I have a friend who would like to build a new computer. I haven't been on here in a while and would like a little bit of assistance in building this. He said he is going to be doing a lot of gaming on it, so I told him that he should probably go with AMD and stay away from DDR2 RAM.
He said there is not much of a limit to spending, but try to keep this reasonable will you?
Processor: Probably going with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+. Not sure if there is really a better one out there right now that is still reasonably affordable.
Video Card: Mobo will have to be pci-express to futureproof it, so probably 7800 or 7900 in there somewhere? Also, should we go with GTX?
Motherboard: No idea what would be good here, open to any suggestions.
Ram: I was thinking two 1 gig sticks in dual channel. Not sure what kind of ram though, any suggestions?
Hard Drive: He said he'll need a lot of memory. I was thinking about RAIDing two 160 gig hard drives, but would it be better to RAID four 80 gig hard drives?
DVD rom: Need one for writing and reading that is top end, and one that is quiet and speedy for playing games, I'm open to suggestions here as well.
That's a good start, thanks for all of the help in advance everyone.
He said there is not much of a limit to spending, but try to keep this reasonable will you?
Processor: Probably going with AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+. Not sure if there is really a better one out there right now that is still reasonably affordable.
Video Card: Mobo will have to be pci-express to futureproof it, so probably 7800 or 7900 in there somewhere? Also, should we go with GTX?
Motherboard: No idea what would be good here, open to any suggestions.
Ram: I was thinking two 1 gig sticks in dual channel. Not sure what kind of ram though, any suggestions?
Hard Drive: He said he'll need a lot of memory. I was thinking about RAIDing two 160 gig hard drives, but would it be better to RAID four 80 gig hard drives?
DVD rom: Need one for writing and reading that is top end, and one that is quiet and speedy for playing games, I'm open to suggestions here as well.
That's a good start, thanks for all of the help in advance everyone.