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best computer for 1500 to 1800 dollars

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moonyangel

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I have 1500 to 1800 to spend on a computer im into first person shooters i want fast and will learn to overclock if need be. what about the pentium 2.6c ,asus p4c 800 deluxe and corsair xms twin3700 and the saphire 256 radion????/i have a good moniter keyboard and all that stuff please help cause i dont want to piddle my hard earned money away. thank oh great computer geniuses!!!!!!!!!!
 
"and will learn to overclock if need be"

this kinda scared me. first off, buying a pc is a lot of personal opinion, your going to be told 20 different things by 20 different people. i personall think AMD is the king of mid-grade,which is what your aiming for, however Intel is making a point to elbow in. Take your pick.

If you want a nice pre-built pc checkout BuyABS.com, i bought a pc from them awhile ago,its still* chuggin along very well,never a problem. they make great quality pcs with non-OEM parts unlike Dell. Their pricing is also very reasonable.
 
Get the 2.8c for a few dollars more, also get the audigy 2 z.s Gamer edition, that card has five games and four of them kick ash. Also get the 9800pro 128mb sapphire card from newegg for a alittle over $210. Its like one hundred dollars cheaper then the 256 mb version, and you can save that money for the next generation ATi card.
 
you obviously dont know anything about computers, let alone making one. save yourself a headache and buy a pre-built...
 
Check out Anandtech's buyer guides. link. For what you're doing, I'd say aim for some combination of the Mid-Range and Cutting-Edge systems.

And I'll give you three things of advice for building your first system:
1) save some money, don't spend it all because you will invariably do something wrong and have to replace something (I blew $600 of stuff in the first month after I built my computer because of a stupid mistake)
2) be prepared to spend alot of time and frustration on your computer. While you'll get the satisfaction of having a computer that is exactly what you want, it'll probably take you about 6 months to get there on your first attempt. If you aren't willing to do this, buy a Dell, or ABS, ElitePC, or any other of the smaller manufacturers.
3) READ EVERYTHING. Find a website (Anandtech, Tomshardware, ardOCP, etc) that suits your fancy, and read everything they publish. Read their reviews, and decide what you think would be best for you to have in your computer. Or, once you've got your computer, just read the previews, and the news articles to keep up to date.

Like the other people have said, everyone has their own "perfect system" You've just got to read the reviews, look at the specs, maybe ask some questions about hardware... what's the most reliable, etc, but ultimately you've got to decide what YOU want in your computer... do you want 64-bit? dual-LAN? SATA? AMD or Intel? ultimately, it comes down to personal choice.

also, keep in mind that everyone has to start somewhere. probably most of the people on these forums didn't know about overclocking at one point or another either.

good luck.
 
Originally posted by: shady06
www.abscomputer.com
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You don't know enough about computers (especially the keyboard, yours is overclocked too far already) to be building your own.
 
Originally posted by: WW2Planes1
Check out Anandtech's buyer guides. <a class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.anandtech.com/guides/index.html" target=blank>link</a>. For what you're doing, I'd say aim for some combination of the Mid-Range and Cutting-Edge systems.

And I'll give you three things of advice for building your first system:
1) save some money, don't spend it all because you will invariably do something wrong and have to replace something (I blew $600 of stuff in the first month after I built my computer because of a stupid mistake)
2) be prepared to spend alot of time and frustration on your computer. While you'll get the satisfaction of having a computer that is exactly what you want, it'll probably take you about 6 months to get there on your first attempt. If you aren't willing to do this, buy a Dell, or ABS, ElitePC, or any other of the smaller manufacturers.
3) READ EVERYTHING. Find a website (Anandtech, Tomshardware, ardOCP, etc) that suits your fancy, and read everything they publish. Read their reviews, and decide what you think would be best for you to have in your computer. Or, once you've got your computer, just read the previews, and the news articles to keep up to date.

