ĘSiR
01-23-2006, 01:51 PM
I decided not to attempt building my own PC.
*allows time for groaning and general vegetable throwing*
Anyways, thanks to Betty and all that helped in making my decision!
This is what I went with:
www.abs.com
Ultimate M6 Sniper (http://www.abs.com/app/m6s_specs.asp)
CASE:
http://65.119.30.141/Productimage/11-133-132-25.jpg
Mobo: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe NVIDIA nForce4 SLI at full x16 x16 mode AMD Socket 939
Proc: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.6GHz (2 x 1MB) L2 Cache Dual Core
RAM: Quantity 2 of Corsair XMS Xtra-Low Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR 400 2-2-2-5 (Total 2GB)
GFX Card: Quantity 2 of Geforce 7800GTX 256MB/256-bit GDDR3 PCI-E
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 with 1394
Hard Drives: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000RPM 8MB SATA X2 (Raid 0 Striped)
CD/DVD Drive: Sony 16x DVD-ROM Drive (Black Color)
Media Drive: Mitsumi 8-In-1 Card Reader with Floppy Drive Combo
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1 Speaker out of stock Auto-Notify
Free stuff that comes with it:
FREE Far Cry 64-bit Edition ($50 Value)
FREE Microsoft Works 8.0 ($30 Value)
FREE Rise of Nations Game ($30 Value)
FREE Flight Simulator Game ($30 Value)
FREE Age of Empires III ($30 Value)
FREE ABS Graphic T-Shirt ($20 Value)
My goal was to build that best possibly gaming machine for $4,000 (This budget was just for the system, not including another monitor and keyboard/mouse.) I feel like I accomplished just that... as the total bill after shipping NEXT DAY AIR comes to $4,034.99 and I'll have it Jan. 30th (weeks sooner than competitors could offer.
Now I'll just add one of these:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=201935140&loc=101
(Logitech Gaming Keyboard & Mouse)
....with the Best Buy points I have saved up
Only thing left is to find the perfect Gaming Monitor and I'll be set for a very long time. Plus I didn't need to canabalize my old PC, and it will still work fine on games Pre 2006, and will mainly serve as file storage, web surfing, and graphics design.
:nice:
*allows time for groaning and general vegetable throwing*
Anyways, thanks to Betty and all that helped in making my decision!
This is what I went with:
www.abs.com
Ultimate M6 Sniper (http://www.abs.com/app/m6s_specs.asp)
CASE:
http://65.119.30.141/Productimage/11-133-132-25.jpg
Mobo: Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe NVIDIA nForce4 SLI at full x16 x16 mode AMD Socket 939
Proc: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.6GHz (2 x 1MB) L2 Cache Dual Core
RAM: Quantity 2 of Corsair XMS Xtra-Low Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR 400 2-2-2-5 (Total 2GB)
GFX Card: Quantity 2 of Geforce 7800GTX 256MB/256-bit GDDR3 PCI-E
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 with 1394
Hard Drives: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10000RPM 8MB SATA X2 (Raid 0 Striped)
CD/DVD Drive: Sony 16x DVD-ROM Drive (Black Color)
Media Drive: Mitsumi 8-In-1 Card Reader with Floppy Drive Combo
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1 Speaker out of stock Auto-Notify
Free stuff that comes with it:
FREE Far Cry 64-bit Edition ($50 Value)
FREE Microsoft Works 8.0 ($30 Value)
FREE Rise of Nations Game ($30 Value)
FREE Flight Simulator Game ($30 Value)
FREE Age of Empires III ($30 Value)
FREE ABS Graphic T-Shirt ($20 Value)
My goal was to build that best possibly gaming machine for $4,000 (This budget was just for the system, not including another monitor and keyboard/mouse.) I feel like I accomplished just that... as the total bill after shipping NEXT DAY AIR comes to $4,034.99 and I'll have it Jan. 30th (weeks sooner than competitors could offer.
Now I'll just add one of these:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=201935140&loc=101
(Logitech Gaming Keyboard & Mouse)
....with the Best Buy points I have saved up
Only thing left is to find the perfect Gaming Monitor and I'll be set for a very long time. Plus I didn't need to canabalize my old PC, and it will still work fine on games Pre 2006, and will mainly serve as file storage, web surfing, and graphics design.
:nice: