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| Author: | [SpA]ha11elujaz0rz [ 30 Oct 2008, 20:08 ] |
| Post subject: | A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
I need a pc building(in theory not RL) but all post what hardware you would put together and estimated price... I only need: CPU Cooler Case Cables MOBO PSU HD DVD/CD Drives RAM MAX PRICE = 500 , but if you can do better for cheaper the better  I already have mouse/keyboard/flat screen,GFX Card (880GTS) Do your best , thanks
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| Author: | [SpA]YellowGoudvis [ 30 Oct 2008, 21:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
let the fanboy mayhem begin |
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| Author: | [SpA]SaintK [ 30 Oct 2008, 22:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
[SpA]YellowGoudvis wrote: let the fanboy mayhem begin
Good that you bring it up, i nearly forgot to reply! ATI! |
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| Author: | [SpA]Bucky [ 31 Oct 2008, 12:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
 Is this in place? It is, right? |
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| Author: | [SpA]ha11elujaz0rz [ 31 Oct 2008, 15:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
No one takes me seriously... fuckers. |
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| Author: | Lim-Dul [ 31 Oct 2008, 15:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
The max price is 500 Pounds or 500 Euros? Anyways - the most important thing you'll need advice with is the CPU and the MoBo - all the other things are usually simply better if they are more expensive so you don't need any buying guidelines beyond that. OK, RAM could be important if you want to overclock but the only thing you should know about that is that Kingston is only good for budget-priced RAM, not the top-performing one and Geil, the once-king(ston? :-D) of high performance RAM dropped to unimaginable shittyness, go for OCZ or Patriot instead. You might even consider the Polish Goodram (LOL at the name) - I'm not even joking, because they mostly use one design for all models, only frequency and latency locked (because it's cheaper), their RAM has quite epic overclocking capabilities (although you have to confirm that by reading some recent reviews). Cooler - any will do if you don't want to overclock. Case - any will do if you don't want to overclock. Cables - oh, c'mon, you don't need advice here unless you want to have a UV cathode in your case and use UV-active cables (which I did once when I had a plexiglas casing - it looked gay :-D) PSU - IMHO there's no need to go with epic power levels (like 1000W), it's better to buy one in the reasonable 500-600W range but manufactured by a trust-worthy company HD - nowadays HDDs are cheap and so close performance-wise that I wouldn't give that much thought. I've been using Western Digital drives for several years now and I changed my computer faster than them breaking. I only recall that Seagate dropped its once very good quality a while ago - outsourcing or something like that, whatever DVD-R - I always go for NEC and there's a reason for that - NEC uses glass lenses for their lasers while all (or most) other companies use plastic lenses. There might be no difference, there might be one after a while - I don't care, DVD-R drives are cheap anyway so why not go with the best components? :-D So, now to the serious stuff: CPU - buy the most expensive one you can afford by Intel OR if you realize that you can't go for the upper 1/3rd of processors you might take a CPU by AMD but I don't think this is the right moment to invest in AMD, especially since they have plans of catching up to Intel soon... This is sound advice if you DON'T plan on overclocking. If you do, you should take the CHEAPEST (slowest) model with the same cache, same manufacturing process (e.g. 45 nm) and simply overclock it to the same speed (or higher) than the more expensive models. MoBo - any MoBo that fits your processor produced by Asus, I'm a bit of a fanboy here but that's because I had really, REALLY bad experiences with e.g. Abit. I don't know where Gigabyte is currently standing but they were producing decent MoBos in the past. Chipset? You choose - I wouldn't worry too much, both Nvidia's and Intel's chipsets perform well and the only difference you might spot is if you tried running your GPU in SLi/Crossfire mode or if you overclocked everything heavily. There you go - I hope I helped you a bit even though, as you noticed, I don't give the kind of "Buy XXX model YYY" advice since it's your money after all and different shops might sell different components for different prices. When you find something that looks alright read up some reviews on the internet to confirm/disprove your positive attitude. If they're alright, go with it, if they're bad, choose another model in the same price range - rinse and repeat. |
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| Author: | [SpA]Blackhawk [ 31 Oct 2008, 15:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
What Lim said +1 altough I'd choose Samsung and not WD... 
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| Author: | Lim-Dul [ 31 Oct 2008, 15:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Yeah, like I said, it doesn't really matter for HDDs - personal choice or getting the cheapest one because of a special sale of one company's products or something. The only advice on my side would be to avoid Seagate like I wrote before. Again, I'm sure that there are people on the forums who had good experiences with Seagate HDDs or are even using one right now but I'm simply reflecting the collected "internet opinions" (and we all know that the internet is serious business! :-D). |
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| Author: | [SpA]Blackhawk [ 31 Oct 2008, 16:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Yeah... my last part wasn't meant that serious. 
