Scooby wrote:
Ok... so Rampage has said at least twice that he doesn't have alot of money. So here's the deal. Rampage, I don't know where you live, but if you have a good computer store you can get to, here's what I did.
I used an existing tower, pulled the antiquated board took it down to my place here, Frys Electronics, they have Mother boards with processors ready to buy. Bought a similar sized Mother board with some expandibility and built my system from there. I put together a quad core AMD motherboard, with a 2 gigi video card, new updated power supply and 8 gigs of ram for about 250 bucks.
AMD is always going to be less expensive, but honestly it really gives you the best bang for your buck. While Intel is great, you pay top dollor for alot of their stuff because of the neme, not the performance.
Lastly, it will probably take you a couple weeks to figure out what you can put together, don't rush into the decisions right awasy as sometimes a sale will pop up and you can get a better part for the same amount you'd pay for something middle of the road.
Good Luck,
Scooby
Always the best bang for buck, patience...
I told him to buy things on sale but hes set on a 1 month build... I bought my stuff over a 4-5 month period and at the end, $350 ... (craigslist/newegg deals) with a hdd laying around...
None the less benchmarks are what to look at to compare for what you want it to do, meet or exceed the goal and move on. |