New Computer Contest
 

Okay my parents gave me a price range of $2200-$2500 for a new computer, with screen.

I have no idea about compatiables with PC hardware, so I am giving the subsim community the chance to design a new computer for me! Have fun, cool case would be nice, make her powerful! She is to be geared to gaming.

Must have:
at least:
500GB hard drive
4GB RAM
Quad-core processor
2x HD capable video cards
1x DVD-ROM (writable)
V8 or a V10 coolermaster for the CPU(i have a v8 that is 2weeks old, so i rather just use the same)
No smaller than a 24'' screen
Not loud!

Optional:
Blu-Ray player
Hi-Def sound card
HD screen
Mid or Full size tower
Water-Cooling


Good Luck, I need to order by July 10th.

Thank you,
Ivan

anything?!

:o I wish my parents had given me 2200 to 2500 dollars when I got this computer put together.

mine cost less than 2000.

oah well... heres my some specs. what you planning on running on it in the first place.

Antec p5k deluxe mother board.
intel e 8400
8800 gts 640 factory overclocked
samsung HD501LJ
3 gigs of ram.
just the cooler that came on the mother board.
BFG 650 w powerpack.
28 inch Hannspree monitor
antec 900 case
8800s might be old. but they still are quite good in my opinion.

Make sure you have a power supply that can handle current and future specs.
Your components should specify what they need as far as power.

Is your hard drive large enough, how about a 1 TB of HD space.

Ram, is 4 gigs enough looking ahead?

Anyway, my .02 at the moment :)

Running on it? you mean OS? XP of course, then Windows 7 :)
Its a college/gaming computer. SH3, SH4, PT-B: KotS, COD 5, World in Conflict, FSX, Arma I&II, and future games.

Is this what you mean?

How much was your computer?

Parts cost alot more back then... you can get a 8800 like mine for real cheap now...

Ill look up the prices...

Oah... vista 32 bit.:shifty:

the card... (cost 400 something when I got it, but it was on sale for 300 something.)
http://www.google.com/products/catal...tle#ps-sellers
Processor. (you might be able to get the e 8500, but there probably isnt much difference.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115037

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129021
case only cost 100 dollars now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131182
the motherboard.
http://www.bfgtech.com/bfgr650wpsu.aspx
powersupply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152052
DVD drive.
(I got the motherboard and CPU from newegg, came in good condition, in packing peanuts.)
Im guessing between 1,500 and 1,800 dollars.

http://www.hannspree.com/US/product_...=23792&c=25693
monitor.

NNNNooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! :o

With $2K, you can make yourself an Uber machine these days. I usually spend $2500+ on an upgrade. THings are so cheap these days though that this upgrade I just did cost less than $1000. Way less.

Of course I already have a nice case and a nice PSU and I have a few HD's I re-used, but the CPU, motherboard, video card, RAM that I bought, including a Blu-Ray burner (8x LG no less) still ran less than $1K this time around.

-S

If you want quiet and excellent cooling - with that budget - why not go liquid cooling? With the 2 HD capable linked cards, your going to be pushing major heat. If noise is a concern - liquid all the way.

i7 920 - $ 279 at Newegg though you can do better than this if you hunt around - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115202

X4 955 - $245 at Newegg. Not sure if you can do much better here since the overclockers are all over this CPU. It clocks to nearly 4GHz using the stock cooling that comes with the retail part. Add a custom cooling kit or water cooling to this and the sky's the limit it seems. Some idiot is posting online that he got one of these things running at 7 GHz. I'll have to read that one. I'll post a link to it when I get a second to find it again.

-S

If you haven't already seen my build thread, here's the link. With your budget, you should be able to afford something similiar to what I built.

Mine is still running great, haven't found a game it can't handle with ease!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=148837&page=2

As I said - Some idiot has this thing running at 7.1 GHz. I bet he gets some impressive benchmarks.

-S

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD...cked,7747.html

http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/screenshot/556849.png

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Windows XP Professional SP3 (Build 2600)
CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 4 Cores - 4 Threads
CPU PSN : AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor
CPU EXT : MMX(+) 3DNow!(+) SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4A x86-64
CPUID : F.4.2 / Extended : 10.4
CPU Cache : L1 : 4 x 64 / 4 x 64 KB - L2 : 4 x 512 KB
CPU Cache : L3 : 6144 KB
Core : Deneb (45 nm) / Stepping : RB-C2
Freq : 7127.85 MHz (250.01 * 28.5)

MB Brand : Asus
MB Model : M4A79T Deluxe
NB : AMD 790FX rev 00
SB : ATI SB750 rev 00

GPU Type : ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
GPU Clocks : Core 160 MHz / RAM 250 MHz
DirectX Version : 9.0c

RAM : 4096 MB DDR3 Dual Channel
RAM Speed : 833.7 MHz (3:10) @ 7-7-7-24
Slot 1 : 2048MB (PC3-10700H)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : Apacer Technology
Slot 2 : 2048MB (PC3-10700H)
Slot 2 Manufacturer : Apacer Technology

Thanks guys! Lots to look at!
So in with water cooling? or stay with a V8 or a new V10 COOLERMASTER?
AMD or INTEL?
ATI or NVIDA?