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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 .....

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

rainbow i warned you about your sig, and you chose to ignore it, thus leaving me no choice but to take action

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

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.

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

Cheers...