Wow for starters I just wanna say wow, this site is amazing and looking/reading around has been great. I love gaming and I've been an xbox fan since the beginning lol. But I got this laptop that cost me around 1,100 at the time and I recently bought Dead Space and was Confused on why it wasn't running Lol. So I updated the Graphic Drive on the laptop to the 945GM Express Chipset Graphics Driver..lol still bad I'm running everything on low settings and the game is still skipping all over the place. So I started to look around, a friend from college told me he built his awhile back so I decided to look into building computers. And I proudly say now I'm hooked staying up long nights reading and learning about different parts, you know expanding my knowledge...I mean we all learned some way I'm sure you guys remember the process...and I've gotten better but still new to this and looking for advice and some guidance with this. LOL as for the laptop I'm currently selling it on ebay trying to help cover some of the cost off building one.
Wanna check it out the laptop is here in the link below
17"HP Pavilion dv9535 Fully Loaded &Portable DVD Player - eBay (item 180308252418 end time Dec-01-08 11:12:14 PST)
Ok on Newegg.com I've put this together
This Link is the computer parts in the shopping cart if you don't feel like reading lol...well you gotta read anyway right? lol anyway link below
Newegg.com Shopping Cart
Case: RAIDMAX SAGITTA 1 ATX-921WBP Black / Silver 0.7mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Removable MB Computer Case With 450W Power Supply (Don't know what the **** to do with the default PS)
Monitor: Hanns·G Hi-221DPB Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 Built in Speakers
Graphic Card/Video Card: EVGA 512-P3-N879-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
PS: Rosewill RP550V2-D-SL 550W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply
Memory: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Optical Drive??? Do I need one or is there one in here LOL
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
LOGISYS Computer CLK4BL 4" Blue Cold Cathode Light Kit x2
APEVIA CF12SL-4C 120mm Multi-Color LED Case Fan (lol do I even need this?)
That's it....the total came to 933.38
With shipping it's a grand total is 971.24
Is there anyway to Cheapen this? but still have a good enough computer for gaming on high settings? My laptop on ebay is currently at 561.00 with two days left and I have about 22 people watching my item and 9bidders so I'm hoping to finish with a decent enough price to help cover some of these cost.
Also I've seen some gaming computers on ebay tell me what you guys think
Should I go with this setup I was thinking about buying this and just upgrading slowly or at my pace... link below
NEW! Geforce 9500GT 512/Athlon X2 5000/Gaming Computer - eBay (item 260317555242 end time Dec-19-08 22:15:51 PST)
He said he can throw in a monitor and swap the 9500GT for the 9800GT for 600...is this good or should I just stick to my custom computer
Thanks for reading my life story I've been killing my girl with this stuff, she most likely hates me as of now lol...
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Wanna check it out the laptop is here in the link below
17"HP Pavilion dv9535 Fully Loaded &Portable DVD Player - eBay (item 180308252418 end time Dec-01-08 11:12:14 PST)
Ok on Newegg.com I've put this together
This Link is the computer parts in the shopping cart if you don't feel like reading lol...well you gotta read anyway right? lol anyway link below
Newegg.com Shopping Cart
Case: RAIDMAX SAGITTA 1 ATX-921WBP Black / Silver 0.7mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Removable MB Computer Case With 450W Power Supply (Don't know what the **** to do with the default PS)
Monitor: Hanns·G Hi-221DPB Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 Built in Speakers
Graphic Card/Video Card: EVGA 512-P3-N879-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
PS: Rosewill RP550V2-D-SL 550W ATX12V v2.01 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply
Memory: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Optical Drive??? Do I need one or is there one in here LOL
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
LOGISYS Computer CLK4BL 4" Blue Cold Cathode Light Kit x2
APEVIA CF12SL-4C 120mm Multi-Color LED Case Fan (lol do I even need this?)
That's it....the total came to 933.38
With shipping it's a grand total is 971.24
Is there anyway to Cheapen this? but still have a good enough computer for gaming on high settings? My laptop on ebay is currently at 561.00 with two days left and I have about 22 people watching my item and 9bidders so I'm hoping to finish with a decent enough price to help cover some of these cost.
Also I've seen some gaming computers on ebay tell me what you guys think
Should I go with this setup I was thinking about buying this and just upgrading slowly or at my pace... link below
NEW! Geforce 9500GT 512/Athlon X2 5000/Gaming Computer - eBay (item 260317555242 end time Dec-19-08 22:15:51 PST)
He said he can throw in a monitor and swap the 9500GT for the 9800GT for 600...is this good or should I just stick to my custom computer
Thanks for reading my life story I've been killing my girl with this stuff, she most likely hates me as of now lol...
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