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Re: Buying a new Gaming PC
Old 08-10-2011, 12:51 PM   #6
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Default Re: Buying a new Gaming PC

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Originally Posted by Blix View Post
My advice is to build your own rig. You have to do some research (which is always a good thing) and putting a computer together is easy and there's lots of videos and articles on youtube, ign and pretty much every computer website has an (obligatory) article on how to do it.


Edit: BTW Agrist, for $100 I think he can get a really good pc if he just reuses the case (the S&H on those is expensive) and maybe the hard drive and DVD burner. A really good gaming card goes for $300 and a good motherboard, I'd say, $200.
I think 300 for a good card is steep.

Maybe if you're doing nVidia rigs. nVidia cards are really expensive in my experience. I mean, I have an 8800 now since I haven't upgraded in about 2-3 years, but when I build my new rig, I'm going ATi. I just looked yesterday and an XFX 6750 with 1GB of GDDR5 256-bit RAM and Eyefinity for 170. That's a pretty damn good card, and if you're concerned about a little bit of future proofing a second one is pretty cheap so you can do CrossfireX with it.

CrosssfireX works a lot better for me too because SLi actually doesn't support dual monitors. I kinda need that, my PC doubles as a media center in my bedroom as well.
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