Greatest Christmas Present!

[Jehuty]

At least to me  ;D

if these aren't allowed, someone tell me, and i'll simply put the text on here.




Alright, here's a bite on a few of the things..

The power supply i needed because it has the PCI-E connector that will run my new GeForce 7800GTX, So yeah, i couldn't really find anything with a 6 pin connector, except this, but it was one of the "lower priced" ones, at 600 watts though, you have a slim chance of going wrong

Case, why's it so expensive? Because i want the case, dur.

Quake IV: I want that too, and besides, it's my favorite game series

I'll send you some pictures of it when it gets here or when i open it on chistmas day.

-Jehuty

[Soulmoon]

You don't need to get fancy for the power supply... there is a little adaptor you can buy that will let the old style power cables work for the newer parts. It will cost you about 5 dollars, max, if you have a local computer parts or computer repair shop. I think NewEgg has them for like a buck fifty, but you have to pay shipping.

[Weather_Man]

If it were me...I'd dump the extra 1GB RAM and get the A64 3500+ or 3700+, and/or 1GB XMS3200cl2 RAM instead of value select.

[Politically Incorrect]

IMHO you could have saved some by going with the 7800 GT CO, just as fast as the GTX and you can even overclock it more. At Monarch could have gotten 2-7800 GTs for about $200 more than the price you paid for 1  ;)

A 16MS LCD is going to be slow for gaming especially with Quake, expect some ghosting be sure. For great LCD prices check out ExtremePcGear, i got a 19" Viewsonic VX924 4ms for $374 and absolutly no ghosting at all.

Hope you enjoy your new toy!

[Jehuty]

Ah, got ya'll.

I might switch arround some stuff.. (My budget is 1,500 dollars..) and oddly, my price went down scince yesterday. (It's now 1,319.00)

About the power supply: Yeah, i probably would go get a cheaper power supply (and the little adapter comes with the GTX I'm getting.) but i plan to keep it just i case i get enough money to go SLI (Yeah, i'm an idiot  ;D , but after being on this Pentium III/128 RAM/GeForce 5200 FX for YEARS, i'm not going to hold back on my graphics/power capablities.

About the RAM, i seriously would like to keep the RAM as i would be playing BF2 on this system, alot... but maybe i should upgrade to another processor.

About the Video Card: Like i said above, i wasn't going to hold back on anything on this computer (well... the parts that i want anyways.) And i would have gotten the GeForce 7800 GT CO that had a combo with a EVGA Motherboard, but that went away, so i just said "oh what the hell.." And got the GTX.

About the monitor - Maybe i should upgrade, but right now, what i need is a monitor to use at the moment.. as i'm going to give this computer to my little sister (She won't be doing some extreme gamin on this thing.. Lol.).

Thanks for your opinions though

-Jehuty

PS. I slapped on the 3700 processor to my cart before i'm getting it ordered (i have to get i checked by my dad)

[ctjoyce]

Get one gig of ram not two (you dont need it), and GET A BETTER MONITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No offence but the one you have sucks. 17" 12MS there should be little ghosting with that, and it will be much better for flying

Also go over to frozen CPU and grab a Hyper Type R PSU. IMO best on the market.

Drop the Asus case and grab a Thermatake Tsunami.

Sorry to yell at you, but I just dont want to see you waste money. Oh ya and BF2 will run just fine on 1G dont know what you need the second one for.

Cheers
Cameron

PS wheres your OS??

[Liam]

I would definitely be considering changing the RAM. Remeber it's not always the size which improves performance, it's speed aswell. By downgrading the size to 1gb (which is more than enough for most games), you can upgrade the quality for a probably cheaper price.

[congo]

I don't think you should downgrade the ram, the 7800gtx, a 3700+ and 2gb of ram are a balanced system, your hard disk could be better, say a 160gb or above Seagate SATA with NCQ support or a WD SATA 2 drive.

