I beleive the "Integrated 3d graphics" means hes getting an NForce mobo of some kind, meaning it has a geforce 2 onboard, which isn't too spectacular (but acceptable as a backup).

I very very very strongly reccomend the Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo. Its fan-fucking-tastic.

Make sure you get DDR Ram, not SD-Ram which is circa 2000 and sucks balls. If you want some serious speed I reccomend Corsair XMS ram.

If you don't get an Nforce mobo that has its own onboard network, for the love of god get a name brand network card. Nothing will hose your computer faster than a cheap network card, which causes 95% of all IRQ bluescreens. I reccomend Linksys or IBM. Of course, if you get the a7n8x deluxe mobo like I reccomend, you'll have onboard network anyways.

Also I don't reccomend an LCD monitor if you want to do any decent gaming. Unless your going to pay $1000 or more for one, they simply cannot come close to the refresh rates and resolutions that a $150 CRT can do.

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two importnat questions:

Whats your budget?

What do you plan to use it for: Gaming, office work, music, video editing, messing with photos, just general surfing internet etc

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i really dont know how too put together a computer (dah!). its just a computer for messin around recording music downloading media playing games. i dont wanna buy a store built one, i think their shit. im gonna spend 1400 - 1500 without extras. monitor, printer, etc.what would be a good setup? for that price

Damn thats a good budget for building your own computer. I say go all out and get the best of everything. Seeing as i dont know much about building a comptuer i cant be much help but, If you do want to save some money is in the cd-rom, case, monitor area. But that does not apply to you. Sorry i couldnt be alot of help

-sam

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Originally posted by Tranceporter99 Damn thats a good budget for building your own computer. I say go all out and get the best of everything.

Never do that with computers. Unless you have LOADS of cash and know EXACTLY what you're doing (example: a P4EE is the "best" according to Intel, but in reality, it is not - you'd end up blowing a lot of money when you could spend less on an A64).

in terms of geting the best, i would get a "mid range" cpu, some quality ram, quality motherboard and quality video card:

typical system id go for is a :

pentium 4 2.4C or amd athlon xp2500+ barton core, a matched pair of high performance ram for dual chanal, such as corsair (what i use), ocz, etc and a radian 9800 pro.

both those cpu's are good overclockers if you wish to try overclocking, even if you deciede not to, they are more than good enough to run all the programs a home user would need to run

harddrive choice, dvd, cd etc are pretty much up to what your indivdiual needs are

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Whenever I get a new comp/upgrade I tend to try and build last year's high end system. It's a lot cheaper and still very fast.

athlon xp 2500
512 megs of pc3200 ram value ram is ok if you dont plan on overclocking
radeon 9600
WD 80 gig SE or more
SB audigy2 OEM
cd/rw of choice, liteon is good and cheap tdk and plextor is good too
400w power supply, antec

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I just purchased a new system about 3 week ago


asus a7n8x e deluxe mobo
athlon xp 2500 batron
512 ram
120 gig HD
ATI radeon 9600 pro agp videocard
LG cdrw/dvd combo
adn all that other crap that comes with it

and I am more than happy with it ... really really good , and not too expensive either

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Originally posted by Turbonium Never do that with computers. Unless you have LOADS of cash and know EXACTLY what you're doing (example: a P4EE is the "best" according to Intel, but in reality, it is not - you'd end up blowing a lot of money when you could spend less on an A64).

Thats not what i said, I said the Best not the most expensive, for instance i know that AMD makes better chip sets than Intel does, and ATi is better than Nvidia[at least in my opinion], and he does have LOADs of cash, 1500 for a system period is alot, and home built, well thats as much as you can proabbly do with[including case mods and best case and all that]

cheers
-sam

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Originally posted by Tranceporter99 Thats not what i said, I said the Best not the most expensive, for instance i know that AMD makes better chip sets than Intel does, and ATi is better than Nvidia[at least in my opinion cheers -sam

Yea but in 90%+ of cases, the best is the most expensive.

i mean i dont wanna spend that much on a comp but i would because it would last a while. but if i could get away with spending less that would be wicked. also i add all the programs i wanted sound forge 7.0, acid pro4.0, friuty loops etc. but i found a way to get them for free so my limit is more like 600-800