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 Discussion by James_K with 9 Replies.
 Last Update: December 30, 2005, 9:53 pm
 
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I'm thinking of building a frag box so tell me if you think this is overpriced or a good idea or a bad one or what ever all prices are in HK dollars converted price to us are in brackets

Proccessor
ATHLON 64 3200+ $1,260 ($162)

Graphics Card
Gigabyte GV-NX78X256VP-B GF
7800 GTX / 256MB / DDR3 RAM $3,980 ($513)

OR

WINFAST PX7800GT-TDH
GF7800GT / 256MB / PCI-Express $2,780 ($358)
Which do you think I should get?

Case
Shuttel (for got what model but it will work) $3500 ($451)

Remember the case comes with the Motherboard on board sound and um yah I'll prob through in a dvd writer in there later on but thats cheep like $700 ($90) for the best one out

All prices were converted by www.xe.com

PS. All prices have a bargining price from $50-200 *thank you hong kong* ($6-30)

Mon Dec 5, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


Oops forgot to mension RAM and HDD

RAM
Thinking about Corsair XPERT but proving difficult to find again so
Probebly another model but still by Xpert for 2048 is $1030 ($132)

HDD
Western Digital
WD3000JB 300GB / 7200rpm / Serial ATA $1,087 ($140)


Which gives me a combine total of $13637 ($1,758)
thinking of cutting back on the cost by changing Gigabyte 7800 to a Winfast 7800

Tue Dec 6, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

STAY away from LEADTEK ...and WINFAST ...bad bad comapny
stay away .....i repeat stay away ..my mother board gets fried every year ...leaky capoacitors.

Tue Dec 6, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

QUOTE (hatim)

STAY away from LEADTEK ...and WINFAST ...bad bad comapny
stay away .....i repeat stay away ..my mother board gets fried every year ...leaky capoacitors.
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seems ok id get the GTX and scrap the case get one that u like and get a good motherboard

Mon Dec 19, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


I'd say, get a good case and motherboard. It's IHMO much better than a shuttle (tough I'm not telling you shuttles are bad). It can save you a lot of money.

I'd take the 7800GT, the price difference between the GT & the GTX does not offer you the difference in performance (plus you could still overclock the GT a bit :huh: ).

Sat Dec 24, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

looks ok if you made the said adjustments said above

Sat Dec 24, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

500$ Us dolalrs for a graphics card !!!

Exactly one year ago a built f#the following macine for £550 (900$ish american ???)
(ohh, bought the hardware from a ware-house like place, so a lot cheaper than most on-line / commercial hardware vendors)


Amd Athlon64 3400+
Chainteck Motherboard (400 mhz FSB)
1 Gig DDR-400 Ram
Dvd +- Re Writer
Nvidia GeForce FX graphics (costing £50 at the time)
17 inch TFT screen
80 gig hard disk
Mult slot memory card reader

my 1 year old graphics card, that only cost $100 still runs games like HalfLife-2 on maximum quality, with a very repectable frame rate (possabl beccause of my 3400+ cpu.. who knows)

why spend 5 times more ?


I sometimes play half-life death match online.

and i hear people boasting about there computer running the game at maximum quality, at 200 frames per second...

When the monitor vertical scan beam is only 60 - 80 Hz ( 60 - 80 frames per second)

what good is 300 frames per second.

dont waste money drawing tripple the number of frames your monitor can handle.. you wont see them.

LOL.

Sat Dec 24, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

QUOTE (qwijibow)



dont waste money drawing tripple the number of frames your monitor can handle.. you wont see them.

LOL.
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Hes right lol you dont want to waste your money on that kinda things..

Sat Dec 24, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

CPU : that one is nice nut you shoud go for a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ at least if you want to get that GT7800 to work at its best.
GFX: GIGABYTE is not a bad choice.... but go for ASUS or MSI cuz they perform better. but you really need that much gfx power?
CASE: Take a look at Thermaltake, specially the watter coller ready models, they sould look and perfome nice
RAM: All ok there
HDD: good choice, but also check Hitachi and Seagate.... but WD is a very very good choice...
Motherboard? go for ASUS!

:D

Thu Dec 29, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

I wouldnt buy the nvidia card.
I would wait for the new ATI's to come out
the Crossfire edition. better than the nvidia SLI's
you have to buy a crossfire motherboard just like the sli's for nvidia
the advantage is that with 2 ati cards that do not have to be the same
as long as 1 is a crossfire and pci express
the 2 combine to enhance performence and quality where as the sli's from nvidia
have to be to identical cards from the same manufacturer and only combine to better performance the graphic quality is not better.
that is my suggestion ! if its to play games spend it at the right place graphics card and mother board Crossfire go to tomshardware.com you can read all about how it works there

Fri Dec 30, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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