Need advice on building budget gaming rig

• Xaxas

  31 Mar 10, 19:49

  Hi all. As i am new in DIY computers, i would deeply appreciate if you could offer me some advice. My budget for my rig is around 1k or so, i have my monitor  kb and mouse already. Priority goes to processor and graphics and im not sure if gaming relies heavily on processor and graphics.

• MyPillowTalks

  31 Mar 10, 19:53

  Take a look at this thread first:

  DIY PC Configs, Prices, Guides

  Look at the Thousand plus range.

  Are you looking for a graphics card that will support direct X 11? If yes you may need to change to a ATI 5000 series card

  Update us again

• Xaxas

  31 Mar 10, 19:57

  Anyways, im looking @ C2Quad  2.66GHz processor and HD 4890 HDMI. I was wondering if my budget could fit these 2 with the rest of the parts

• kenn3th

  31 Mar 10, 20:00

  Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:

  Take a look at this thread first:

  DIY PC Configs, Prices, Guides

  Look at the Thousand plus range.

  Are you looking for a graphics card that will support direct X 11? If yes you may need to change to a ATI 5000 series card

  Update us again

   we seem to be advertising this thread very very very often.

   

  I wonder who started it...

• MyPillowTalks

  31 Mar 10, 21:12

  Originally posted by Xaxas:

  Anyways, im looking @ C2Quad  2.66GHz processor and HD 4890 HDMI. I was wondering if my budget could fit these 2 with the rest of the parts

  Core 2 quad is phasing out already, you can consider taking a core i7 750 setup, and core i7 750 is a quadcore

  Core i5 750(Quadcore 2.66ghz, 1333mhz fsb, 8mb l2 cache)
  + Gigabyte GA H55M-S2H <<--Click to motherboard's website     ~$438
  Team Elite DDR3-1333   2x2gb                  ~$168
  Seagate 500GB                                            ~$  75
  LG DVD Writer                                              ~$  30
  Andyson F550 550watts                              ~$  95
  HIS 4890                                                        ~$299
  Casing                                                            ~$  80
  Total                                                               ~$1185

  Note that prices will change regularly

   If you really want to cut down, you can just take 2GB of kingston DDR3 ram first, and need not spend $80 on a casing

• MyPillowTalks

  31 Mar 10, 21:14

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

   we seem to be advertising this thread very very very often.

   

  I wonder who started it...

  I duno

  Not me, i just follow the trend

• Xaxas

  31 Mar 10, 22:07

  I have a monitor with HDMI, does it have any compatibility with Gigabyte HD4870 1GB DDR5 HDMI - $295 if i were to get it ?

  If i were to get Windows 7 home 23-bit, is it reQuired to have 4GB in order to run this os ?

• LatecomerX

  31 Mar 10, 22:24

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

   we seem to be advertising this thread very very very often.

   

  I wonder who started it...

  I requested Pillow to start de. There's an influx of people coming here to start DIY PC threads, and I believe the sticky thread created by Pillow as well as posts written by other contributors are detailed and well-written enough to answer most of their queries.

  To thread-starter:
  I'll be locking up this thread. Please continue your discussion at the thread mentioned.

  http://sgforums.com/forums/2250/topics/394643