From newegg, everything costs $985.47 with shipping and vista.
My only question is what kind of framerates am I looking at for Source engine-based games as well as HL2
Anyway: You should get a 10k RPM or faster system disk. And a separate Cache disk.
You are going to use Vista so you need the fastest parts you can buy.
Or… you could buy a real computer that uses EFI: a Macintosh.
Trying to tell someone that a mac could make a good gaming computer? Hah! Prepare to be laughed at and possibly insulted…
Also, I’m curious as to why you chose newegg. Their stuff usually seems horribly overpriced to me. I personally like tigerdirect.
I also personally like AMD better than Intel, and I like having a spiffy looking case if I’m putting that much money into a computer <_< But other than that, the stuff looks all right… you might want to check if that case comes with all (or any) fans, and fill all the fan ports.
Not you, but he said it. And I agree, I just know from experience that the large majority of other people won’t. And I also know many of those people are ignorant dicks who insult macs and their users every time they come up… And while we’re on the subject, it’s not that hard to scare the shit out of my computer. I mean, it has a 32 mb built in graphics card <_<
Sure, it has a 512 now, but still…
Eh, I just personally like AMD better for gaming computers.
…I would like to remind everyone that I’m much better with software than I am with hardware.
Edit: Hm… that figures. I bought my computer about two and a half years ago <_<
Maybe the tiger direct thing varies between products, but I know my computer was going to cost around $100 more from Newegg.
Mind you, I got a lot of my stuff when there were some kickass rebates on tiger direct <_<
Just looked at that diagram again… I take it that’s the official newegg diagram? <_< Usually there’s at least a fan on the front…
=/ if you think that’s all the airflow you’ll need, then go for it. But I know my computer needs more air flow than that, and it uses a lot less powerful stuff than you are using, specifically in the graphics card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16811119151
This is the case you want. It’s what I have, and I guarantee you, you will NEVER find a better case for the price. It’s simply amazing. About the same price, too, I think…? (Power supply included.)
Oooh, spiffeh… I still like mine better, but still nice. Can you put a fan between that air duct and the side panel, or not?
Yeah, you could probably due with that case and power supply. 390 watt (while seeming like a completely random number <_< I mean… when considering that 400 is really common…) is plenty, I think… I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t pull much more power than me, and 400 is plenty for me.
belive me it’s not in the same pricerange… 90 bucks vs. 25!
that would push me over my budget. i need a cheap case that gets the job done and has adequate cooling
Yeah, you can also just buy it without the power supply.
And, I don’t know what exactly power supply wattage affects, but I do know that my computer, which is pretty darn high-end (name a game, and I can play it on max specs), runs entirely fine with the power supply that came with that case.
PS
Uh… I just looked at my power supply, and it says 500W on it. I think newegg’s description is wrong… or they downgraded the power supply. Weird.
Get a small 10k RPM hard drive or a 4-8GB solid-state disk drive (which are really expensive but hopefully will eventually go down, haha) for what game or operating system you want to load the fastest, if that’s important to you.
For mass storage, though, I see slower hard drives as acceptable. I have a 160 GB IDE drive and a 80 GB higher-speed SATA drive.
According to benchmarking, AMD processors run way faster than Intel processors with the same hertz rating.
Anyway… see, that’s what I thought. I mean, about the AMD thing. But I haven’t checked up on it recently, so I thought maybe he knew something I didn’t. shrug
