Garnished
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| 12 Jul 2012 10:11 AM |
I am going for performance and graphics. Also lots of memo. What should I get. 1. What Video Card? 2. What hardrive? 3. What monitor? 4. What graphic card? 5. What Motherboard? 6. What Speakers( I like music )? -Shell/Java/AHK Master.- |
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| 12 Jul 2012 10:16 AM |
"What Video card?"
"What graphic card?"
They are both the same thing. |
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Avolition
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| 12 Jul 2012 10:27 AM |
Tell me your budget and I can give you a good build.
1. If you are a hardcore gamer, go for a $200-$500 NVIDIA card. If you are a hacker who likes bruteforcing and bitcoin mining, get an AMD card.
2. 1 TB refurbished hard drives go for $80 on newegg. Also, I'd get a $100 128GB SSD.
3. This totally depends on preference.
4. See 'video card'
5. I got the ASRock Z77 recently and it's pretty good. It's like $180.
6. See #3
You're also missing things like processor and power supply... I recommend you go get a list of all the parts you need. |
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Garnished
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| 12 Jul 2012 10:29 AM |
@Avolition 600$ is what I'm spending. Trying to get discounts.
-Shell/Java/AHK Master.- |
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:29 AM |
You can get cheap ATI HD 6000 series cards on eBay.
Everything else apart from the motherboard and processor is fairly cheap. Get the mobo and processor as a bundle to save lots of money. |
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Garnished
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:29 AM |
^ Thanks.
-Shell/Java/AHK/HTML Master.- |
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Jaccob
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:37 AM |
| With $600 Your most likely not going to get close to a high-end computer. :/ |
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:39 AM |
^ Spent about 400 in dollars. I wouldn't call it high-end but it is very good. |
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sammye88
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:42 AM |
| I now everything about computers Pm me for questions! |
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:43 AM |
| @Sammy - Because I don't doubt you or anything. |
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Garnished
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| 12 Jul 2012 11:57 AM |
Actually my mom said she is putting in 100$ + I found 10$ outside so now, 710$.
-Shell/Java/AHK/HTML Master.- |
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| 12 Jul 2012 07:10 PM |
"1 TB refurbished hard drives"
Why would you need 1 TB there's like no point at all. I have 750GB and only used 150GB of it even though I have many programs installed...And lot's and lot's of random recorded videos which each are probably about 696 MB. |
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NanoSpace
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| 12 Jul 2012 07:35 PM |
@Vit
My Recycle Bin can easily go up to 8 GB |
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| 12 Jul 2012 08:37 PM |
| If you ever manage to use more than 100 GB, you're incredibly good at wasting space. |
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LocalChum
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| 12 Jul 2012 09:11 PM |
@Avo
Finally, someone who recommends a SSD and not one of those laggy spinning magnetic thingies. |
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| 12 Jul 2012 09:54 PM |
>If you ever manage to use more than 100 GB, you're incredibly good at wasting space. >If you ever manage to use more than 100GB (excluding media such as videos/music), you're incredibly good at wasting space.
FTFY.
I've got 730GB of media on an external HDD. My main linux partition has around 100GB of non media files. |
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Avolition
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| 12 Jul 2012 10:25 PM |
@Vit
I agree, sort of. It wasn't until after I bought an external hard drive that I created a Steam account and started buying all sorts of space-expensive games. If you're a hardcore gamer, you'll use up lots of space. Also, if you're still stuck in the 2008 era and you don't store your music on the cloud (<3 grooveshark), lots of people have hefty iTunes libraries. Oh, and don't even get me started on those who have families who rely on them to store the family albums on their computers... |
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| 13 Jul 2012 07:17 AM |
"My Recycle Bin can easily go up to 8 GB"
*Crazy face*
HOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"families who rely on them to store the family albums on their computers..."
I understand that...If it's a shared computer you get 1TB...But if your by yourself and not really going to do LIKE Everything on the computer you don't really need it. I mean if your going to find a cheap one that's okey...JUST DON'T ABUSE THAT SSD...THEY SO COOL! |
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zxv12
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| 13 Jul 2012 08:01 AM |
Soon, I'll get my father's computer (since he's assembling a new one).
It has
[i think] an Nvidia 250 or something graphics card 4 250gb hard drives [idk again] An i7 CPU @ 2.8 GHz [idk again] 16gb of DDR3 RAM @ 1333mhz
wat shall I do with it wat OS how should I format my hard drives and stuff!!1
Kthx
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zxv12
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| 13 Jul 2012 08:04 AM |
| Oh and one of the hard drives fails sometimes :/ |
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| 13 Jul 2012 08:53 AM |
1. What Video Card? *AMD if you want 3 screens *NVIDIA if you go for the rly good latest ones but i think AMD has better price-value ratio so if you dont want an uber GPU go for AMD i guess? *I think games use the nvidia brand thingies like CUDA and PhysX more than what AMD has (idk, both have OpenCL but i think games prefer CUDA)
2. What hardrive? *SSD if you can pay for one *some HDD with good speed, good cache and high response times (check dem from de HDD's manufacturer site or sumtin)
3. What monitor? *Idk, big one?
4. What graphic card? *U NOOB THATS SAME AS VIDEO CARD GO AWAY
5. What Motherboard? *One with right socket for processor, and UEFI bios-replacement or whatever it is is nice. And enuf ports for stoof
6. What Speakers( I like music )? *U NOOB UR MONITOR WILL HAVE TINY SPEKKER IN IT YOU DONT NEED DIS
7.Processor *Intel unless you use programs that can make use of AMD's 8 cores i think (idk, video/whatever editing, modeling?) *If ur poor and cant afford 8 core i think intel is better even tho it has less GHz u nob *Make sure it has mucho cache k
8.PSU *one wit 80+ certificoot and trusted brand and liek 500+ W or 600+ W if u take uberGPU
9.Sound card *U DONT NEED SOUND CARD NUB THEY USELESS
10.Case *One wit good ariflows and dem fans
k |
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| 13 Jul 2012 08:56 AM |
My build:
-AMD Radeon HD 6870 DirectCU BLAH BLAH BLAH
-P8P67 motherbord (asus?, AMX)
-Intel i5 2500 (i7 not worth it unless you can use some noob hyperthreading, i think ivy bridgs are out so check those k)
-Some fast noisy caviar black hdd (750 gb)
-Some nub old antec 300 case
-Some fail PSU (OCZ? some noob energy efficient model) i bought for my old comp to test wether it would start working by changing psu (500w) |
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zxv12
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| Joined: 18 Jul 2009 |
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| 13 Jul 2012 09:09 AM |
Radio, you're jokes.
Also, the case...
OH DARN I FORGOT NAME OH GOD IM SO SWEARING IN MY MIND RIGHT NOW...
uhh.. uhh.. uh... uh... uh...u jh.h.h.efpoeajnveujviwevuaionrvewio (stress) euwo hbwq9u3rwjeviawejvnaoiwueravniwe982
ok i forget k?
uh... uh.h...
uh... BAH HUMBUG. ok im going to stop now incase i get banned for spam and im gonna just think inside my 'ed not in the keyboard
5 minutes later: ok its gon for good. soz. |
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zxv12
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| 13 Jul 2012 09:12 AM |
Still can't remember.
but go to dem scan pls ok its chep!!!1 |
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zxv12
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| Joined: 18 Jul 2009 |
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| 13 Jul 2012 09:20 AM |
After browsing Scan for a while...
Case I have and reccomend:
Fractal Design Define R3 USB 3.0 Black Pearl, Mid Tower Case NEW Cable Routing Noise Absorbing w/o PSU
£72 |
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