Like the other people have said, everyone has their own "perfect system" You've just got to read the reviews, look at the specs, maybe ask some questions about hardware... what's the most reliable, etc, but ultimately you've got to decide what YOU want in your computer... do you want 64-bit? dual-LAN? SATA? AMD or Intel? ultimately, it comes down to personal choice.

also, keep in mind that everyone has to start somewhere. probably most of the people on these forums didn't know about overclocking at one point or another either.

good luck.
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This is good advice. At least it's advice and not the rude "you don't know anything" comments I see above. I thought this forum was to HELP ppl, not put them down. If he wants to build, let him build. It ain't rocket science.
 
Get one prebuilt now, or hang around the forums for a bit and pick up some advice for building your own. The nextgen video cards will be coming out soon, so at this point I would wait for a couple months... building your own computer is not that difficult but you should be somewhat comfortable with what you are doing. I personally would go with an amd64 if I were going to do a build now, so you might want to consider that option.
 
boy I'm glad I didn't mention I've only built one computer in any of my 7 posts. Seriously guys why do you tell anybody who isn't an overclocking expert that they should buy a dell, but anybody who wants to get a good system for games and has an understanding of hardware and where to buy it automatically gets bombarded with responses of A64 this, overclocked mobile processor that. Funny thing is most of the time people either don't entirely read the original post before mouthing off some techno-drabble about clock cycles or a 3dmark2003 score, or they just repeat the same cliche phrases about one product's superiority.

My advice is to go to an online storehouse (if you don't know of one keep reading and discover the search function) and look at all the motherboards that are out there, all the processors, the different memory, harddrives, video cards, etc, etc, etc. If you've got a question about a specific video card or a brand of memory use the search function as it's alot more reliable and less biased than replies to an honest question. If you want to know about emerging technology such as 64bit processing platforms go to the reviews from the main page don't bother with the forums as they are filled mostly with hearsay and speculation.

Building a computer is pretty simple, all you do is put card a in slot a, processor a in socket a and attach cord a to drive a and socket a. The software stuff you can figure out if you can figure out how to install a game. Oh and most hardware comes with a manual that is marginally useful incase you get really confused. The only real trick is deciding on what buzzwords you want your system to have and what side of the fence you want to be on in the brand war.

I though this discussion was slightly more adult than the other discussion boards out there, I'm sorry to say I've discovered that while this may be true there are some who pass themselves off as being a fair bit better than the rest of us, who have a careear and family and don't necessarily have the time to sit and make buddies in a glorified chat room.

 
Thankyou all for your advice. i feel much better about the whole new adventure of building my computer. double thanks to you bonesdad!! too cool. this is going to be a blast. cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
you obviously dont know anything about computers, let alone making one. save yourself a headache and buy a pre-built...
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Yep. Go buy an E-machine. Better yet, a X-BOX, and save even more $$$...
 
1800 bucks and I was a big gamer??? I would get an AMD64 3000+ or 3200+ (if the price/performance ratio was better), at least 512mb of pc3200, Radeon 9800pro or XT version

If you want to oc, which I am confused cause you seem to suggest that with the mention of PC3700 on a dual channel mobo with an 800fsb chip...😕 If you don't, do not waste the money on pc3700....If you want to OC get a shuttle board for the A64 (talk to shimmishim he will set you up)....

1500-1800 dollars can easily buy a high end PC so it would be foolish to suggest anything other then a A64 system at this time, as they reign supreme in gaming......

With this type of budget I think a DVD burner could be added as well as another 512mb of ram....

Good luck!!!
 
Originally posted by: shady06
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: shady06
www.abscomputer.com
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You don't know enough about computers (especially the keyboard, yours is overclocked too far already) to be building your own.
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You can't tell from his posts that his keyboard is artifacting badly? 😛
 
just take your time to build your computer.. and come back here to ask questions if you run into probs... there are a lot of ppl that would be more than happy to help you..
I wouldn't suggest you to go the overclock route just yet. because it could raise probs that you are not prepared for at this time. For gaming.. get AMD 64 3000. or maybe 3200 if you have the money.

Oh. and $1800 is a lot of money... I spent 1100 to build my 1st computer which was P4 3.2C on P4C800E deluxe. Zalman 7000,& 1024MB Corsair mem, 74GB Raptor all wrapped in Antec 1080AMG.
 
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