Custom PCs

[Anthiena]

I've started looking around the net for building a nice PC for myself and so far, I've found www.gamepc.com. The charges for building them seems a bit excessive ($200 American for barebones, no OS system build) though I could possibly get Igor to do it himself, since he used to piece together Sun computers once upon a time. Here is the stuff I chose off of it. Some places, I just put what they are (like the optical drive)

"Model": Titan CX2/200

CPU: AMD Opteron 1212 (2.0 Ghz)
CPU Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Motherboard: MSI K9N Neo-F nVidia nForce 500 ATX
Memory: Corsair XMS DDR2-800 2GB EPP Twinpack (2 of these)
Hard Drive 1/2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160 GB 7200 RPM OEM
Floppy drive/Memory reader: Mitsumi 7-in-1
Optical Drive: Sony DVD-rom 16X
Video Card: Asus Gforce 7600 GS PCIe 512 MeG
Case: Chenbro RM12400 ATX 1U w/ 300w PSU
Power supply: Seasonic S12-HT 550w
OS: WinXP Home


...a few places, I got the cheapest thing (or nearly so) and I don't even know if what I picked will even work together... I think I'll also get a monitor, maybe a good keyboard, I don't know...

...but all of that put together barebones, I install the OS, is 1,965.00 American dollars. I don't even know if I'm getting a good price...

What do you think?

[Cain Highwind]

Wow! $2000 for all that? I just got mine off IBuypower with specs far superior to that for about 1500. Of course, shipping could be a factor, but still. My specs that I got were

-Eagletech Dragon Aluminium Gaming Tower Case (Blue)
-XION SuperNova 600W Power Supply
-Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6750 (2x 2.66GHz/4MB L2 Cache/1333FSB)
-Extreme-Performance INTEL CPU Cooling Fan System Kit
-eVGA NForce 680i SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0 Dual PCI-E MB
-2 Gigs of RAM
-NVidia 8800 GTS with 320 MB of RAM
-200 GB HD
-Windows XP Home

My only complaint is they must've messed something up with the front ports as the front mic port doesn't seem to work, everything else is GREAT!

[darkViVi]

Not too bad but you could have had a better proc for all that money, I built my own last spring

Well sorta.. Here's what I got.

AMD 3600+ X2 Dual Core overclocked to 2,5 GHz
2GB RAM
ECS Nforce 4 chipset
Gigabyte 8600GT 512MB mem(?)
450GB hard drive space
2 monitors
Zalman cooling and pre-mod case
XP Pro and Vista Ultimate (Vista not installed because it borked itself)
**EDIT:10 USB ports, anyone? **

All of this for less than 1000$ in NORWAY! Beat that price
My PC beats computers with retail prices at twice of that from any computer store over here. I can run any game on full but the 8600GT doesn't like high resolutions.

[ultima_trev]

For 2,000 that is crap. With 2,000, you should be able to get at least be able to get a PC equipped a Core 2 Duo E6850, Intel P35 mobo, 2GB Corsair Dominator memory, and a GeForce 8800 GTX GPU.