Building a gaming computer. SLI, Dual Core.?

Question

I am building a gaming computer but I don't know what parts to get. It has to have a Dual Core CPU, NVida Dual SLI video cards, DDR2 RAM, and will be focused mainly on gaming.

I can invest $1500 on the system and have my eye on a $130 hard drive so I need to know what to buy with the remaining $1400. Motherboard, flavor of CPU and Video cards, power supply, ect.

Can someone offer some suggestions?

Answer 1

I recently finished this rig for $1500:



Windows Vista Home Premium (build 6000)

2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q6700

Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB)

Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5E3 Deluxe Rev 1.xx

Bus Clock: 266 megahertz

BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0903

4096 Megabytes Installed Memory

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 [Display adapter] (2x)



It's amazing. I can play CoD4 maxed out on everything and AA and AF and still get 170 FPS. Crysis on very high settings with no AA is 56. The two GTX's equal about the same performance as a single GX2 for a similiar cost. I just bought a GX2 because I plan to buy one or two more in the coming years.

Answer 2

My suggestions as I, too, recently built a gaming rig:



Case: Whatever you want; I advise Midsized or a full. $80

Windows: Vista runs flawlessly on a gaming rig. Get XP too and Dual Boot $?

RAM: 4GB 800MHz RAM ~$100

CPU: Intel Quad Core Q9550: $330, or E8500 $170.

Motherboard: For SLI, I advise the EVGA 750i. It is designed for overclocking and SLI and its $175 +$20 rebate.

Graphics Card: 2x 9800GTX $200 per; great deal.

500GB HD: ~$70



You still have about $400 left with this setup if you get the quad core Q9550. If you get the E8500 dual core, you have more than $500 for other accessories: dvd burners, heatsink, fans, etc.



By the way, all this can be bought from Newegg at those prices.

Answer 3

Hey kid it seems to me that your just playin with people i mean from what you have wrote it seems like your a pretty savvy person when it comes to things like pc,s in other words i think you may know enough about stuff already so just use your decision making im sure ya wont go far wrong. As far as i7 and all that goes well i am sure you know its new equipment all round, if ya wanna go down that line motherboard i would go for a p6 deluxe v2 ASUS best gamin motherboard 24 gig of ram its a beast i have got one myself, i havent got 24 gig of ram in it ive got 6 gig but it will run of 3 gig motherboard cost me £236.00 pounds i7 processor cost me £210 power supply 1000watt £193 thermaltake, memory cost me £175 corsair 1800 mhz, 2 hard drives were only cheap considering 500gig and a 640gig £90 for the 2 of them, and my daddy of a graphic card 5970 only snag is i have got to wait for it as its on order from a shop and they havent got it in until after xmas and new year so have to wait eagerly for that but hey its in the bag its on its way as they say. That cost me £ 488.00 so as ya can see my build has cost me a few back breakin hours at work i can tell ya. Only thing i need now is a new case i have bought 2 already but they are too small this new video card is 13 inches long phew???? thats big man anyway enough of my jibberish as i said i dont think you need much advice good luck i7 will be compatible with i7 products and nothinelse its called a 1366 socket the cpu i mean there is more to play with on the AMD side of the tracks than with i7 at the moment but i reckon ya already knew that and it is way cheaper also but the i7 does wipe the floor with any of the AMD CPUS anyday. Even the new phenom cpu that amd have got 3.2 ghz, the i7 just takes it for a laugh every time it takes DDR3 memory modules also and only those type

Answer 4

I spent $1200 on my system and can run every game maxed without a problem. I wouldn't go with Nvidia SLI, just get a single 8800gts 512 or one of the newer cards. Check out http://newegg.com and look for high rated parts that match the specs you want.

Answer 5

hi there.... try you look at this site. I found at google last week

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