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PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

New machine, as in like a 3ghz P4 (the 2-3 year old ones)

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I'm not a big fan of the saitek look, and individually lit keys would be best. All the ones that look decent seem really expensive though. So far the only decent looking ones I've found were

Razer lycosa - dead sexy, but laptop style keys (not a fan) and $80

Logitech G11 - looks alright, normal but "soft" keys (I kinda like the clicking ones) and still $60

Those both have special gaming macros and stuff which I might use but don't need. I'd rather have a normal black keyboard with backlit keys for $30. You'd think someone would make it, I'm sure there would be a high demand. Can't seem to find one though.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

So I'm still looking for a sale on the G11, but in the mean time I've managed to put together the best $700 box the world has ever seen. (Ok probably not, but I'm quite happy with how things worked out and I'm pretty hard to please.)

Temporary · Joined: 13 Jan 2008

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I believe he meant a gaming system, in which case you'd want at least an e7200/8800GT which ARE over 100.

Also, the system you made is really cheap but still well over 200. That video card was the steal though.

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

A whole deal for 300-400,000 would be nice. A gaming system yes, but an older one. 2-3 year old components is fine. I've heard there are whole deals you can get (tower, monitor) for around this price range. I can't believe it's impossible to get a fairly good system (by 2006 standards for example) for this price.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Where do you get those prices? Yongsan? Or can I build/buy online through a place like Gmarket? Also need a cheap monitor (not a CRT) Smile

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Those are the prices from danawa which are the lowest prices in Yongsan. You can expect to pay a little more than those prices if you want to buy all in one shop. Cheap monitors can be had for around 150,000 for an LCD or 50,000 for a CRT.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Sweet system, Justjohn. Pretty much what I would have chosen if going for the $700 price point. You can get a Corsair PSU for 40 bucks!!!??? I wish I could be buying in the States......

In saying that, I just got an HIS HD4870..........330,000 in rip-off Korea. But, it's a wonderful thing to play all the games at 1680x1050 with everything on high. Always over 30 FPS. Crysis is amazing. I didn't realize there was so much physics in Crysis. At high settings, everything you touch bounces around in an ultra-realistic fashion.

sargx · Joined: 29 Nov 2007

For a Harddrive I would recomend the Western Digital 640gb. It has a high density per platter (320gb).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218

Seagate Barracuda, Samsung Spinpoints, etc. are other good choices.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hard-disks/average-read-transfer-performance,658.html

You can check comparisons here.

For cases I'm partial to lian-li. They're expensive though. Antec 182 is my second choice for a budget case.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

I just picked up PC Builder magazine and these are the specs they recommend for a bang-for-buck gaming machine:

Case
Coolmaster Cosmos 1000 $200

Motherboard
NVIDIA nForce 780i $250

CPU
Intel Q9300 2.5GHz Quad $270

RAM
2GB Corsair PC85000 DDR2 $100

VIDEO CARD
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX $300

Power Supply
Antec TruePower Quattro 850 Watt $200

CPU fan $65
Zalman 9700NT

Hard drive
Western digital 500GB SE16 SATA $90

Optical Drive
Lite-On 20X SATA DVD R/W $25

Total $1500

The power supply looks pretty pricey.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

@ kprrok

I'd get a cheaper mobo and go for the e7200 processor. Just a few bucks more and you can overclock them like crazy.

@ eamo

Got a total steal on that psu. Normal states price is about twice that.

@ tfunk

Sorry, but they don't know what they're talking about. My hard drive, CPU, and video card are all faster, my RAM probably is too and I have twice as much of it... And I didn't even skimp on the other components. The one I put together is hands down the better gaming system and I did it for less than half the price.

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

If all the parts work then this build looks stupid awesome for the cash. I made a computer with a P4 630 a few years back... whole thing cost me a lot more!

[piggyback] How much better is the dual-core E8400 3GHz compared to the P4? Don't tell me it's twice as bloody fast!

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.