Where Are the Pc People

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

if you need hard drives the seagate barracudas with perpendicular technology is hard to beat.

These are some neat hard drives with some neat tech. Get them if ya can.

 

[liftedcj7on44s 10+ year member]

yep i ran 3 of them in RAID 0. man lemme tell you boot up in less than 10 seconds was nice!

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Go pick up a dell. Problem solved, warranties are a (comparative) snap.

Lawl ... Dell + Gaming + $1200 = Fail

ok you can do alot with 1200 nowadays. i would suggest a intel core 2 e6600, 2 gb of whichever ram you can get. for a video card i would go nvidia and say either a 8800gt or the new 9800gtx. if you need hard drives the seagate barracudas with perpendicular technology is hard to beat. for a motherboard i would get something with an nvidia chipset. Now i used to be heavy into computers, my last one was a amd dual core opeteron 165 overclocked to 2785mhz, 2gb ocz platinum memory, 3 320gb seagate barracudas in RAID 0, a 7800gt overclocked to gtx speeds. I am an AMD guy so i know what to get as far as amd stuff. Now that the core 2's are better than the AMD's then i would go that route but i havent built one or priced one out. but for 1200 you can do alot!!!

E6600 is like 1.5 years old, dude ... and not even that fast by today's standards ... Also, almost everything over 500 GB uses perpendicular recording now, not just the Seagates.
I'd get:

Core 2 Quad CPU (Q9450 if budget allows, otherwise Q6600)

4 GB of PC2-6400 memory

750 GB or 1 TB hard drive

8800 GTS 512 MB graphics card

Corsair HX520 power supply

P35 chipset motherboard (Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Abit, DFI, etc. are all good brands)

Case of your choice (recommend Lian-Li)

DVD Burner of your choice (recommend Lite-On)

Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

 

[liftedcj7on44s 10+ year member]

we got him a quad core, also a e6600 is a fast chip, just needs a little overclocking

 

[liftedcj7on44s 10+ year member]

ill let him post what i picked out, i picked out an intel board just for the fact that he ownt need sli, also he can run matrix raid in the future if needed.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

we got him a quad core, also a e6600 was a fast chip, just needs a lot of overclocking

Fixed ...

 

[liftedcj7on44s 10+ year member]

personally though if it were a pc for me then quad core wouldnt be involved, its not needed as there isnt any programs that can really utilize all 4 cores. BUT!! for the price you might as well.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Fixed ...

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I have built 3 computers.

First one used a 486 processor.

Second one was a 266 Mhz processor.

The thrid one was a super fast 1.0 Ghz processor... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

personally though if it were a pc for me then quad core wouldnt be involved, its not needed as there isnt any programs that can really utilize all 4 cores. BUT!! for the price you might as well.

... Now ... You won't be singing the same tune a year or two from now ...
If I have a choice between a quad core and a dual core, I'd rather spend the extra little bit of money to get the quad as it will greatly extend the usable life of the computer.

 

[Ferendon 10+ year member]

Wow. Advice on anything but car audio is horrible up in this *****. I see a few snipits of truth, the rest is bullshit.

 

[TheFiverMan 10+ year member]

should i juss wait on the nehalem intel 45nm quad core

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Wow. Advice on anything but car audio is horrible up in this *****. I see a few snipits of truth, the rest is bullshit.

Where's your advice ?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

i see nothing wrong with the advice given here except the "windows 64 bit" suggestion