Looking at buying a new tower in the next couple of weeks.
Looking at spending 1700-1800 on it.
Needs to have a decent sound card though. If you can fit in a new keyboard and mouse would be good :D

The keyboard and mouse go outside the tower. Outside.


When will people learn?

Well played.

if you're going to build a tower
don't skimp on the dollars
look what happened last time someone built a tower and skimped
http://z.about.com/d/columbusoh/1/7/J/F/tower_piza.jpg

Can build a pretty awesome rig for that price nowadays.

Prices are from MSY:
CPU: Q6600 (~$330)
M/B: Gigabyte P35C-DS3R (~$170)
HDD: WD 500GB Sata HDD (~$130)
GPU: 8800GT (~$350)
RAM: 2GB Kingston DDR2 667 (~$66)
DVD: ASUS/Pioneer etc DVD-RW (~$40-50)
PSU: ~600W PSU.. Corsair/Antec/Thermaltake (~$160)
CASE: Antec 900 - this case has great airflow (~$170)
SOUND: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer (~$155)

Total: $1581 - leaves the rest for OS and KB/mouse

A couple of things:
-If you are planning on overclocking a bit, get DDR2 800 ram instead
-I didn't bother putting 4GB of ram since it's pretty much a waste atm, and since the motherboard has both DDR2 and DDR3 support you will easily be able to upgrade to better ram when DDR3 is more affordable.

last edited by Alt_F4 at 15:20:02 05/Nov/07

-I didn't bother putting 4GB of ram since it's pretty much a waste atm, and since the motherboard has both DDR2 and DDR3 support you will easily be able to upgrade to better ram when DDR3 is more affordable.

well yeah considering os 32bit are capped at 3gb, need 64bit to go +3gb

I just ordered a rig myself similar to that ^

I got the Coolermaster RC690 case though, it's cheap, cools well and has the option of seven case fans. also got the P35-DS3P instead as I'm not interested in DDR3 RAM at the moment.
Oh and yeah I got 800 RAM I'm planning on overclocking Q6600 with 400x7 hopefully I can do this with stock heatsink :S

last edited by Alize` at 15:26:17 05/Nov/07

well yeah considering os 32bit are capped at 3gb, need 64bit to go +3gb

That and even if you can utilize all 4GB, you are going to have to be doing photo editing or running some serious apps to notice a difference between 2gb and 4gb.

Alt-f4 thank you :D but excuse my ignorance but what is MSY?

www.msy.com.au

MSY is a very cheap PC store.

Don't be put off by the ugly website, they are worth visiting and very popular!

PDF parts list here: http://msy.com.au/Parts/msy.htm

they have great customer service too which is just fierce!

"leves the rest for o/s keyboard and mouse"

^^^
who pays for an o/s?
they're free, on the internets


tell them teq sent you

jigzie that 1.2 meg gif is pretty annoying to load

tissue?

Which gif? Is it gone now?

http://www.wedancehard.com/gifs/jigz.gif

disable sigs?

I'll be looking to get a new PC soon enough as well. That PC looks pretty decent alt_f4.

maybe get a decent internet connection ;)

l2encodekthxbi

hehe Fknukle. You still at H.N.? That $228 250gig passport deal is a ripper man!

think i might spash out and get better ram the kingston havnt herd much good stuff about them what would be the recomendations?
might get this case too :D
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=139&bid=2&sid=20996