Building a gaming computer

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

My mom was going to buy my brother an Alienware computer for Christmas, but she was going to buy it for $1,500, it's $100 shipping and $100 tax. Without flaming me and my family and saying how you only get $100 for Christmas, it's not common for a gift of this size... but his computer took a crap and he games in his free time.

With that said, can you guys recommend some components? I want a cool *** case for him and I want it to be reliable.

Your thoughts?

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[j3bus2k3 5,000+ posts]

I dont know too much about building computers but looking through new-egg last year while my roommate was building his, it got real expensive, really quick for the best gear.

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

newegg.com

zipzoomfly.com

tigerdirect.com

xoxide.com

frozencpu.com

voyeurmods.com

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[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

Yeah, looking to spend ~$1,200 or so at Newegg

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, looking to spend ~$1,200 or so at Newegg

hmmmmm

 

[DjiNN 10+ year member]

thats not hard ... to do ..

Case : P180 http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4843800 70$ A/R

OR

Case : Centurion 30$ A/R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119106

Video Card : 8800GTS $382 (Add to cart to see discount)

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=a0775615

DVD-RW : NEC $35

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152076

HD : Seagate 320GB $85 (Use Google Checkout for $20 off)

http://www.buy.com/prod/Seagate_Barracuda_Hard_Drive_320GB_7200_10_SATA_ULTRA_ATA_100/q/loc/101/202557401.html?******

Monitor Flat Panel : ViewSonic Q19WB $150 A/R ($20 off using Google checkout)

http://www.buy.com/prod/ViewSonic_Q19wb_Black_19_5ms_Widescreen_LCD_Monitor_Q19WB/q/loc/61905/203130580.html

Power Supply : Antec Trio $115 A/R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817371001

Motherboard : MSI K9N Platinum $90 A/R

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130049

Memory aka Ram : OCZ Platinum 2GB $220

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227089

CPU : AMD Opteron 1210 $175

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819105015

 

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

I am buying two eVGA 7600GT's, an AMD FX-55 processor, a couple gigs of Corsair RAM, finding a new motherboard, and just reusing my case, fans, power supply, and CD/DVD drives. I'm looking to just ramp up my old computer for like... $500. It should be good for another couple years in terms of game-ability.

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

http://www.cyberpowerinc.com

 

[DjiNN 10+ year member]

or http://www.ibuypower.com

 

[.::DuD3::. 10+ year member]

it can get expensive, i spent over $1700 a couple months ago on mine.

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

Those Intel systems are beasts!!! On that new nVidia motherboard...

with the 880 GTS video card

1 gig ram

whatever hard drive

 

[dak0ta_g33k 10+ year member]

or http://www.ibuypower.com

+1 for them. good compromise in components bang for buck.