- Jun 23, 2006
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Alright, I'm planning on building a new computer in the next few weeks, and a friend told me this would be a good place to look for advice. There is a $2000 limit. I need a monitor along with the computer. One important thing to take into account: I am by no means a computer guru, I don't know a hell of a lot about all this and want to keep things pretty simple. Things to take into consideration:
- I want to stick mainly to newegg for buying unless there is a drastic price difference.
- For the time being this is primarily a gaming pc, it needs to be able to run at least CS:S at very close to max settings, and hopefully a game such as UT2007 in the near future at fairly good settings.
- Probably an AMD chipset, UNLESS you think that new Conroe from intel would be better spent money.
- I'm not gonna be doing any overclocking, so don't worry about that.
- I would like at least a 150 GB harddrive.
- Like I said, I don't know a whole lot about computers, so I need to be able to take care of it pretty easily.
- The case certainly doesn't need to be all fancy or anything.
- One thing I WOULD like on the case is a front temperature display.
- The quieter everything runs, the better, BUT I do not want to compromise performance for quiet-ness.
- Just a regular CD/DVD drive is fine, I don't need a DVD burner or something.
That's about all the details I can think of. I'd assume you guys know this, but post links to the parts! Thanks for replies, I really appreciate the help
Edit* P.S. Don't worry about me having setup problems, I know the basics of putting everything together, and have several friends who have done it before.
- I want to stick mainly to newegg for buying unless there is a drastic price difference.
- For the time being this is primarily a gaming pc, it needs to be able to run at least CS:S at very close to max settings, and hopefully a game such as UT2007 in the near future at fairly good settings.
- Probably an AMD chipset, UNLESS you think that new Conroe from intel would be better spent money.
- I'm not gonna be doing any overclocking, so don't worry about that.
- I would like at least a 150 GB harddrive.
- Like I said, I don't know a whole lot about computers, so I need to be able to take care of it pretty easily.
- The case certainly doesn't need to be all fancy or anything.
- One thing I WOULD like on the case is a front temperature display.
- The quieter everything runs, the better, BUT I do not want to compromise performance for quiet-ness.
- Just a regular CD/DVD drive is fine, I don't need a DVD burner or something.
That's about all the details I can think of. I'd assume you guys know this, but post links to the parts! Thanks for replies, I really appreciate the help
Edit* P.S. Don't worry about me having setup problems, I know the basics of putting everything together, and have several friends who have done it before.