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spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

I want to get into games. Now, just use com for net, downloading music and vids and doing some photo-shopping. I'd like to put together a system for around 1mill - 1mill3, including 21in lcd monitor. I'd like to go core 2 duo, 1-2gig mem would be enough. This is what I think I would like.

ASUS P5B Deluxe, Intel C2D E6400, 2GB Samsung DDR2 PC5300, LG CD/DVD-RW, WD3200KS, XFX 7600GT fatility

Any suggestions as to components would be greatly appreciated. Very Happy

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

That rig looks really nice, but probably real overkill if you dont game or do video encoding.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

I'd get a a4300 and like a 7600gt or something.. Save your self the cash

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

If I were you, I'd try to buy a used Pentium 4 (1G RAM) off someone on the boards. You only need a 6600-7600 series 128MB graphics card (a 6600GT smokes most pre-2007 games and not worth much these days) That's more than enough PC for PS and surfing and It would only cost you about 250-300K. Then you could buy a nice expensive monitor.

The rig you are proposing is a nice mid-level gaming machine.

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

would he need any kind of video card? if he's just surfing and downloading, the P5B should be able to handle that, no problem?

I may be mistaken, but just my thoughts

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Actually, I plan do do vdo encoding, allbeit, on a small level and, I want to get my wife into gaming so she has something to do other than watching tv and reading about her Thai drama stars on the net all day.

Also, how do these two moniters compare.

Fine Force F220 WT, 269,000....and

Axis 201 WT, 239,000

I'm thinking of going w/ the Fine Force, but I want to here some comments on the choice.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

So, I want to start buying the components but I can't read Korean. I look at bb.co.kr and danawa but not sure I'm finding the best prices. What's the best way to go about buying the components I need. If anyone can find the best price for the above components I'd be ever so thankful!

splok · Joined: 30 Jan 2006

I just had one put together in Yongson a couple of weeks ago, SLI mb, 400g hd, 2gig ram, 7900gs 256, assembled and English XP installed, and it was about 850k. No idea about monitors there though.

As for your video card, it depends on what kind of games you want to play and what kind of performance you want to get out of them. A 7600 os probably sufficient for most things, but as you start increasing your resolution and playing more demanding games (and pumping up their quality settings), it ccould start to give you issues. If you look through the tests here ( http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/416/13/ ), you can see that at 1600x1200 even the cheaper 8800's are having problems pulling 40fps. I'm playing Vanguard alot lately, and the above system averages at best 25-30fps at 1280x1024 (and in very uncrowded areas at that).

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Hmmm, where did you have it built? Do you remember the name of the place? Was it a legit copy of windows?

splok · Joined: 30 Jan 2006

well, its pretty hard to give directions to anywhere there, but assuming you can find the general area where all of the hardware booths are set up just outside a building... its in the building, just past the bathrooms... the store is in the middle and goes through from one hall to another. one of the women there speaks pretty good english and will make a list of everything you want in your system, writing it down and checking with you to make sure its what you want. she won't volunteer to have it assembled and tested, but if you ask her to put it together and to put windows on it, she'll have the shop just behind her do it for 40k, and considering the pain in the ass of going there, its WELL worth the price to me just to make sure everything in my box works.

as far as windows being legit... well, once you update it to the point of needing the validation tool, it will tell you that your copy may not be valid, but it doesn't flag it as a pirate copy, and win update will install sp2 on it.

i've had two machines built there in the past year, and i've been happy with both purchases

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Do you have the name of the place from a receipt or something?

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Why do items listed on the danawa and bb.co.kr have the choices STCOM?
I'm looking at p5bdeluxe MB's and some have this -STCOM at the end of the model name/number, some don't...what is it?

http://search.danawa.com/dsearch.php?k1=p5b+deluxe

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

http://www.stcom.co.kr/common_inc/index.asp

They are distributors.

splok · Joined: 30 Jan 2006

ChinaBoy · Joined: 17 Feb 2007

I've got to say that those directions really aren't too clear!!

I guess that's the Sonin Plaza building?

spliff - come one dude, build it yourself! that's what I'm going to be doing.. my first one.. of course, then I'll be back on here a day later saying "How do I build a computer?"