What would you buy with 1500?

[Noobtastic]

Just curious, if you were to build...what would you buy...


Keep in mind:

-This is a gaming computer

-You will mainly be playing BF2 (hint*2 gigs of ram*hint)



This will really help my decision, thanks for any replys.


EDIT: Oh this excludes moniter, key board...etc..

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Will you be overclocking (*hint**you should**hint)?

 

[Eureka]

3.6ghz p4... 2 gig RAM... 6800GT... Something along those lines should be fine for Battlefield 2. Maybe a 6800 Ultra or 7800GT if you can really afford it.

Norm

 

[Hacp]

How about I don't play BF2 and you can't tell me what to do???

 

[Noobtastic]

Originally posted by: Hacp
How about I don't play BF2 and you can't tell me what to do???

Its hyphethiclly speaking, im not trying to be a power whore.


Pentium or AMD?

Which is better? I open to both...

Remember, Ill be playing BF2 ONLY....so which ever cpu runs better thats the one im getting.

I was gonna get AMD but Im not sure which runs the best!

I may overclock, but for now lets put N/A in that option.

 

[Eureka]

P4 is more stable... AMD is easier to overclock. AMD is cheaper... P4 is more expensive. Both should run BF2 fairly well. I'd stay stick with P4s, every person I've talked to who knows what they're doing recommends P4.

Norm

 

[Twistah]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
P4 is more stable... AMD is easier to overclock. AMD is cheaper... P4 is more expensive. Both should run BF2 fairly well. I'd stay stick with P4s, every person I've talked to who knows what they're doing recommends P4.

Norm

P4 is more stable? Where did you get that from? Go AMD m8. At this moment they're ahead in the game. They generally overclock well, produce less heat compared to P4 and indeed are a bit cheaper (unless you count in dual core, where AMD's only "cheap" offering is the X2 3800 compared to intel, though AMD's dual core procs smoke Intel's performance-wise).

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
P4 is more stable... AMD is easier to overclock. AMD is cheaper... P4 is more expensive. Both should run BF2 fairly well. I'd stay stick with P4s, every person I've talked to who knows what they're doing recommends P4.

Norm

:roll: And where did you get this information...

Athlon 64 >>>>>>>>>> Pentium 4, especially for gaming. Stability is in the quality of your parts (mobo, PSU, etc), and not really dependant on your CPU... Athlon 64's are much cheaper, consume less energy, run a lot cooler, which allows for much higher overclocks, and of course, they completely rape Pentium 4's in games. Pentium 4's are only for people that want to multitask a lot (CAD, video encoding, etc). Go with something like this:

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice/3000+ Venice if you want to overclock more
EPoX 9nPA+ Ultra/MSI Neo4 Platinum/DFI Lanparty Ultra-D are all very nice boards
2GB Corsiar ValueSelect/Crucial Value/OCZ Value
7800GT/GTX
Nice alluminum case
450W Fortron with dual +12V rails @ Newegg
NEC 3540A DVD +/- Burner
Seagate 7200RPM 8MB cache SATA Hard Drive

Something along these lines...

 

[mdchesne]

same what I have now, but I'd upgrade the vid card to a 7800gt and the ram to something with tighter timings (or 2 gigs, w/e i feel like). 1500 to spend, meaning minus monitor and peripherals i assume

 

[Stas]

"P4 is more stable... "
LMAO, dude, are you doped up or something?
Athlon64 beats P4 anytime anywhere (unless it's video encoding).

"Noobtastic"
For gaming you definitely wanna go with AMD. Get like 3800+ for dual core or, as been mentioned before, 3000/3200 Venice. Get 7800 GT as well. You can find good deals that would give you an SLi (which isn't crucial anyway, however expansive) mobo and a 7800GT for around $400.