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KP9000

Posted on 01-16-09 09:03 AM

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I'm thinking of building a desktop machine using my income tax money. I'm also a little behind on technology nowadays, so I'm going to need some help... (I guess that's to be expected when you don't have a lot of money to buy shit.)

I'd like to have e-Sata, Blu-Ray, tons of USB ports, large harddrive capacity, a couple of kickass video cards.

I'm looking at blowing around ~$1000 on this project.

Don't worry about monitors, mice, keyboards, or any computer accessories unless they are otherwise recommended.

This would also be a good place to state your dream machine and the budget it's built on.

Ready... GO!

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Sukasa

Posted on 01-16-09 05:33 PM

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Well, I'd go for probably a fast Dual-Core machine, probably one of the new Intel chips. Unless you're really multitasking, I don't think quad-core would be much of a worthwhile investment. At least 4GBytes of RAM on Vista SP1 (SP2 by then?), and the motherboard should preferably have a high an FSB as possible- you're looking at an nVidia Chipset if you want to use SLI'd videocards as well. I'd recommend a 1TByte hard drive, perhaps two in RAID 0 for a 2 TByte drive setup, RAID 1 if you want safe data. As for sound, unless you're an absolute audiophile, even a last-generation card or onboard may work, I used a Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit card on my oldest Pentium and it worked great, despite now being a several-years-old card. Monitors you may or may not need to buy another monitor or a DVI->VGA converter depending on what inputs your monitor has.

As for my dream machine, I'm not sure waht budget I'd have, probably a $1.5K to $2K budget at the end of this summer or something.

KP9000

Posted on 01-17-09 07:20 PM

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I was looking at a Core i7 machine, but that's way out of my price range. It would be sweet though, 8 simultaneous threads at a time. Instead, I was going to try to get a Core 2 Quad. The RAM is less expensive, too. I can get this in a 1333MHz FSB flavor.

I was planning on 8GB of RAM, two nvidia video cards, 2TB of HDD space, and I usually don't worry about sound as much.

There's a lot of shit I don't know though, like the timing of the RAM, I see a lot of 4-4-4-12 stuff but I have no idea what the hell it means.

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