My son's birthday is March 15th. Right now he plays WarCraft III on a Celeron 900, 256MB SDRAM with Radeon 7000, using an Asus CUSL mobo.
If there was a decent Dell deal on a Dimension 4600, I'd just buy that. As it is, there's only a warm deal on the Dimension 2400. If there's a PCI based video card that can run Doom3, I'll just buy that card and the 2400.
I need a mobo, CPU, memory, PS or case, and video card capable of running Doom3 at a decent resolution with FX. It's only got a 17" monitor, so 1024x768 is OK. I'll pay the premium for Intel, but I want to find the best bang for the buck to accomplish this. Can it be done for under $300.00? Any more than that, and I'll wait for a Dimension 4600 hot deal.
Thanks?
Edit - April 13th Update:
If there was a decent Dell deal on a Dimension 4600, I'd just buy that. As it is, there's only a warm deal on the Dimension 2400. If there's a PCI based video card that can run Doom3, I'll just buy that card and the 2400.
I need a mobo, CPU, memory, PS or case, and video card capable of running Doom3 at a decent resolution with FX. It's only got a 17" monitor, so 1024x768 is OK. I'll pay the premium for Intel, but I want to find the best bang for the buck to accomplish this. Can it be done for under $300.00? Any more than that, and I'll wait for a Dimension 4600 hot deal.
Thanks?
Edit - April 13th Update:
- Two-Day Dimension 4600 Desktop Deal! $399 AR, Free Shipping
Not as good as that last deal, but my sister will be ording this tonight. Depending on whether we can get Dell to sweeten the deal, I'll order one too. (Yes, it has an AGP slot.)
- I just finished rereading this ENTIRE thread. I didn't buy that last Dell deal on the 13th, as a few of my friends did. I didn't really need it at the time, so I held off. Now I'd like to get that same deal for my older son, who is having a graduation party in one month. Naturally, the latest deal ain't so great. It's $75.00 more than I could have gotten it for last month!
I've got 4 weeks for a better deal to come along from them, or I'll have to build. That's why I read the thread over again, to see the different configurations. Just wanted you to know, NONE of the configurations you took the time to compile, were in vain.
Thanks loads!