REply pliz Building my first computer NEED HELP!! somewhat a gaming rig for 900

[mAsTAd]

this is my first computer im building. im trying Ebay because im on a seriuous budget. $900 lol im so poor. well i looked on ebay and came up with a list of parts and prices--

Case- Thermaltake- 115
Motherboard- Intel Desktop Board D875PBZ 100
Hard Drive- SATA Barracuda 80gb 75
RAM- 1gb 125
V.92 Modem- 10
Processor- Pentium 4 3.0 215
Power Supply-500W 30

The graphics card is what im not sure about. I have $230 left for it and I want to get a high end graphics card.

Graphics Card-
Geforce 256mb 5950- 325
Geforce 128mb 5900- 175
Geforce 256mb 5900- 215
Geforce 6800( Yea right)- 750
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb- 175 Cant find 256mb.
Radeon 9800 XT 256mb- 300
Radeon x800- 500

Any suggestions?

 

[Shooters]

Seriously, avoid Ebay like the plague. You have no idea what kind of hell those people may have put that hardware through. You can build yourself a very respectable gaming rig for $900 without having to purchase your components from Ebay.


From Newegg:

P4 2.8C/800MHz FSB Retail: $180
Abit IC7: $109
2x512MB Kingston PC3200: $176
Seagate 80GB/8MB SATA: $75.25
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB: $207
Antec Plus1080AMG w/ 430W PSU: $110

Total: $857.25

You could probably save yourself another $100 if you go with a Barton proc/mobo combo.

 

[Gagabiji]

Here is what I would use do if I were you.

Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive = $65.25 shipped

CHIEFTEC Silver Server Chasis Workstation Tower with Side Panel Window = $70 shipped

ABIT "NF7-S" nForce2 Chipset Motherboard = $86 shipped

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton = $80 shipped

Kingston HyperX 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 = $131 shipped

Antec 430W Power Supply, Model "TRUE430" -RETAIL = $66 shipped

This comes to $480.25 which leaves you $419.75 to blow on a video card. I know it only has 512MB of memory, but you can upgrade that later when you have some more cash. My reason for NOT picking a P4 is because they are really expensive, and Athlon XPs are much nicer to the ol' wallet, and in this case you are on a bit of a budget, so Athlons are obviously the way to go. Just looked, and you can get a ATi Radeon X800 Pro at CompUSA for $399+ tax, and I heard there was a deal so that you could get it for like $350 or something like that, but you will have to look into that your self.

 

[Bucksnort]

Buy on ebay and u may as well throw away the money u have.

 

[DaveSimmons]

eBay = stolen parts, broken parts, remarked CPUs, and seller just disappearing with your cash. The FS/FT forum here is a lot safer, at least if you buy from someone with good Heatware rating.

You really should buy from a trusted vendor like newegg or mwave.

Are you only willing to buy a P4? The Athlon A64 is both faster and cheaper, and the Athlon XP is slower but much cheaper (and is still tremendously faster than a Celeron).

 

[Timandy]

Ebay is risky.. but if you buy someone that has a good selling history, been around for a good long time and has some sort of warentry you up your chances of getting good working components.

I recently rebuilt on of my systems with ebay components. only thing that I did buy at the Fry's was the powersupply.. a good powersupply is Very important. The CPU, MB, graphics card and memory were all got on ebay.. last night I assembeld it and it is working flawlessly.

 

[Gurck]

$900 is more than enough, www.newegg.com

 

[Kaieye]

I like SirDudes suggestion but I would buy the Fry's $79 2600 Barton/ECS combo to save some $$(same goes for the hard drive!) with the Nforce chipset. And then I would purchase the x800 from Best Buy for $359(BO right now). With the $$ you save - I would buy another 512 meg ram stick but I would purchase PC4000 stuff instead of PC3200 DDR. My reasoning is so in about one-two years, I would upgrade to socket 939 when it is out for awhile.

My 2 cents...