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Re: Budget build
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2009, 08:47:52 PM »
Quote from: Fulmar on February 08, 2009, 01:38:56 PM
Why the SSD HD?  You can get a 500gb Seagate for about $60.  That gives you an extra $80 to play with.

You can find 9800GT's for $92 after MIR (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500080), but Zotac doesn't offer the lifetime warranties that BFG, XFX, and EVGA offer.

You can take that $80 savings and use it to where you can get more performance.  Either use it in a video card, or a faster CPU such as an E7400, E7500, or the fan favorite E8400.

Fulmar,


Again ATI 4350 OR 4650 will save money to pay for operating system that was not included. $80 SAVINGS DEPENDING ON WHICH BUILD YOU LOOK AT.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2009, 09:19:57 PM »
Quote from: drdeathx on February 08, 2009, 08:44:12 PM
Waste of money on 7900GS. ATI 4350 can be bought for $50. The 9800GTX + 7900GS in dollars makes no sense. Your ram is rather pricey too. You can buy ram for half the price DDR2.


I bought that 7900 almost a year ago, it was at the time a good buy since I had a PSU to handle it.  My RAM was bought over a year ago, thus was more expensive then now.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2009, 10:22:53 PM »
Quote from: drdeathx on February 08, 2009, 08:47:52 PM
Fulmar,
Again ATI 4350 OR 4650 will save money to pay for operating system that was not included. $80 SAVINGS DEPENDING ON WHICH BUILD YOU LOOK AT.
I went on the recommendations for the price range from Tomshardware.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2009, 11:43:04 PM »
Quote from: drdeathx on February 08, 2009, 08:44:12 PM
Waste of money on 7900GS. ATI 4350 can be bought for $50. The 9800GTX + 7900GS in dollars makes no sense. Your ram is rather pricey too. You can buy ram for half the price DDR2.


Or he could get a 9600 or 9800 GT for $100.  Tha 7900 GS is definately overpriced for what you get.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2009, 03:10:05 AM »
Whelp, I decided to go back to the drawing board and figure out a good GPU based build for under $500.  This is what I came up with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 Brisbane 2.6GHz Dual-Core Processor - Retail            $54.99
BIOSTAR A770 A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail          $69.99
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD502lJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive - OEM        $59.99
OCZ Gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 - Retail                                                 $41.99
Antec EA650 650W Power Supply - Retail                                                  $79.99
Rosewill R222-P-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail           $19.99
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP3 for System Builders - OEM                          $89.99
HP Black 20X DVD Burner - OEM                                                               $19.99
HIS Hightech H465FS512P Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit Video Card - Retail  $59.99

Total                                                                                                 $496.91

The BIOSTAR A770 motherboard, will allow me to upgrade to the Phenom II processor, later on.  The 4650 Radeon card is pretty nice video for the price.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2009, 09:13:02 AM »
Quote from: Iron_Cross on February 09, 2009, 03:10:05 AM
Whelp, I decided to go back to the drawing board and figure out a good GPU based build for under $500.  This is what I came up with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 Brisbane 2.6GHz Dual-Core Processor - Retail            $54.99
BIOSTAR A770 A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail          $69.99
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD502lJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive - OEM        $59.99
OCZ Gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 - Retail                                                 $41.99
Antec EA650 650W Power Supply - Retail                                                  $79.99
Rosewill R222-P-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail           $19.99
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP3 for System Builders - OEM                          $89.99
HP Black 20X DVD Burner - OEM                                                               $19.99
HIS Hightech H465FS512P Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit Video Card - Retail  $59.99

Total                                                                                                 $496.91

The BIOSTAR A770 motherboard, will allow me to upgrade to the Phenom II processor, later on.  The 4650 Radeon card is pretty nice video for the price.

Only suggestion I have is choose a different model number for the HP DVD Burner.  I believe you selected this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140029

It's IDE, and IMO, the cabling for SATA drivers is sooo much nicer than IDE.  Their HP SATA is out of stock, but you should be able to find a good LG or Asus Drive w/ lightscrib and free shipping for ~$25-27.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2009, 11:08:53 AM »
Quote from: Iron_Cross on February 09, 2009, 03:10:05 AM
Whelp, I decided to go back to the drawing board and figure out a good GPU based build for under $500.  This is what I came up with:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 Brisbane 2.6GHz Dual-Core Processor - Retail            $54.99
BIOSTAR A770 A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail          $69.99
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD502lJ 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive - OEM        $59.99
OCZ Gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 - Retail                                                 $41.99
Antec EA650 650W Power Supply - Retail                                                  $79.99
Rosewill R222-P-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail           $19.99
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP3 for System Builders - OEM                          $89.99
HP Black 20X DVD Burner - OEM                                                               $19.99
HIS Hightech H465FS512P Radeon HD 4650 512MB 128-bit Video Card - Retail  $59.99

Total                                                                                                 $496.91

The BIOSTAR A770 motherboard, will allow me to upgrade to the Phenom II processor, later on.  The 4650 Radeon card is pretty nice video for the price.

Much better. 

There's a lot of power in that PSU which is a good thing.  If you wanted to you could scale that back a shade and spend the savings on upgrading either the case or the OS to XP Pro.  If you don't do that then you're set for any possible video card upgrade you want to make in the future without having to buy a new PSU which is a good futureproofing strategy.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2009, 01:51:01 PM »
Quote from: Fulmar on February 09, 2009, 09:13:02 AM
Only suggestion I have is choose a different model number for the HP DVD Burner.  I believe you selected this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827140029

It's IDE, and IMO, the cabling for SATA drivers is sooo much nicer than IDE.  Their HP SATA is out of stock, but you should be able to find a good LG or Asus Drive w/ lightscrib and free shipping for ~$25-27.

You mean like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136149
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2009, 02:05:32 PM »
Quote from: Iron_Cross on February 09, 2009, 01:51:01 PM
You mean like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136149

Yes but or a few $ more this one supports Lightscribe which allows you to burn a label onto the disc (plus it's a little faster):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136153
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2009, 02:24:18 PM »
Quote from: Iron_Cross on February 09, 2009, 01:51:01 PM
You mean like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136149
Yeah, that's a popular buy on Newegg.  As BaldEagl said, that one doesn't have Lightscribe, but you don't need it anyways.  Lightscribe is kind of a neat gimmick...
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2009, 03:12:11 PM »
Lightscribe is nice, til you run out of discs and can't justify the price of more.  Those suckers are expensive, here anyways.  A pack of 20 is about 16$, where as a pack of 50 normal discs is 18$.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2009, 03:23:09 PM »
I only use it for CD's I burn for my car or DVD movies where I want some artwork on them.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2009, 05:45:28 PM »
Two words, for those that think LightScribe is the bee's knees;  Sharpie Marker.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2009, 06:04:56 PM »
Quote from: Iron_Cross on February 09, 2009, 05:45:28 PM
Two words, for those that think LightScribe is the bee's knees;  Sharpie Marker.
If you need something with a design/logo/artwork on it for work or something else, I find that it beats those stupid printed sticker systems.
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Re: Budget build
« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2009, 11:40:34 PM »
Decided to take a whack at this for the fun of it. Heres what I came up with... https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=6180729

Totals $424 before tax, S&H, etc. Decent build that is flexible, could probably change the video card up. The mobo. is a bit on the expensive side but I've never been a fan of cheap mobos.
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