Buying a rig

[Davexiii90]

Hello everyone. I would like to see if anyone can give me some help on this, for i have no idea what i am doing. My goal is to purchase a rig in the pricerange of $1000-1250. What I expect of this setup: Be able to run BF2 on all medium/high (Preferably high/high) settings, on at least a 40+ player server, no FPS issues, etc. I do not need much information on cooling, RAM, Hard drives, etc.... Those are things I have enough knowledge on. My main focus on parts will be: What CPU+Motherboard to purchase, what graphics card to buy, etc..... Currently, I have no money, I am 16, have no job, etc...But, I have always pulled through with things- I expect to make a LOT of moolah this winter, and I am confident about the outcome because last winter i made 500 dollars in one day snow shoveling. BUT- that does not meen I will go anywhere higher than the pricerange I have set. Thank you for your help. Also, since I may not have the money until a couple months from now, what parts should I expect price drops in?

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[KrayboX]

Re: Buying a rig

gimme old one =]

[Nadokings]

Re: Buying a rig

ok heres mine for 1000:
COSAIR 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 DC(ram)
AMDTHLON 64 X2 4800+(cpu)
LITE-ON 16X DVD/R DVD BURNER(disk drive)
POWMAX CP803 CASE(case)
WD Cavier RE 160GB 7200RPM SATA(hd)
ABIT AN9 32X Socket AM2 Nvidia nForce 590 w/ SLI (mobo)
2 eVGA 512-P2-N548-TX Geforce 7600GS 512MB GDDR2-graphics card (SLI Mode)
Rosewill RCX-Z1 92MM-heatsink

[Davexiii90]

Re: Buying a rig

cool thanks, keep the rigs coming! by the way, what settings do you play on?

[Zanzibar_rocker]

Re: Buying a rig

Get an Anthlon 6400 3.4 ghz

[Nadokings]

Re: Buying a rig

wow
lol>? dual core? your crazy!

[heetseeker]

Re: Buying a rig

ya that whole system for only 1000... dual core...dual video cards umm i think the price would be a lot higher.

[GeoffRowley]

Re: Buying a rig

I'd say get the 7900gt for the price of 2 7600gs

[djk12587]

Re: Buying a rig

the right decision would to pick up an e6600 or other core2duo.... although the easiest build would be a SOCKET 939 AMD ATHLON 64 BUILD. Just make sure to get 2 gb of ram

I would get:

opteron 165
dfi or asus mobo socket 939
2 GB (2 x 1gb sticks) of ddr ram (pc 4000 preferably)
7900 gs
250 gb sata2 hdd
600 w PSU

If you go core2duo, you would need ddr2 ram.

make sure you go dual core though

As far as price drops go...
"x" video card now is not nearly as valuable 3 months from now.
RAM is crazy expensive right now, not sure if it will go down though anytime soon
s939 processors have already taken huge price cuts, an opty 165 is only 160 at newegg right now, with good steppings, its crazy, glad i got one.

[Davexiii90]

Re: Buying a rig

But I thought BF2 is not able to utilize dual core correctly? and 1.8ghz for opteron 165, i meen wow...i already have a 1.8ghz processor and it SUCKS with BF2...

[AlexIsUber]

Re: Buying a rig

ok heres mine for 1000:
COSAIR 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 DC(ram)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.6 GHz
LITE-ON 16X DVD/R DVD BURNER(disk drive)
POWMAX CP803 CASE(case)
WD Cavier RE 160GB 7200RPM SATA(hd)
ABIT AN9 32X Socket AM2 Nvidia nForce 590 w/ SLI (mobo)
2 eVGA 512-P2-N548-TX Geforce 7600GS 512MB GDDR2-graphics card (SLI Mode)
Rosewill RCX-Z1 92MM-heatsink

INTEL....is best right now and cheap.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Buying a rig

Antec Sonata II case because it is a VERY well built case and comes with a decent 450W PSU - $100 ($50 after $50 rebate)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129155

HIS x1950xt for $269 ($249 after $20 rebate) You nVidia devotees can flame away, but the x1950xt is a speed demon at the right price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161047

Core2 duo E6400 $217 (6600 w/2M cache per core v 1M/core is not worth the extra ~$100 imho)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115004

Motherboard: plan on spending ~$80-$120, and which one will depend on what's out there for the price at the exact time that you buy
edit: i would lean towards this ABIT mATX board if I was plopping down my hard earned dough:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127005

Memory: 2x1gb (because you need 2 gigs) Corsair 800mhz for $269 ($229 w/$40 rebate)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145590

Hard drive: Samsung 250gb for $71 (I've never had one fail, they are reasonably fast, very, very quiet, and have a GREAT price. If you're brave, get two, stripe them, and get super quick 500gb capacity for $142.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822152025

Optical drive: Samsung (duh ) DVDR/RW for $32

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151136

$100 case
120 mobo
269 mem
269 gpu
217 cpu
71 hd
32 optical
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1078


Total price: $1078 plus shipping (assuming you go for a high-mid end mobo at $120). Mail the frickering rebates in, and total cost will be $968; use them to buy an extra 120mm fan for the case, and a Zalman CPU cooler and a Zalman gpu cooler (vf900CU), or buy that extra hd and stripe them for raptor-like data transfers.

For just over a thousand bucks, the battlefield is your oyster.