which system can be made with 3200$ ?? plz help

[leon_the_pro]

hi guys . i have a budget of 3200 $ and i want the best system possible without a monitor . i would perfer a ddr3 memory system . plz guys help me coz i feel iam lost ,coz there r lost of models out there iam just confused. thanx in advance

 

[roadrunner197069]

Your way over budget. Under $1500 is fine.

 

[KyleSTL]

Seriously, $3200 without a monitor?

I'm gonna guess troll.

Edit: How 'bout this. We'll suggest a reasonable computer build for $1600 and you can send the other $1600 to me, since you clearly have too much money.

 

[1971Rhino]

i feel iam lost ,coz there r lost of models out there iam just confused. thanx in advance

You building or strictly buying a pre-assembled PC?

Why all the sad faces? If I had $3200 budgeted for a new PC I'd be one happy camper even if I didn't know what I wanted.

 

[sisley_111]

For which purpose ? Gaming ? Agreed with roadrunner, 1500$ will be enough for a good system.

e8400 or q9300, x38 or p35, 4gig DDR2-800, wd 640gig, DVD burner, a nice case, power supply for your graphic card and 1 or 2 graphic cards (2 x 4870 or 1 gtx 260).

 

[kad]

hi guys . i have a budget of 3200 $ and i want the best system possible without a monitor . i would perfer a ddr3 memory system . plz guys help me coz i feel iam lost ,coz there r lost of models out there iam just confused. thanx in advance

You should not build anything now if you have 3200$ and want DDR3
DDR3 will shine with Nehalem and really it is a waste of mony to use it now with existing mobos and procs
And as they said, with max. 2000$ you can build a high end system
Of course you can build a system of
790i chipset mobo: 300$
QX9770: 1600$
280 GTX SLI : 1400$
4G DDR3:1000$
1000W PSU: 300$
Case: 200$
HS+Fan: 100$
2 X1 Ter. HDD: 600$
Blue Ray DVD writer: 300$
Sound Card+Mouse+Keyboard+Speekers:600$
Total : 6400
If it is OK I can tell you the parts exactly but do not ask me to send you another 3200$

 

[knotknut]

$3200.00 will get you 2x GTX 280's and a power supply for each one.

Will there be anything else?

 

[leon_the_pro]

guys i neeed a system that i will not upgrade for another 2 to 3 years i will give u the specs i got

1- intel Q9550
2- intel x38 or x48 ( which is better?)
3- crosair 4gb ram ddr3
4- 150gb raptor 10000 rpm + 1tb x 2
5- 8800 ultra graphics
6- thermal take 1000 watt psu
7- gigabyte 3d mercury case
8- Lite-On LH-2B1S 8x6x16x DVD-RW Blu-Ray Disc Writer
9- mm card reader

should i add or reduce anything here ? thanx again

 

[halcyon]

Since you have money to waste, get the X48 chipset, its slightly better. I'd also get a decent case with that kind of budget...not that Gigabyte. I'd get 3 raptors and put them in AID 0 or RAID 5 and back them up with 2 x 1TB drives.

Everyone does it differently, but that's what I'd do if I was wasting money.

 

[halcyon]

If she/he were a doctor or a dentist and $3.2K was irrelevant she'd/he'd likely not be HERE asking for advice on what kit to get, eh? She'd/he'd be well spoken/written and would have done her/his independent research, as doctors and dentist do, and would likely know that there's little to be had buy spending $1,500 more than is truly necessary to get a nice rig given what's on the horizon. My unsolicited opinion, no offense intended.

 

[KyleSTL]

For $3200 you definitely want to go SLI, and with the X38/X48 boards you can ONLY do crossfire. Get a nVidia nForce 780/790i board and two/three GPUs.

I agree with all halcyon's comments above.

 

[prochobo]

Ditch the 8800 Ultra, [flash=0,0]http://crunkentertainment.com/img5.jpg[/flash]go for one of Nvidia's or ATi's upcoming cards.

 

[halcyon]

With a high-end system I'd go with 8GB of RAM and a 64-Bit OS, so not only will you have a strong gaming platform but a better equipped workstation as well. You may get into 3D modeling, CAD, or Virtualization (finding that you can run mulitiple instances of Vista, XP, and Ubunto simultaneously inside a 64-BIT host via VMWare can get addictive). Takes a reasonable disk-sub system but you've got money for a decent hardware-based AID 0 or RAID 5 + backup. ...of course 8GB of DDR3 isn't going to be economical....

Again, you may be able to get a stronger system if you're willing to change your specs (a 64Bit OS will appreciate 8GB of DDR2 more than it will appreciate 4GB of DDR3) and you'd have more money available to upgrade to a Nahelam platform, should you wish to upgrade to the latest and greatest. You could also save a notable amount if you went with a Q9450 as opposed to the Q9550. ...or....or ....or consider going with a dual quad-core setup that will get you more processing power than you'll likely be able to find a use for today. You'd be closer to that All-Out rig I think you're aiming for.

There's so many ways to spend $3.2K on a strong system it hard to cover them, as you can see. I would definitely look to 8GB of RAM in a super strong platform that I expected to be happy with for 3-4 years, and might consider 8 cores with a socket 771 board. I'm not sure I've seen anything that would lead me to believe that 4GB of DDR3 would be the better investment over 8GB of good DDR2. That might sound like gross and wasteful overkill today, but it won't be in just 1 year. In a year you may not have the newest system but you'd damned well would have a strong one.

Graphics power? Video cards come...and they go. What's hot right now aint gonna be hot in 5 minutes. With that in mind I can't recommend that you go out and invest a good portion of your money on the highest of the high-end gaming graphics solution that will be obsolete in 6 months. In fact, if that were me, it'd annoy me...$600+ dropped on a now obsolete graphics solution. Better to go mid-to-high end at a reasonable cost so you can upgrade the video sub-system more often.

Just one possible flavor of the head of a hardcore rig:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121330 = $660

or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131272 = $500

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117145 X 2 = $970

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148189 x 2 = $500

...mate something like that with nice graphics, a good PSU, nice storage, and I nice case with the at least $1K+ left over and you'd have that over-the-top $3.2K system. There's so many options for such the enviable position you've found yourself in...just depends on how you want to spend the paper and what you really want.

A nice system with money left over for something else later or the baddest rig you can slip into right now?

I don't believe you told us what would be your primary task/goal with this rig, cause you don't need to spend $3.2K to enjoy Crysis and AoC.

Think it through.