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I'm thinking of buying a new PC ( custom built ) and just want to point out that IM NOT BUILDING IT OR ANYTHING ELSE WHAT SO EVER ( except paying for it ) ill leave that to my bro.

So yeah, I need suggestions on a built PC, every single part and whatevers needed. I prefer to get them from Newegg.com, and I have a budget of 700~900USD. I think that this would help me and my bro decide what to get sooner, if you all could pitch in and help us of what you think is a descent gaming PC.If you decide to post, of what you guess would be your PC if you were on my budget, it would help if you included details and etc. on why you would get it and so forth. thanks :)

*NOTE : I dont need any moniters,keyboards,mouses or anything like that, just the pc :)
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To lazy to find links to each but..

CPU - Q6600
MoBo - P5q pro
ram - anything pc2 8500 (1066 MHz)
Video card - Evga 260 core 216 or radeon HD 4870
case - whatever you think looks nice, mid tower
hdd - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148288
HSF - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835106123
any random dvd drive..and..can't think of anything else

Built almost the same thing 3~ months ago for a friend, it's nice and overclocks incredibly.
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I'd get a better quad or an e8400 dual core, if you're only gaming then a dual core is better.
ram: g. skill, OCZ, corsair
the harddrive azilius mentioned.. I can't remember if it's 7200.11 or 7200.10, but one set had a lot of faults which required manual firmware upgrades.. I'd go for a western digital if you could.
that motherboard is nice, so are gigabyte ones.
I highly recommend the 4870 video card.


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Lol Lukefleming that PSU is overkill AND more. Should need a 600w at most.
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Mousetrap wrote:I'd get a better quad or an e8400 dual core, if you're only gaming then a dual core is better.
ram: g. skill, OCZ, corsair
the harddrive azilius mentioned.. I can't remember if it's 7200.11 or 7200.10, but one set had a lot of faults which required manual firmware upgrades.. I'd go for a western digital if you could.
that motherboard is nice, so are gigabyte ones.
I highly recommend the 4870 video card.

I have the HDD and it's worked flawlessly for 6~ months so far >.>
Reason I like the q66 is because it's so damn over clockable, have mine running at 3.6 on air easily..and yea, the 4870 is really nice, I went for the 260 and stepped up to a gtx 285 though because at the time it was cheaper.
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StealMySoda wrote:Lol Lukefleming that PSU is overkill AND more. Should need a 600w at most.

oh i forgot to say that it is a package deal with the case so you save like 50 bucks

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Thanks for the suggestions so far.

Had another question~ would more ram increase performance? I dont know much about computers ( only 13, dont have enough sources besides the internetz ) I play alot of games on my bro's cpu on max, and its pleasent. He has 8gigs of ram.
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if you were willing to pay about $50 more dollar you could get 8 gigs of ram and gaming performance would be noticeably better

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To be honest..Not really after a certain amount. I started with 1gb ram in my old single core PC and going from 1->2gb ram I sort of noticed a difference. Going from 4->8gb on my quad core I noticed absolutely nothing.
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Azilius wrote:To be honest..Not really after a certain amount. I started with 1gb ram in my old single core PC and going from 1->2gb ram I sort of noticed a difference. Going from 4->8gb on my quad core I noticed absolutely nothing.

Yeah I see your point there. I went from 1gb to 2.5, and i did notice some better things. I guess this would be like coming from 4-8gigs, but performance is already great. I'm not sure, I might just get 8 because I think it would be better for the future and last me longer. ( Also make me cocky for having 8 gigs :P )
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Well, the only way I've gone over 4 gb is running multiple virtual machines to open more than one SRO client at a time..and even with 3 of them I haven't hit 8gb. Tbh 4 is plenty for almost anything.
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