Ok, my freind wants to build a new PC. He has $1000 and would liek a AMD processor. anyone have any ideas? I would show him but I'm not sure if there's little details I would miss.
Building a PC
Ok, my freind wants to build a new PC. He has $1000 and would liek a AMD processor. anyone have any ideas? I would show him but I'm not sure if there's little details I would miss.
You should find out what he wants to do with it. Play the latest, high-end games? 1000 might be a bit too little for that.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/...g_rig_for_720/
That will run most any game at most any resolution. Its a sweet secret set up that is cheap, and fast as hell. It uses an intel chipset but hell, for the price - beggers can't be choosers. The thing looks mint, and is water cooled.
GOE! DO IT!
In the case of the massively overclocked Pentium D 805, it's worth it to buy Intel.
Other than that, go for an Athlon X2 3800 or an Athlon 64 3500+.
He said he want's to play Spore also Guild Wars and a FPS, I told him my laptop plays CSS and GW. And thnks bipper I'll send him that.
I just bought a decent machine last week for under £300 (about $500 I guess), including an Athlon 64 3500+, 1 GB PC3200 RAM, and 300 GB HD. I've skimped on the video card though since I'll be using the machine remotely 99% of the time so don't need high-end graphics, but even with a decent card, I'm sure it could stay well below $1000
Well, I know Jebus said he paid liek $700 for his, I just didn't know if there were little things you need that I don't knwo about, ya know liek what type of board works with what processor, stuff like that.
you can buy them [mobos and procs] in bundles at certain stores, but I am sure if you post all the info you can on the gear you want before you buy it, and one of us can give our stamp of aproval with a guarentee that if it does not work, CL_OUT will completely replace your system
Look for socket type and ram speeds. Also, look at what video card it can handle. That is why I jus posted that SWEET watercooled rig from Tom's Hardware; they tell you what to buy - and it works
Yeah that rig looks very nice, Ithinking of doing that one, screw him xD
but thanks I'll post some mroe stuff in a bit
Don't get a Pentium D. It's 32-bit and the 64-bit Conroe's will be out later this month. If he must get one now, I recommend nothing less than an Athlon 64 3500+.
"Pentium D 805 clocked at 2.66 GHz, equipped with two processor cores both with 64 bit support."
should be sufficiant for a transversal 64 bit time period
Pentium D's are 64-bit.Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Either that or Fedora 64-bit is running on my Pentium D by magic.
That's strange. All out baseline machines at work have Pentium D and I always thought they were 32-bit. I thought EM64T was only implemented currently in Intel's EE line of P4s.
Ah well, I still wouldn't get a Pentium D now with the impending release of Conroe and Woodcrest.
Even without Conroe and Woodcrest, you still wouldn't want to get a Pentium D.
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