Like I tell everyone. Get a P35 mobo. That mobo will be useless by next year. 850w PSU is overkill unless you plan to SLI your GTS. What kind of PSU is it??? Were are you getting this from???
It won't let me change my motherboard. The 850W power supply is from Velocity Micro, the site I'm ordering it from. I don't plan to do SLI, will 500W be enough?
It won't let me change my motherboard. The 850W power supply is from Velocity Micro, the site I'm ordering it from. I don't plan to do SLI, will 500W be enough?Veritas_Vincit
I would recommend the Corsair 520, or maybe one of OCZ's power supplies.
I'm not building it on my own, I'm ordering it from a site, so 2400 seems reasonable. And if Norton is crap, can you recommend me something that isn't?
It won't let me change my motherboard. The 850W power supply is from Velocity Micro, the site I'm ordering it from. I don't plan to do SLI, will 500W be enough?Veritas_Vincit
so im guessing that this is a prebuilt and your not building it yourself??? Is that right??? and why???
[QUOTE="Veritas_Vincit"]It won't let me change my motherboard. The 850W power supply is from Velocity Micro, the site I'm ordering it from. I don't plan to do SLI, will 500W be enough?Killfox
so im guessing that this is a prebuilt and your not building it yourself??? Is that right??? and why???
Because I don't know a lot about computers, and my dad doesn't trust me to not screw up on building it myself.
building a PC is very easy. you can just asj any of us if you need help. I built my frst Pc last year and i didnt find anything to hard about it. Putting it together was pretty self explanatory. The biggest hassle is getting what you want off your old HDD and putting it on your new HDD.
[QUOTE="Veritas_Vincit"]It won't let me get a Corsair 520, all it has is a Velocity Micro 500. If you guys can find me a better site, I'd be glad to comply.Killfox
Still havent answered my question. Are you building it or are you buying it prebuilt???
[QUOTE="Veritas_Vincit"]It won't let me get a Corsair 520, all it has is a Velocity Micro 500. If you guys can find me a better site, I'd be glad to comply.Evz0rz
im not too much of a fan of it but ive heard IBuyPower.com is okay and you should get that comp for much cheaper
Yeah. I would go with them if you really dont want to build it yourself.
obviously you don't have the knowledge to build a pc. but if your stacking that cash i really recommend you build it. the hardest thing is to put the fan on the cpu and thats not hard :) but then again, if everyone was smart and build pc's like us. dell and otehr big pc companies would go outta bussiness.
I'm not building it on my own, I'm ordering it from a site, so 2400 seems reasonable. And if Norton is crap, can you recommend me something that isn't?Veritas_Vincit
well for that price your self owning your self. You would have to be almost insane to buy a pre-built nowadays (usually, some times I see deals on different sites that are exceptions).
here....go here and put the specs you have in your original post....i did but it just reset when i linked it so youll have to do it yourself...it came out to $1,753..and you could change some things to make it cheaper but see just with that you save around $700
ill also mention, youre getting a sound card that can't be taken full advantage of by vista. new sound cards havn't come out yet as far as i know. but yeah. thats a pretty expensive piece of silicon your paying for
Ok, since the sound card I was thinking of didn't really work for Vista, I've downgraded to onboard audio. The website I'm using is Velocity Micro, if everyone thinks it's so expensive, where do you think I can find a cheaper one, without sacrificing quality for price?
if you're not doing anything higher than 2.1 you can probably settle for onboard. otherwise im sure you can find some cheap little 5.1/7.1 card for like $20 or less
The X-Fi XtremeAudio is a mislabeled POS that lacks the EMU20K1. Go get an X-Fi XtremeMusic or better-that way, you can use ALchemy and run your DirectSound games with hardware sound acceleration under Vista. (OpenAL games don't need ALchemy, fortunately, and it's also the reason why ALchemy works in the first place-it's just a DirectSound-to-OpenAL wrapper.) Oh, and you are downright getting RIPPED OFF if that system costs 2,400 US$. I could build a much better one for just 2,000 US$, with a Q6600(that I could change to a E6850 if I were insane enough to give up two cores), 2 GB of DDR2-1066, a GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB, a Creative SB X-Fi Fatal1ty Champion(or Auzentech Prelude instead if that hits the market), a P35 mobo(hopefully X38 instead when it debuts), a 500 GB 7,200 RPM SATA hard drive, and Windows Vista Ultimate. Only catch is, I'm going with a 700W or so PSU instead(which may already be way more than I need), and I'm just ordering the PC itself, no monitor, speakers, or anything else. (Still, 400 US$ left over from your original budget can easily net you a nice display and speakers.) Hopefully, there's a pre-built dealer out there that'll give you better parts for the money somewhere...
sorry dude was out working for some cash, we all need money for new computers lol. yeah norton is a resource hog, get nod32 its a great antivirus program. also you probably have made up your mind but really dont buy pre built. just buy all the parts and get someone to build it for you for $50-100. you save lots of money which can be spent on better hardware. cause i'm getting the same stuff but for $1400, canadian after taxes. so tell your dad its way better to assemble yourself, you have lots of internet geeks to help you out or you could just go to someone to build your computer.
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