October 29, 200817 yr Yeah I wasn't sure how much power a GTX280 would take up, and it's always good to leave some room open for upgrades in the future. Well, i checked around a bit just now. http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26123 - 750W should be fine. Seems lower power PSU's haven't been tested with 280 in SLI. Altho (i've got two altho's) - I'd get a bit more power to be on the *safe* side and to be able to upgrade with some more hd's. Second altho - If he want SLI i really wouldn't recommend it due to the price. I'd recommend a 4870x2 instead, but that's me. I'll stop babbeling now. J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff moviesJe trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vieJe ne me reconnais plus dans les gensJe suis juste un cas désespérantEt comme personne ne viendra me réclamerJe terminerai comme un objet retrouvé
November 1, 200817 yr Author This is what I would do with a budget of $2,000 like you said. CPU- E8400 Core2duo Mobo- EVGA 780i (CPU + Mobo combo deal) $369 GPU- GTX280 1GB $390 RAM- Corsair 4GB (2x 2GB) $45 PSU- Thermaltank 750W $110 Case- ENERMAX Full ATX $85 HD- Western Digital 640GB $75 Monitor- ACER Black 24" 1920x1080 $290 OS- Vista 64bit home premium $99 Total: $1463 Sounds good, but i would like 8 GB ram. Can the motherboard support that? Also maybe a bigger hard drive ??
November 2, 200817 yr This is what I would do with a budget of $2,000 like you said. CPU- E8400 Core2duo Mobo- EVGA 780i (CPU + Mobo combo deal) $369 GPU- GTX280 1GB $390 RAM- Corsair 4GB (2x 2GB) $45 PSU- Thermaltank 750W $110 Case- ENERMAX Full ATX $85 HD- Western Digital 640GB $75 Monitor- ACER Black 24" 1920x1080 $290 OS- Vista 64bit home premium $99 Total: $1463 Sounds good, but i would like 8 GB ram. Can the motherboard support that? Also maybe a bigger hard drive ?? You don't need 8GB of ram, it's a waste of money. 1.5TB Hard Drive ($179) Big enough for you?
November 6, 200817 yr Author 1.5 TB is great. ID just like 8gb ram, so Its there for the future, rather than having to get a whole new motherboard when i need it
November 6, 200817 yr 1.5 TB is great. ID just like 8gb ram, so Its there for the future, rather than having to get a whole new motherboard when i need it You will need a new motherboard when upgrading anyways... Because both Amd/Intel will launch new cpu's during the next year. Socket 775 will stopped being produced next autumn (since Intel will have launched their new mainstream cpu's then)... And AMD will introduce the new AM3 socket. And to be honest, you won't need 8gb. You need it for heavy programs (cad.. etc) or if you have a [cabbage]load of different programs running at the same time. But it's up to you. 4gb will go a long way. And DDR2 will slowly make way for DDR3. J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff moviesJe trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vieJe ne me reconnais plus dans les gensJe suis juste un cas désespérantEt comme personne ne viendra me réclamerJe terminerai comme un objet retrouvé
November 6, 200817 yr 1.5 TB is great. ID just like 8gb ram, so Its there for the future, rather than having to get a whole new motherboard when i need it You will need a new motherboard when upgrading anyways... Because both Amd/Intel will launch new cpu's during the next year. Socket 775 will stopped being produced next autumn (since Intel will have launched their new mainstream cpu's then)... And AMD will introduce the new AM3 socket. And to be honest, you won't need 8gb. You need it for heavy programs (cad.. etc) or if you have a [cabbage] of different programs running at the same time. But it's up to you. 4gb will go a long way. And DDR2 will slowly make way for DDR3. I'll second the fact you won't need 8 gigs of RAM. Its really overkill. I help maintain computers for a CAD class and they run on 4 gigs flawlessly. You'll see the most bang for your buck ~2 gigs, but past that the performance increases is very minimal for general computing.
November 7, 200817 yr Look. If you're dead set on wasting money on 8GB than just order another pair of the Corsair RAM... :roll: Even though it is completely unnecessary and you'll never notice a difference.
November 9, 200817 yr if you can wait a couple days, wait until the end of this month, intel's new stock is coming out... with an extra channel of DDR and a new FSB technology, it blows anything AMD can put forth right out of the water. core i7 is it's ticker... read some reviews, AMD cannot really compete. for graphics, go for a 260... if not a 260, go for an ATI 4850...
November 9, 200817 yr if you can wait a couple days, wait until the end of this month, intel's new stock is coming out... with an extra channel of DDR and a new FSB technology, it blows anything AMD can put forth right out of the water. core i7 is it's ticker... read some reviews, AMD cannot really compete. for graphics, go for a 260... if not a 260, go for an ATI 4850... If he want's to spend like half his budget on cpu/ram/motherboard.. sure. Yes, it supports tri-channel mode (bit performance boost from it instead of just dual-channel). New FSB technology? It doesn't use FSB, It uses QPI. And, it doesn't just outperform AMD... It outperforms all other non-i7 Intels too. J'adore aussi le sexe et les snuff moviesJe trouve que ce sont des purs moments de vieJe ne me reconnais plus dans les gensJe suis juste un cas désespérantEt comme personne ne viendra me réclamerJe terminerai comme un objet retrouvé
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