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szadeklord   05-26-2009 at 09:02:45 PM

can you guys give me a build under 500 dollars that can later on do sli and play games like far cry 2 and team fortress 2

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Bronze Home Brew badge Outlander_04   05-26-2009 at 11:00:17 PM
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there are no good $500 sli builds . They'd have to be based on nVidia chipset mb's and they dont have a great reputation .

You can build a great pc for $500 [ depending on what you actually need to buy ]
and you can find those recommendations by scrolling back through this forum and looking at all the thread title that have "$500 " in the title

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megamanx00   05-26-2009 at 11:41:10 PM
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You really have more options with a crossfire build honestly, just not one for under $500. Anyway I guess I'll take a stab at this.

 

ZOTAC NF750A-A-E AM2+/AM2 $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813500013

 

Athlon 5400BE $58.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103289

 

Galaxy 9800GT $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814162028

 

Antec 300 & Antec earth watts 430W Combo $98.94
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.193754

 

Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136098

 

Vista home Premium 64-bit $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116488

 

Optical drive, monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers? Take them from whatever computer you used to type this message ^_^

 

And that gives you a total of $497.89 before shipping. Really though going with an ASRock 780GXE board that supports crossfire and a Radeon 4770 would be better as the 4770 is more on the level of the 9800GTX rather than the 9800GT. Two 4770s in crossfire will give you some impressive performance and boards based on the AMD chipsets will give you more CPU upgrade options and generally have better overclocking headroom than the nVidia based chipsets.

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------------------------------ Playing X-Men Origins: Wolverine Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @3.24 Brisbane | GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4 | 4GB Mushkin DDR2 1066 | Plextor 760A| 2x 3850 512M CF| WD 1TB Black| Fortron Blue Storm II 500W | APEVIA X-Dreamer Black | Win XP Pro & Vista Buisness 32bit
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megamanx00   05-27-2009 at 07:16:00 AM
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Ooops, forgot the RAM so add

OCZ Value Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) $21.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227060

Bringing your total to $519.88. Yeah I tried. Anyway you could go with a 9600GSO instead to make budget like this one

XFX PVT96OS1S4 GeForce 9600 GSO Fatality Edition 768MB $66.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814150358

Which would bring your total to $486.88 so you could have a little money left to get whatever optical drive was on sale ^_^.

------------------------------ Playing X-Men Origins: Wolverine Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @3.24 Brisbane | GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4 | 4GB Mushkin DDR2 1066 | Plextor 760A| 2x 3850 512M CF| WD 1TB Black| Fortron Blue Storm II 500W | APEVIA X-Dreamer Black | Win XP Pro & Vista Buisness 32bit
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rewindlabs   05-27-2009 at 12:23:59 PM
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Someone advise and post a reason why buying a dual core cpu would be a bad idea and change this guys mind...i don't feel like it....

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Bronze Home Brew badge gkay09   05-27-2009 at 02:03:13 PM
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megamanx00 wrote :

You really have more options with a crossfire build honestly, just not one for under $500. Anyway I guess I'll take a stab at this.

ZOTAC NF750A-A-E AM2+/AM2 $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813500013

Athlon 5400BE $58.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103289

Galaxy 9800GT $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814162028

Antec 300 & Antec earth watts 430W Combo $98.94
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.193754

Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136098

Vista home Premium 64-bit $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116488

Optical drive, monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers? Take them from whatever computer you used to type this message ^_^

And that gives you a total of $497.89 before shipping. Really though going with an ASRock 780GXE board that supports crossfire and a Radeon 4770 would be better as the 4770 is more on the level of the 9800GTX rather than the 9800GT. Two 4770s in crossfire will give you some impressive performance and boards based on the AMD chipsets will give you more CPU upgrade options and generally have better overclocking headroom than the nVidia based chipsets.


Change CPU to this - It is better than the 5400 and is newer...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103300

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