Hello, I have around 2000 dollars to spend on building a PC, what do you think is a good set up for a gaming PC. I have not been in the PC world for a long time now and I don't know what parts I should buy to get a good PC going, so please help. thanks
Lets see. My rig, which is a raidmax smilodon case ( comes with 500W power supply) 2 GB OCZ Elite 5400 RAM Intel Core 2 Quad 6600, and a n msi 8600GTS (which i highly reccomend) cost about 900. I can run Doom 3 on full, as well as half life 2 and fear at near max settings
Hello, I have around 2000 dollars to spend on building a PC, what do you think is a good set up for a gaming PC. I have not been in the PC world for a long time now and I don't know what parts I should buy to get a good PC going, so please help. thanksThe_Gamer81
You could wait for a few more months when the AMD Phenoms and GeForce 9xxx series are released. Or you could check on the many tech sites for PC shopping lists with a budget, PCStats has a good one for starters.
May I also add that you should shop on Newegg, they have great prices and are much better than buying from a retailer. IF you have 2000 bucks to just blow on a gaming pc, i'd say build something like a better version of my rig now (like, for instance, put an 8800GTX in it and get a really good mobo) and then upgrade to one of the better nvidia 9 series. Whether or not you will want to upgrade to the phenoms or not is a bit of a gamble, as athlon hasn't said a whole lot about them and we dont know if they'll beat the core 2s or not. Also keep in mind that the new Core 2 duo/quads are coming out soon (early next year) and that they're promising 16 mb and upwards of cache for the quads, and 8 for the duos...whether or not they will be the beasts like the originals remains to be seen.
yeah, I heard about the 8800GTX and all. how long do you think that will last me if I buy it in terms of years because technologies change so quickly?The_Gamer81
You could probably get away with that until about mid 2009ish, who knows really. The 7950s are still decent and those came out in 2006.
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