Wanting to buy a new PC. Rate this build please.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Bojangles, Aug 22, 2007.

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    About the HardDrive, I have an external hard drive so I don't need a big internal one or anything. Should I go with a bigger internal HD? Would I need anything more? What would you add/upgrade? Would the Quad-Core be a great processor?

    Intel® Core™ 2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)
    Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
    4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs
    80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cacheâ„¢
    16X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) w/ double layer
    256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT-DDR3
    Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer (D) Sound Card
    13 in 1 Media Card Reader
     
    Bojangles, Aug 22, 2007 IP
  2. Scriptona

    Scriptona Notable Member

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    You can fly to the moon with that - I'd live to get this as a web server :D

    PS: how about a VGA card with more memory like 512 ?

    one more thing, you might need a 10k rpm HDD to make use of the other resources to boost the performance ;)
     
    Scriptona, Aug 22, 2007 IP
  3. timsdd

    timsdd Peon

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    I like everything but the HD interface....Serial ATA :confused: sounds too 2004 :eek: isn't Sata the name of the game these days :confused:
     
    timsdd, Aug 22, 2007 IP
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    AngelaE8654 Active Member

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    Yeah, get all the memory you can. Not having enough is the pitts. :(
     
    AngelaE8654, Aug 22, 2007 IP
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    If your budget can afford it, try to get an 8800GTX ;)
     
    FreakyLime, Aug 23, 2007 IP
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    Shakas Well-Known Member

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    4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs -> get DDR2 800mhz
    if you can afford forget the 8600 and go for a 8800gts or if possible a GTX


    I think you shouldent forget the motherboard, wich will be about 150$ (asus p5k-e)

    and the quadrcore is really something! nice processor
     
    Shakas, Aug 23, 2007 IP
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    spidro Well-Known Member

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    if you can get DDR2 800mhz instead that would be better

    if you r not gamer just normal pc user so that would be fine if you planning to play lots of games i suggest you get the 8800GTS
     
    spidro, Aug 23, 2007 IP
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    they now have DDR3!!! I'd get that :D
     
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    Shakas Well-Known Member

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    yep, but dd3 are too expensive now.
     
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    yeah that's true, I haven't priced them but I can only imagine. That's good for the DDR2 folks though. My memory used to be $132-150 per GB and now it's all the way down to $80!
     
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    quad cores rule, that would be a nice setup though, the quad core is currently the best on the market (4 cores = 4 processors)
     
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    ahkip Prominent Member

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    are you using it for gaming? If not, you don't need that video card

    the first thing i will ditch is Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic. It is slow and useless. Get ubuntu and you won't even think about windows anymore
     
    ahkip, Aug 23, 2007 IP
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    Which size you buying the LCD - how about to go with 19 inch LCD?
     
    RoyalSeo, Aug 23, 2007 IP
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    21 inch lcd would be better wide screen, x2 would be even better :D.
     
    ::Mike::, Aug 23, 2007 IP