I like this Epox mainboard, puts you on a more renowned platform:

http://www.epox.com.tw/eng/products_content.php?ps=403

Even 12ms LCD's are crap for fast action, anything less than 8ms is old stock, don't be conned into buying junk.

3 and 4ms LCD's are out now.

You should be able to find a 19" 8ms LCD for a reasonable price if you look.

[Jehuty]

Eh, i would, but all that was trashed.. :S

My dad was like "hrm, waitasecond." and went to dell.com.

he had 3,000 dollars in credit from them anyways..

I'm getting a Dell Dimension XPS with all the same features as my custom one i listed, except:

It's 1 gig less than my version

It's got a 3.2 GHz pentium D Dual Core processor, and i'm kinda scared because i have NO idea how it would work.

And i'm getting a 4ms 19 inch for free.

It's already ordered, so yeah

I plan to put in some Corsair memory into it, 2 Gigs to be exact, save  a little more and put the same memory kit into there, so i total out to 4 Gigs. (Don't wanna be choppy when i play Battlefield 2 Eh? Even though it's kinda excessive  ;D)

So yeah, it cost arround what i wanted for my computer, except it's kinda "Free." from Dell, lol.

-Jehuty

[Delta_]

Thats sounds excellent!
Coupled with the 7800GTX it will run so smooth!  ;)

[Weather_Man]

The Pentium D is a little slower than the AMD chips you were looking at -- especially for gaming. But, the good news is the Pentium D is a great overclocker, which can make up for any shortcomings. The bad news is it's plugged into a Dell, which gives you little to no overclocking options in the BIOS.

But, since it's ordered, don't sweat it. Should be a great rig.

About the 4gigs RAM, don't do it. It will help you not one bit. Nothing you use that PC for will require anywhere near that much, ever. Save that money for quality low-latency RAM, not quantity.

[wealthysoup]

About the 4gigs RAM, don't do it. It will help you not one bit. Nothing you use that PC for will require anywhere near that much, ever.

Sounds like a bet to me weather man  8).
But then again its only a couple of years since 32mb of RAM was considered good.
I think we will probably be using 4 gig in the next 10 or maybe 15 years.

[Politically Incorrect]

That and consider the fact that the new OS Vista will need 1Gig for itself and supposidly will support 128Gigs. The future is upon us
Im in on the bet

[GunnerMan]

Get 2 gigs. I have 1 gig of ram and I REALLY wish I had 2 especialy if I am playin BF2. I recomend you buy OCZ ram and OCZ power supplies. For 2 reasons VERY high quality OCZ products are very highly regarded in the overclocker realm and unparaleled support. They have a forum on their web site where many OCZ reps that spend a lot of time testing setups are there to help. RMAs are not a problem with them, infact if a stick of ram dosen't perform to your standards they will rma it. Corsair was good but really they are selling mediocre products that are over priced and are really not competeing with other companies. Plan on 2 gigs of ram, even if you only buy 1 gig stick now. Trust me I have 1 gig of very high quality ram and I wish I had two. Bf2 runs on full settings but you get some lag at begining and in game occasionaly.
If you can afford a high end psu get it. I hear stories a lot from people who bought cheap psus that have caught on fire and fried their system. Your putting your whole system on that power supply, remember that. OCZ Modstream or Powerstreams are good (get Powerstream if overclocking)
Well just edied my post as I saw your budget. Anyways left whhat I thougt might be most useful...

[congo]

Eh, i would, but all that was trashed.. :S

My dad was like "hrm, waitasecond." and went to dell.com.

he had 3,000 dollars in credit from them anyways..

I'm getting a Dell Dimension XPS ......................

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!




You poor soul.


$3000 in credit with Dell, how the heck did that happen? Did the last Dell computer he had self destruct and burn a whole through his desk?


Oh well, have a good Christmas anyway Jehuty, umm, I'm assuming you are still getting the game right?