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Mattman
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 05:49
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I might make a pc (my current one is REALLY bad) and was wondering what you think I should get. I'm not a hardware guy, and don't know much about this. I just wanna know what I need for a decent machine.

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Mattman

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the desktops
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 05:57
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new amd 64 bit processor
1 or 2gb memory
200gb hard drive
256mb video card
win xp pro

that's what i would make

i have a 2.6ghz pentium 4 processor, 1gb memory, 120gb, 128mb nvidia video card

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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 07:23
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Quote: "1 or 2gb memory"

u mean ram???

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Ian T
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 07:48
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Yes he means RAM

Anything under $1000 is not going to be high end technology, keep that in mind, unless you build the whole thing yourself. Your average decent gaming machine is gonna be around $2000-$2500, though you can get better prices if you look hard (and again it's cheaper to build one yourself). Alienware makes good PCs but I find their prices to be exorbitant (almost twice the cost of their parts).

If you think you've found a good deal, ask this forum first before buying, so you don't get ripped off like I was .

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JoelJ
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 07:55
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hide mouse

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dang, it works in DB...

1 or 2 gigs RAM!!! holy crap...that would be nice, i only have 512mgs and i though that was high end...stupid technology advances...
Quote: "$1000 is not going to be high end technology"

actually DELL has really nice prices (400-600$), not exactly for gaming but they're still nice.

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 11:14
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but don't dell tend you use integrated graphics cards that would have trouble showing a db cube?


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Chris K
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 11:52
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Yeah.... but you can get a PCI graphics card.

I got:

2.5 GHz
512MB RAM
40GB HD
DVD Drive
Printer

for £550.
It does have a 64MB graphics card but it sucks. It sucks. With a decent PCI card, though it could run HL2/DOOM3 on full settings (or so I'm told). I recon it was a pretty good deal.

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Eric T
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 11:53
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Quote: "but don't dell tend you use integrated graphics cards that would have trouble showing a db cube?

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You can request from dell to put in a ATI AGP card, but it'll cost more..

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lagmaster
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 13:41
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mattman tell us your budget and we'll tell you what you can get for your $$$

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 16:52
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Quote: "I'm not a hardware guy, and don't know much about this. I just wanna know what I need for a decent machine.

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Then stay the hell away from doing this. Trust me I BEEN THERE. It's alot les hassle to get a whole new pc unless ofcourse you buy all the hardware from one store unlike me who went around the whole city picking up junk that didn't work with each other. Knowing you it will be even worse.


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right first of all you need to pick the right motherboard, because once you pick your motherboard it will tell what ram/cpu it can take.

visit the motherboard website. goto online shops to see the customer reviews.

it's just basically research

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mm0zct
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 17:28 Edited at: 30th Dec 2003 17:32
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my pc can run halo at full settings 1024x748

cpu cost £40
mobo cost £20 (only agp4 but has onboard usb2,lan,sound)
graphics cost £90-100
sound cost can't remember but i think the onboard is pretty good
ram is dimm and u can get that for pennies now

do the currency conversions yourself if you want them but that's a high end pc for about:
£170 including ram (estimate)
could get a cheap case and psu which would bring you to about £200

there, that's a pc without a hdd for £200

edit: i got my dvd drive for £13 so with that it would be about £215 and with a 80gb hdd that would be about £285 or less

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Arrow
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 17:33
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Quote: "200gb hard drive "
Nope, can't be done. Windows con only support up to 136 Gigs on the primary HHD. With Service Pack 1 aditional HHDs can suppass this limit, but the Master can oly have 136, the rest is unuseable.

Quote: " but don't dell tend you use integrated graphics cards that would have trouble showing a db cube?"
I got a 64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TV out when I bought mine a year or two ago, though I did go for a video editing package, kinda funny that they gave me the bare minimum RAM. But if you do deside to go with Dell, pay up front! I'm getting screwed up the [explitive deleted] on the interest, 24%!!! I'm half tempted to get a credit card just to pay it off, at least it would have lower interest.


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mm0zct
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 19:43
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@Arrow, use a program to partition it, that's what i did and mine's only 40gb. very useful for keeping files away from windows too.

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