dude_56013
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Alrighty. Well, Merry Christmas if you're reading this today! I had some extra time so I figured I'd post the build I plan on doing for my friend. He's stuck now with a junker laptop and wants to move to a desktop so that he can game on it. He's budgeted $1,000 and I am to get $50-$100 of that for building it for him, so consider the budget around $900.
Here's what I've got lined up, I just want to know if you've got suggestions. At the end of the day, I'm almost positive he wants to go AMD/ATI as you've got more bang for the buck in the current market.
CPU - PII X4 965
MB - ASUS M4A87TD EVO 870
RAM - Gskill 8GB
Graphics - XFX 6870
DVD - Sony Optiarc
HDD - WD 640GB
PSU - Corsair 750W
Case - Lian Li (if you have suggestions here, that's fine. I wanted something nice, with a window, for under $100 with shipping)\
Total came to around $910 without shipping factored in. But prices will fluctuate by the time he buys it--it'll be in at least a month or two.
Initially, we were going to go hexcore, but I realized to fit his budget, we would GPU bottleneck him and that would be pointless. I don't feel a hexcore is needed for him to game adequately.
Let me know whatcha think. Thanks guys.
Here's what I've got lined up, I just want to know if you've got suggestions. At the end of the day, I'm almost positive he wants to go AMD/ATI as you've got more bang for the buck in the current market.
CPU - PII X4 965
MB - ASUS M4A87TD EVO 870
RAM - Gskill 8GB
Graphics - XFX 6870
DVD - Sony Optiarc
HDD - WD 640GB
PSU - Corsair 750W
Case - Lian Li (if you have suggestions here, that's fine. I wanted something nice, with a window, for under $100 with shipping)\
Total came to around $910 without shipping factored in. But prices will fluctuate by the time he buys it--it'll be in at least a month or two.
Initially, we were going to go hexcore, but I realized to fit his budget, we would GPU bottleneck him and that would be pointless. I don't feel a hexcore is needed for him to game adequately.
Let me know whatcha think. Thanks guys.