Help with my future GAMING SYSTEM
 

hey... i just need sum input... im going to be buying a gaming computer soon here r da specs...

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ HyperTransport Technology / 1GB DDR / 160GB SATA / nVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB 8X AGP /Gigabyte's K8Npro nForce3 MOBO/500watt power supply/overclocking fan control center includes 3 fans. ALL FOR GRAND TOTAL= 1,934.04 USD

here r my qwestions
1)Do you think it worth that much, is it a good price?
2)will it be able to handel hard core gaming..such as bf2 halo cs...ect
3)are the system specs good, any thing to add? or change

comments: im not shure about the Mobo its not "sli" just to add that.

plz people i need ALL UR INPUT/ADVICE/THOUGHTS.

thnx :cya:

-GanZo-

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No.

Did you put this together or is it premade? If the latter you should just get the individual components and put it together yourself, for a much lesser price at that.

Also, as far as AMD goes go with either the Venice or San Diego cores. Do they make 3400's in the latest cores? I'm not sure, but I would guess no. Either go with the 3500 venice, or 3700 san diego (I got this one, it's nice). Don't go with an agp video card either because now the latest thing is PCI Express so it's better to go with that instead.

From the looks of it, what you selected looks too pricy for what it is.

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moved to tech discussion

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yes it a premade comp. as for the cpu it is a "64 3400+ / 2.40GHz" the problem is that i need a good gaming comp now i dont have time to build it. and honestly im lazy :uhoh: . its has a nice case looks decent. any other comments/qwestion. neeed ur guys help!

thnx ganzo

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Its not worth that much, if you dont want to save loads of $$$ and build it yourself then wait for one of these guys to give you a half decent cheap website.

Also it could also be socket 754 which isnt the newest. You want socket 939.

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heres what I put together for you:

DFI LanParty UT nF4-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4-4X ATX AMD Motherboard $118.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813136159

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor $268.01
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103539

CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory $198.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145522

BFG Tech BFGR78256GTOC Geforce 7800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI Express x16 Video Card $379.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143037

Maxtor MaXLine III 7L250S0 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive $102.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144185

ASPIRE X-Navigator ATXA8NW-AL/500 Silver/Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply $144.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144089

SONY Beige 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 4X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner $38.99 (might be able to get one in black if you want)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827131257

total: $1248 USD

much better computer at much lower price.

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could u guys find any thing that was premade

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why not put one together yourself?

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He said he's to lazy. Listen to what people tell you, no need to question people all the time.

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I'm trying to save him some money k? With premade systems you pay a TREMENDOUS amount of money just on the brand name, and for a good gaming system for what he wants could cost hundreds of dollars more than what he could spend if he made it himself. Think of it this way: he spends 1200 on a better gaming system than what he could have gotten for 2000, and he could use that 800 he saved on something like a xbox360 or an ipod, or maybe a car, whatever.

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3 questions:

Can you read
can you plug a wall socket plug im
can you assemble legos?

If you said yes to any of them you can build a PC!

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http://www.cyberpowerinc.com/ well worth the money.

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i would go PCI express, this is the way technology is moving, and its very upgrade freindly. one thing they taught me in ITT, is to make your network, or PC, expandable, by all and any means.

1 all except the 6800 GT, the x800 xl and x800 xt pe can be found cheaper, there much better in all except one game.

2 yes it will handle halo, if for some reason you think halo is hardcore, whatever, it will handle it.

3 again the x800's are better in about all games except doom3. lots of games out comming out on the d3 engine, like PREY and quake 4. if you really want to play those, than an x850 xt pe would be best. again, PCI-E, there cards are cheaper most of the time anyway.

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If I were you, this is what I would do. I would get off my lazy butt (figuratively) and do my research!!! Oh wait, nvm, I already did that...:rolleyes:

http://www.newegg.com/

or if you must, http://www.tigerdirect.com/

(NewEgg is king!!!)

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2 yes it will handle halo, if for some reason you think halo is hardcore, whatever, it will handle it.[/quote]

while halo is not "harecore" it is a killer on Pc's I went though 3 graphics cards to run it smoothly. The Fx59xx and 9800 series struggled with it when it came out.

As for the debate of ATI vs Nvida, it depends on the site your reading from. ATi does better in Hl2 and Far cry while nivda does better in doom and unlear 3 engine based games. In other games the speed differnces are so minute they are the same.

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I could run Halo on a GeForce 4. It was touched up after the port from the Xbox, which uses a GeForce 4, but the engine wasn't rewritten. Only the textures were changed, so more RAM would be sufficient. Since most modern day PCs have more RAM than Xboxes, it should work fine.

Hey, if HL2 runs fine on a GeForce 4, Halo should.

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the engine is poorly compiled and optimized. typical M$. a good game though.
no single company is "king" cheif value and zipzoomfly always has better prices than newegg. newegg has everything though, which is really good. www.pricewatch.com is really the best place to search for prices. anyone can find anything extremly low here.
as for this, your completly right. its jsut that ATI has better dx9 support, and benches higher in dx9 games and engines, lots of things detirmine frame rate other than this ofcourse. DooM 3 benched higher for nvidia because the engine was optimized and restructured/rebuilt when the nv40 core was announced. im not completly sure if nvidia worked with ID to do this. the x-ray is a dx9 engine that will favor nvidia, very rare, but nvidia is partner to GSC and the game STALKER is getting some extra eye candy for 7800's. ATI will preform fine in the game, but be just behind. how far is unsure until the game, and the x1800 xt pe is released.

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THIS is the standard of today and what I bought a few weeks back. Just one exception already: GeForce 6600/6800 GT with 256 megs of RAM. That kind of PC should last for the next 6 or 7 years, or so I hope. ;)