New Machine

Twisted · Post by **Twisted** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:50 pm

Well i think the time has come to get a new machine... Seeing as i wasnt planing on this and just went and splurged myself resently on some goodies i only have a max of 1000 - 1100 AUS for a new computer, I am still looking around and i have a good idea of what i need/ want just thought you guys might have some good pointers or opinions...

also, monitor included

so there goes about 300 .....

rainbowgame1 · Post by **rainbowgame1** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:09 pm

the pirce of computer is about 400 USD in China, and how much in your country?

Key-J · Post by **Key-J** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:12 pm

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Twisted · Post by **Twisted** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:35 am

rainbowgame1 wrote:the pirce of computer is about 400 USD in China, and how much in your country?

Australia

Anything half reasonable is like 1k, u can easily spend 800 on the graphics card alone :cry:

desolator144 · Post by **desolator144** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:26 pm

I dunno anything about your currency equivalencies but the cheapest decent computer you could get as far as I know is:
a 17" Acer monitor or cheaper if U can find - $240 USD
computer with a gigabyte or asus motherboard with 5.1 sound and ethernet on the motherboard to save tons of money and with at least one fast pci-express slot. I'd suggest a low end dual core AMD X2 like a 3800+ or the one higher model. Either socket AM2 or 939 is fine, each are about the same price but since 939 is older, the processors are a hair cheaper and so are the motherboard and there's almost no difference in performance. 1 GB of DDR ram (of DDR2 for socket AM2) may actually be cheaper in 1 stick than in 2 of 512 so check both options out. Get whatever size hard drive you want but whatever motherboard you get will almost definitely take SATA drives. I actually have 120, 160, and 300 GB SATA drives in mine hehehe

And if you really want to save money, get a do it all drive that can read and write CDs and DVDs otherwise I always prefer having a reader only DVD/CD ROM drive seperate from a writer cuz I think writer ones are slower. And what would a computer be without a Coolermaster Centurion Case with a window and some cold cathode neons lol

Oh yeah and the graphics card! So your motherboard should have a pci-e slot so I'd suggest a Geforce 6 series card. They're around $150 USD now I think. My Nvidia BFG 6600GT is fast enough to run anything and it's pretty much $160 anywhere now. You could also probably go with a couple models down from that and have pretty good performance. Nvidia 7 series are too expensive and not good enough for the price if ya ask me

I just had a computer built for a customer of mine with all the above specs except no monitor and 512 MB of RAM for $575 USD.

Twisted · Post by **Twisted** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:52 am

Thanks for the help buddy, I will most defintly look into it!!

Cheers...