help me build a computer

[bumpncarstereo 10+ year member]

I have some parts here like a monitor and stuff I might sell if your interested let me know it can save you on shipping I have a 17 and a 19 right now

i may pick up the 17 from you at some point, i need to talk to you again sometime about your catering as well.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

i just built a computer with a pentium dual core at the moment its overclocked to 3.5ghz, people have gotten it to over 4ghz easy

on gaming dont go to cheap on the video card ATLEAST 150$

i went with a overclocked geforce 6800gs and get 70fps in battlefield 2 everything on high

dont forget to add at least 100$ for an OS, if you want newegg has xp media center for 120$

pretty much what you need

case(gotta make is pretty //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif )

motherboard(compatible with processor, memory, video card, hdd)

Processor

video card

hard drive

ram

power supply

dvd/cd drives

windows

i would reccomend norton internet security also

get sata hard drive

ddr2 memory get 2 stick so you have dual channel

get pci x16 video card

in the future stuff is going to start going to multi cored processors i heard, and the dual core i have multi tasks great, so just think about it

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

sounds good just catch me on here or aim or just give a call. I also might have some comp parts as well.

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

yea i was mainly looking for a goo dmulti tasker whcih is what i heard pentiums do better, i spent 200 on my 6800gs compared to 300 and it does everything i need it to do for now, but i might upgrade in a year,

it dosent have to be norton i shoulda said just some anti spyware/virus/firewall thingy

my computer does everything i need it to do so its money well spent because i got a tv tuner so i use it to watch tv and like tivo on

 

[bumpncarstereo 10+ year member]

what is the specifics of using your computer as a tivo? is it the vivo option some grafics cards?

 

[bamaboy 5,000+ posts]

no just windows media center and a tv tuner, pause tv rewind fastford record the whole series of shows, couple different things

and i can use my xbox 360 as an extender and watch the shows i recorded listen to music view pics and you can watch live tv from the xbox as long as it is some how connected to the computer through router or what ever

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

whatever you do, make sure you get the AMD64 processor.

Opterons own 64's every day of the week

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

he said gaming?

Is that the only goal? I mean there arer many other things to take into account. Budget being the biggest. Is gaming all you will do and your very serious then A64 is a good start. An X2 to be more specific as well //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I can easily name all the current kick *** top shelf stuff like everyone else, but if they can't afford them all in one system, why bother?

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Opterons own 64's every day of the week

They are the same foundation and considering opterons are tied to a registered memory only architecture(read more cost) it is hardly beneficial to go this route.

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

They are the same foundation and considering opterons are tied to a registered memory only architecture(read more cost) it is hardly beneficial to go this route.

my opteron 165 booted 3ghz. running 2.75 daily @ 1.525v idles 22 load 40

tell me if a 64 can hit 2.75 24h stress prime stable @ 1.525v

perhaps by foundation you mean architecture?

how about you show me some proof/benches. and compare your thoughts/bias to hard evidence.

and if opterons aren't benefitial in certain circumstances, why do they exist?

Also, understand that socket 940 opterons DO require registered memory, whilst socket 939 opterons do not.

Socket 939 is basically an athlon 64 with higher binning, more cache, and better throughput.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

and if opterons aren't benefitial in certain circumstances, why do they exist? I never said they weren't beneficial in certain circumstances. For thoroughput intensive tasks they are a near neccesity. I said this particuliar circumstance it probably wouldn't be worth it. Gamers really aren't going to see a huge difference between the 2 chips. Sure they can get a bigger E-penis with a few hundred more marks in a synthetic bench, but real world gaming won't take advantage of this margin. Geeks like you and I need to realize that the average person doesn't need the penis extension we do. When one goes to buy a fast car they find a corvetteZ06 to be satisfactory for the money. Sure they could spend a lot more money and get something a little better, but hardly worth it when bang for buck comes in. This is why I mentioned budget earlier.

Also, understand that socket 940 opterons DO require registered memory, whilst socket 939 opterons do not. You have me here. I was under the impression opteron was still tied to 940 pin. My old school dual opteron setup is a 940 and I never thought AMD would release it under a non-server segment architecture. So if they are running 1xx opterons on 939 did they ditch the FX? If not, it is kind of redundant.

answers in quote.

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

http://www.alienware.com nuff said. i know you want to build it yourself, but these are sweet gaming machines