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  Tom's Hardware Forums » Homebuilt Systems » New System Build » Budget Computer, Need Ideas
 

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I am looking to build two seperate systems, one costing around 2000$ (hopefully not that much) and one for as cheap as I can get it, and run the games I want to play decently EX: Age of Conan, Oblivion and future games. I will post the specs I have thought of in the next couple sentences.

Comp #1 Hopeful price = 1800$ Including the monitor, case and power supply.

Case: Antec Nine Hundred

MOBO: Nvidia 680i

Video Card: 8800 GTX

RAM: G.SKILL F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ PC2-8000 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1000 CL5-5-5-15 240PIN

Power Supply: Looking for a PS with enough horsepower to eventually run 2X8800 GTX, and of course price should be lowish

CPU: Intel Q6600

Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200. 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive

Sound Card: Not really a priority with me, but I hear sound cards inmprove performance : /

Monitor: Again, I don't know much about these thiongs, looking for at least 22", and 1680X1050 resolutions, along with 5MS or faster response.



For my second PC, I am looking to play some games, but am on a really tight budget, looking for the lowest possible cost on things. ( don't need a monitor, case or hard drive )

Was thinking of a 8800 GT, 2 gigs of ram and a E6600 DC or something of the likes.

I would really like some info and feedback on this, thanks in advance!

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Weeby12 wrote :


Sound Card: Not really a priority with me, but I hear sound cards inmprove performance : /




Now i would like to know that as well, over onboard sound.

And that's a hell of a low budget system! I think that any system that plays oblivion decently cant even be called med budget system!

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I think you meant to say a sound card offloads processing power from the cpu to the card. In some cases, it is true. You'd have to look at the benchmarks to determine that. It's just a few percents.

If you're getting the TigerDirect cpu/mobo combo deal, make sure it's not OEM CPU. If it is, then pick up a cpu cooler like Freezer 7 Pro.

Swap that gpu out for 8800GTS 512. If not enough, throw in another one.

Pick out a psu here:

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

Look at Samsung monitors

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Why two systems?

Run 25ft dvi-hdmi cable through a wall if you plan to use the computer on a TV in the living room.

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For the budget system, which I think will be located at a different place, read this:

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] c_upgrade/


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