Building a Computer

[Dark Assassin]

How much money would I need to build a mid- to high-level computer?
I have a couple of old ones I've been experimenting with, but I would like to have a good one for real work...like learning how to program and hack and such...

Keep in mind that I'm a 15 year old with no job and not much access to money...i'd like it to be as low as possible...

 

[TRDCorolla1]

Dell has some pretty nice introductory systems for a nice price:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Custom building with a pretty good setup can cost quite a bit so I recommend a complete system already made like the example above.

 

[winterfreshpwnz]

What will you be doing the most on it?

 

[Starr]

If you go to a site like www.cyberpowerinc.com they have great prices. The comp in my sig cost me $800. I had a monitor and OS though....

 

[Dark Assassin]

probably a little bit of gaming, but mostly programming, i hope.

 

[winterfreshpwnz]

You should probably go with Intel.

 

[Dark Assassin]

yeah, i have a monitor...how much would it cost to build one, though? i'd rather get experience building rather than buy a prebuilt one...

 

[winterfreshpwnz]

It depends on the parts you put into it. For the stuff you're doing (little bit of gaming, programming, etc.), I'd say around 1000 as a rough guess. What kind of games do you wanna play though?

 

[Dark Assassin]

neverwinter nights- style, halo, UT2004 (possibly)

 

[winterfreshpwnz]

Alright well those aren't too extreme, you can definitely get by with a simple, cheap gfx card and get high frames on those games.