Possibly a new build for fall semester

roguerower

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I'm entering my junior year at college and my laptop is starting to show it's age and I happen to have some left over money that I am thinking towards putting towards a new PC for the upcoming games (crysis, etc.). I have a max budget of about $1k but can go slightly over.

I'd prefer a cube since I will be transporting this thing to and from school and since I have family living overseas in germany it'll have to fly with me.

I'm asking for help b/c I haven't paid attention to the new tech that is out there (lost interest after I built my family's pc, prescott, x800, all outdated stuff).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I have a mouse, speakers, monitor, keyboard
EDIT 2: I also have the OS and Office 07
 

JustaGeek

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I would strongly recommend an HP laptop with Core Duo, or Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and ~160GB hard drive, and dedicated 256MB of Video Memory (if you want to be able to play some games - GeForce Go 7600 will be fine)

You can find something in ~1K range, and you'll be amazed how fast they are compared to the rigs in your sig.

Good luck!

UPDATE: for Crysis you'll need WAY more than 7600, 8800GTS might not even be enough.
Pretty hard within your budget, but read this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2075027&enterthread=y
 

roguerower

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I don't want to replace a laptop with another laptop. The reason I'm going for a desktop is for the power vs. cost
 

LOUISSSSS

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first we need to know what resolution ur going to be using it at and what ur going to do with it. if gaming... then

1. gigabyte ds3r: $130
2. intel Q6600: $300
3. any $250-$300 video card u want. depending on what OS you're using.
4. 2 x 1gb DDR2 800 of any ram: $75
5. Corsaid 520HX: $115
6. HD: any Sata drive with 16mb of cache that you'll need.

comes out to roughly 1k

u can drop the Q6600 quad core for a lower end dual core to bump up any of the other components