Hello.
I'm looking into building a gaming pc. I'm very pressed for time which I will explain why later.
Any way I live in Macedonia and don't possess much knowledge when in comes to pc building nor do I follow and am up to date with new and current pc components.
So I'm looking for some advice in building a pc for gaming.
Like I said above I'm in a big hurry. You see our government gives out coupons to last year students in value of 250 euro to buy a pc. The catch is I have to buy it in 8 days. I'm planning of adding 400 euros of my own. So my budget is around 650 euros which is around 850$.
I was looking in my local shops this week. And two pre-build PCs caught my eye:
iPentium Q6600 CORE 2 QUAD 2.4G 8M 1066
MB: ASUS P5QL PRO LGA775 1600
4 GB RAM DDR2 800MHz
ASUS GeForce9800GT 1Gb DD3 256bit
HDD 500GB SATA II 7200rpm
From this shop:
http://www.set.com.mk/setClient/products.asp (the site is in English)
and this
Intel Core2Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 8MB 12/1333Mhz
MB MSI Intel P45 NEO-F
HDD 500GB - RAMDR2 4GB/800
VGA MSI N9500GT-MD1GB OC edition
Sound Blaster 7.1
I'm not sure about the VGA on this one, this is what the store had for other VGAs
Also a friend recommends this PC:
GeForce 9800GTX+, 512MB DDR3 256 bit,
HDD 500GB Seagate 7200rpm 32MB SATA-II
P5Q, LGA775, Intel P45
Corsair 4GB 800MHz TWIN2X4096-6400C5 20 DDR2
CM eXtreme Power 460W (RS-460-PCAPA3-EU)
E8400 CORE 2 DUO 3.0G 6MB 1333
A lot of people are giving me conflicting reports about if I should get a Duo or Quad Core.
As I understand the Duos are better for gaming currently, but are not future proof. I've read many say in the future more games will utilize the Quad better. But I've got a group of people telling me they've been saying that for some time now and nothing has come of it.
So is it better to get Duo or Quad?
Also I'm confused about what VGA to get. Some tell me the GeForce 9800GTX+, 512MB DDR3 256 bit others say ATI HD 4850. I have one guy telling me GeForce9800GT 1Gb because it has more RAM than the 9800GTX+. I?ve read the GTX+ is way better than the GT.
Is RAM very important when looking at graphic cards?
I have not brand preference, as I said I don't possess too much knowledge to have a preference. And I may look into over clocking in the future. But not soon (year or so).
If anyone has some free to offer me advice I would greatly appreciate it. I'm looking into building a PC that will last me like 3 years, before replacing it.
I keeping my current monitor for my new pc so that?s not a concern.
Thanks in advance
I'm looking into building a gaming pc. I'm very pressed for time which I will explain why later.
Any way I live in Macedonia and don't possess much knowledge when in comes to pc building nor do I follow and am up to date with new and current pc components.
So I'm looking for some advice in building a pc for gaming.
Like I said above I'm in a big hurry. You see our government gives out coupons to last year students in value of 250 euro to buy a pc. The catch is I have to buy it in 8 days. I'm planning of adding 400 euros of my own. So my budget is around 650 euros which is around 850$.
I was looking in my local shops this week. And two pre-build PCs caught my eye:
iPentium Q6600 CORE 2 QUAD 2.4G 8M 1066
MB: ASUS P5QL PRO LGA775 1600
4 GB RAM DDR2 800MHz
ASUS GeForce9800GT 1Gb DD3 256bit
HDD 500GB SATA II 7200rpm
From this shop:
http://www.set.com.mk/setClient/products.asp (the site is in English)
and this
Intel Core2Quad Q9400 2.66GHz 8MB 12/1333Mhz
MB MSI Intel P45 NEO-F
HDD 500GB - RAMDR2 4GB/800
VGA MSI N9500GT-MD1GB OC edition
Sound Blaster 7.1
I'm not sure about the VGA on this one, this is what the store had for other VGAs
Also a friend recommends this PC:
GeForce 9800GTX+, 512MB DDR3 256 bit,
HDD 500GB Seagate 7200rpm 32MB SATA-II
P5Q, LGA775, Intel P45
Corsair 4GB 800MHz TWIN2X4096-6400C5 20 DDR2
CM eXtreme Power 460W (RS-460-PCAPA3-EU)
E8400 CORE 2 DUO 3.0G 6MB 1333
A lot of people are giving me conflicting reports about if I should get a Duo or Quad Core.
As I understand the Duos are better for gaming currently, but are not future proof. I've read many say in the future more games will utilize the Quad better. But I've got a group of people telling me they've been saying that for some time now and nothing has come of it.
So is it better to get Duo or Quad?
Also I'm confused about what VGA to get. Some tell me the GeForce 9800GTX+, 512MB DDR3 256 bit others say ATI HD 4850. I have one guy telling me GeForce9800GT 1Gb because it has more RAM than the 9800GTX+. I?ve read the GTX+ is way better than the GT.
Is RAM very important when looking at graphic cards?
I have not brand preference, as I said I don't possess too much knowledge to have a preference. And I may look into over clocking in the future. But not soon (year or so).
If anyone has some free to offer me advice I would greatly appreciate it. I'm looking into building a PC that will last me like 3 years, before replacing it.
I keeping my current monitor for my new pc so that?s not a concern.
Thanks in advance