Most powerfull desktop for $800?

[Cadop]

My budget right now is only $800. I love playing games so I need to find the most powerfull machine I can build for gaming as close to $800 as possible.

Any suggestions from the pros?

 

[rise]

well, what do you have to work with, anything? k/b, monitor, OS, drives? or is it all from scratch?

 

[Cadop]

Hmm, good point. Let's just do hardware for now. Let's not do any KB, mouse, monitor, just everyhting inside the tower(including the tower).

 

[Akhen]

are you confortable building your own computer?
cause with 800 bucks for just the tower you can get yourself
some very good stuff.

 

[Cadop]

Yeah, I am more than capable of building a PC. I'm just not too sure on prices and performance right now. I haven't kept up much. I'm trying to spec out a PC for my little brothers teacher. Just trying to get some ideas because I have none.

 

[Cadop]

Bump for morning crew.

 

[thesurge]

I am thinking-

AMD 3000+ or 3200+ Venice (E3)
Sky Hawk MSR or Antec Super Lanboy
FSP (fortron) 400w
Connect3d x800GTO
ePox nforce4 ultra
200gb 7200.8
2x512 Corsair Value Ram
NEC 3550a

That should fit nicely into your budget.

 

[nick1985]

Case - Antec Sonata II, w/ 450 watt PSU $80 (AR)

Lite-on black DVD Burner $40

Hard Drive - 160Gb Hitachi 8meg cache $74

RAM - 1Gb of Corsair VS $73

CPU - Athlon64 3200 Venice retail $166

Motherboard - Chaintech Nforce4 Ultra $68

Video Card - EVGA 7800GT $279 (AR)

Total: $780

Shipping should take you a little past $800, but overall this rig is a good "$800" machine.

 

[Cadop]

Thanks for the input guys, those both look good.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: nick1985
Case - Antec Sonata II, w/ 450 watt PSU $80 (AR)

Lite-on black DVD Burner $40

Hard Drive - 160Gb Hitachi 8meg cache $74

RAM - 1Gb of Corsair VS $73

CPU - Athlon64 3200 Venice retail $166

Motherboard - Chaintech Nforce4 Ultra $68

Video Card - EVGA 7800GT $279 (AR)

Total: $780

Shipping should take you a little past $800, but overall this rig is a good "$800" machine.

my god ! :thumbsup:

 

[yankeesfan]

Originally posted by: nick1985
Case - Antec Sonata II, w/ 450 watt PSU $80 (AR)

Lite-on black DVD Burner $40

Hard Drive - 160Gb Hitachi 8meg cache $74

RAM - 1Gb of Corsair VS $73

CPU - Athlon64 3200 Venice retail $166

Motherboard - Chaintech Nforce4 Ultra $68

Video Card - EVGA 7800GT $279 (AR)

Total: $780

Shipping should take you a little past $800, but overall this rig is a good "$800" machine.

:thumbsup:

That looks really nice. That's the way I'd go.