in the future. With a better GPU for example. So you should probably not have to upgrade the PSU for a very long time.

The 8600 is not a over the top GPU. And since You asked for a med gaming pc. I think the 8600GT would be good enough.

Futhermore I hope your case isn't to expensive. And I hope you can add it to this system.

Question?

Who's actualy gonna assemble this system. Are you? If yes be carefull for the first time. And read carefully trough the manual. Building a pc isnt really hard to do. But you got to do it good. Becose if you screw up so does your wallet.

QUOTES

yea im probably gonna get 2, k ill take a look at those, but i dont realy kno what to look 4!?

If you really want to have the SLI MB with 2 videocards. Then ofcourse do so. Just got to say that I disadvice it. With 2 x 8800GTX your good to go. Im not sure what videocard you were planning to buy. But which card it may ever be. Im sure it isnt a 8800GTX, since it is imposibble to buy one of them with a budget of $1100 max.

So you should probably be able to buy a 8600GT. Which is the best card I think you can afford. 2 x 8600GT's really doesnt speed up anything. you pay 2 x $100 for 2 of those. And $50 - $100 more and you can afford a 8800GT which is almost as good as the 8800GTX and is definetly not equaly to the 8600GT since that card is much worse.

I hope I induced you to buy only a single 8600GT. And if your really dreaming about a sli system. You need a higher budget. And I would disadvice to think about SLI in any case. Since it only slightly boost up performance. To account it for more directly. You need to be kinda rich and have no idea about what youre doing when buying SLI. Or you have to be a gaming freak. I hope youre not.

[ARMIGO]

also i will swas the case he suggested with the COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 or the Antec 900, and the psu with this:

I dont want to sound prejudice in anyway. Since the suggester coud be a friend of yours. But he definetly dont know what he says. The PSU is good. There's no doubt about that. But since you were thinking about running your system in SLI which I disadvice. I do think you were thinking about a 8600 card. Or any other card compared to the 8600. Since you really cant afford a 8800GTS or higher. You might get a GT version. But in case you buy the 8800GT you wouldnt be able to get the quadcore which i really advice to buy with your current demands.

In this case Youd better buy the PSU I suggested. 700Watt is way to much. Even my current 550Watt PSU is to powerfull actualy. But I still do advice it in case you might buy a better videocard. You might even buy a lower end videocard then the 8600. And buy a 9800 in the future (Isnt released yet)

[jas98235]

thanks for the info, well I have 2 dvd drives in my pc right now, I'll probably transfer only one but buy a lightscribe later on, the reason I picked such a high power psu is because I will be running about 5 hard drives, and 2-3 dvd drives. No I dont even know the person who suggested the setup to me, he suggested I buy this one case which came with a psu already installed but it was $300 which is way too much.

Umm sli...I'm rethinking that, I dont think I need to run sli. Also I have like 5 extra keyboards, and I'll just use the mouse from my current pc. Also I already have a 20" lcd which I'm using for my 360 but I'll probably swap it and use it for the new pc.

I have both xp and vista already so I don't need to wory about the os. I actually don't have a limit on my budget I just wanted to stay in that range so, the case I picked (COOLER MASTER Stacker 830) is $170, but they have the Antec 900 for only $80 at my local computer store so I'll probably get that. I'm sorry but you completly lost me with the gpu talk! lol and what do you mean by if I get the 8800GT I wouldn't be able to get the quadcore? Do you mean i wouldnt have enough money?

Sorry I jumped around so much, I just type stuff as it pops into my head and I get side tracked and it sometimes doesn't make sense! Plus I barely ever re-read what I write so I dont edit it! and I can't spell for my life!

[alex]

I edited your last post for you Jas. It was bugging the hell out of me.

You need to slow down and take your time with your post's if you want accurate help.

Some people don't even reply to post's typed in the way you're doing them so you could potentially be missing out on some good advice.

Breath!!