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| Author: | [SpA]Minimoose! [ 31 Oct 2008, 20:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
[SpA]Lim-Dul wrote: Yeah, like I said, it doesn't really matter for HDDs - personal choice or getting the cheapest one because of a special sale of one company's products or something. The only advice on my side would be to avoid Seagate like I wrote before. Again, I'm sure that there are people on the forums who had good experiences with Seagate HDDs or are even using one right now but I'm simply reflecting the collected "internet opinions" (and we all know that the internet is serious business!
In the good old days I had a 160gb Seagate and it was fine, but I haven't used any newer models. I'm not even sure what HDD brands I'm using ).
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| Author: | [SpA]Spikespiegel [ 01 Nov 2008, 13:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
500 Euro is IMHO not enough. You can get a really good QC cpu's from Intel for around 200 Euros, which is really worth investing in. The graphics card doesn't have to be that expensive, just make sure it is at least 256mb ram (you don't need a 512mb ram graphics card to run the new games) and that it has at least shader 3.0 support. I would recommend the ATI HD 38xx series, which isavailable at around 125 Euros. |
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| Author: | [SpA]Blackhawk [ 01 Nov 2008, 13:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Quote: I already have mouse/keyboard/flat screen,GFX Card (880GTS)
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| Author: | Greasy_greabo [ 01 Nov 2008, 15:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
www.crystech.co.uk Check the catalogue, then customise+buy you can get a hot ass pc for about £300 |
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| Author: | dckjns [ 01 Nov 2008, 19:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
A competition usually involves a prize, hmm? |
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| Author: | Bartg [ 02 Nov 2008, 17:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Quote: Good that you bring it up, i nearly forgot to reply!
ATI is shit, NVIDIA FTW !
ATI! |
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| Author: | [SpA]Bucky [ 03 Nov 2008, 12:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
I don't wanna be rude Jazorz, but judged by the amount of noobness and constant fokkin up stuff on and for your computer, I really think you'd be best of with buying a sealed computer. Alienware or Dell could be an option there. If you really want to take the time to get to know things of computers, you could go for buying parts. But do search for things on google yourself. As far as I've seen, you're not really good in finding stuff out for yourself and end up in irc asking anyone who knows something about computers. Go search some web vendors of computer hardware or a reseller in your neigbourhood (do keep in mind that as soon as they physically have a shop, you'll be paying extra for your hardware) and look on those sites what stuff you could buy. Then if you found out some names and types, go search reviews on the net. Benchmarks, reviews, etc. The whole nine yards. This is by far the best to learn about hardware, what to look for, what to keep in mind, how things are made and what is hot nowadays and what brands are the best, where brands do make a differ and where they don't, etc. GL m8. |
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| Author: | Lim-Dul [ 03 Nov 2008, 14:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Ha, ha - yet again Bucky writes what no one else dared to say. :-D |
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| Author: | [SpA]ha11elujaz0rz [ 03 Nov 2008, 17:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
I think the only reason my comp has been breaking soo much lately is my HD (I think) because alot of stuff i download , for whatever reason wont run because its corrupt. I.E - Today i downloaded the CODWAW and when i run it , says "Zip Damaged: file blah/blah/blah BAD CRC, possible cause File Transfer error" Anyone have ideas how i could confirm my theory before i go and buy a new HD ? |
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| Author: | [SpA]Blackhawk [ 03 Nov 2008, 17:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Then get a f***ing new disk... they are as cheap as hell nowadays... |
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| Author: | [SpA]ha11elujaz0rz [ 03 Nov 2008, 17:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Dont wanna buy new hd if im building new comp |
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| Author: | [SpA]SaintK [ 03 Nov 2008, 18:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
U have variouse harddisk testing tools which can excactly tell you the current state of your harddisk. I dont know any by head atm, but google for it, and u'll find em! |
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| Author: | [SpA]Blackhawk [ 03 Nov 2008, 18:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
[SpA]SaintK wrote: I dont know any by head atm, but google for it, and u'll find em!
Hint: Search for something like "hdd smart tool" to read out the S.M.A.R.T. (why does this remind me of H.A.R.M. and F.O.W.L.) data of your disk.
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| Author: | [SpA]ha11elujaz0rz [ 03 Nov 2008, 20:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A little competition..... for the hardware gurus |
Chers blackie , right downloaded the smart HD tool and it says nothing wrong with hd , but memtest showed that one of my sticks is faulty , so ive removed the faulty stick and still problems with steam games |
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