Help with new computer

[Mojo]

I am putting together a new computer for under $1,000. I need some
suggestions for what to buy. The computer will be used for light to
modest gaming and home finance applications. I am leaning towards
Asus motherboards. I need help selecting following components:

1. motherboard
2. CPU
3. Video Card
4. CRT monitor
5. Case and power supply
6. Sound card and speakers
7. Memory

Thanks in advance.

 

[Maximus]

I am putting together a new computer for under $1,000. I need some
suggestions for what to buy. The computer will be used for light to
modest gaming and home finance applications. I am leaning towards
Asus motherboards. I need help selecting following components:

1. motherboard
2. CPU
3. Video Card
4. CRT monitor
5. Case and power supply
6. Sound card and speakers
7. Memory

Thanks in advance.

Latest mobo often have on-board sound, so you can save some money.

If you can find some used mobo ( or refurbished ), used CPU, memory,
then you can save a bit more from each.

Cheap tower cases are available, less than USD$50.-

I did build few PCs for my friends this way, and they all are happy.

Maximus

 

[Andrew]

I am putting together a new computer for under $1,000. I need some
suggestions for what to buy. The computer will be used for light to
modest gaming and home finance applications. I am leaning towards
Asus motherboards. I need help selecting following components:

1. motherboard
A7N8X-Deluxe

2. CPU
XP2500+

3. Video Card

9600 Pro.

4. CRT monitor
5. Case and power supply
6. Sound card and speakers

Sound is on mobo.

7. Memory

512MB Crucial PC3200.

 

[Lane]

I am putting together a new computer for under $1,000. I need some
suggestions for what to buy. The computer will be used for light to
modest gaming and home finance applications. I am leaning towards
Asus motherboards. I need help selecting following components:

1. motherboard
2. CPU
3. Video Card
4. CRT monitor
5. Case and power supply
6. Sound card and speakers
7. Memory

Thanks in advance.

Hi there,

Your question is very hard to answer, for the options and possibilities are
almost infinite.
Go to a local computershop (not selling brand computers) unless you live
very desolate. Tell him or her your demands and they will build you a very
good computer for the price you want. Mostly they won't charge you
buildingcosts.
Otherwise start a search on the internet and order the recommended parts.
There are an awfully lot of sorts of different parts. One can't hardly know
them all, so a choice will made on experience and limited knowledge.

This is the most likely right answer

Lane

 

[Darkfalz]

1. motherboard

P4P800 Deluxe

2. CPU

Pentium 4 2.8 GHz

3. Video Card

GeforceFX 5700 Ultra / Raedon 9600 XT

4. CRT monitor

Any will do.

5. Case and power supply

AOpen Case and PSU (Antec PSU is also good)

6. Sound card and speakers

Onboard Audio is fine, Antec Lansing or Klipsch speakers

7. Memory

Any decent brand DDR 400 memory (get two identical sticks). I like Kingston
myself.

NEVER BUY RETAIL. Shop at computer markets.

 

[Britt]

Take a look at Ibuypower, they have some decent looking system that you can
configure your self. http://www.ibuypower.com/mall/lobby.htm

I'm not real sure if you come out any cheaper building one yourself. The
thing about building one yourself is that you can pick and choose what you
buy and that you like and that fit into your budget and customize the system
for you. Plus if you ever have trouble you know how it was built and what is
inside of it.

Also I personal would not order a montor online due to the weight and
shipping cost (unless you can get free shipping), you can pick up a 17in
full monitor from almost anywhere and save on the shipping. If you shop
around you should be able to find one for less than 100.00 (might have to
use a rebate).

Good luck and you can get a good system for under 1000.00 USD.

 

[Mojo]

Thanks to all for your helpful responses. I will hit the sales ads
and do price search on the net. Thanks again.

 

[rhartman]

BigMO:

Gaming & finance ... those are conflicting purposes. A modest,
rock-solid, bulletproof box that keeps your IRS_data happy will NOT
provide snappy gaming performance, and SHOULD not.

imvho choose INTEL/P4/Seagate ( all 1.5 year old models running *nix !!)
for the financial data system, and ASUS/AMD/WD for the games.

ray hartman
********************

 

[Kyle Brant]

If one can avoid the senseless excessive OC'ing urge, I don't see any
reason why a good gaming system cannot also be a reliable
work/financial data system. And to suggest that one brand of HD is
better than another is poppycock, never had a WD drive fail (my 520
meg WD drive ran 10 years 24/7 before I finally put it to rest), but
have had Seagate and IBM drives fail. They all fail eventually, some
sooner than others, so backup your data/system and be prepared for the
worst.

As for recommendations, tho it's been only a brief period of usage (3
weeks), I'm quite pleased with my A7N8X-DLX mobo and all it's
features, very stable system. The only thing that has crashed my
setup so far is Halo, and Halo crashes everyone's rig, haha. Just
changing a control/mouse setting crashed Halo, and I don't even have
drivers installed for that logitech mouse, as I'm using the stock
"human interface" driver from win2k.

No doubt, with any combination of hardware, you will find someone who
has had a problem of some sort with drivers or software/hardware
incompatibility issues. Such problems are a fact of life with
computers and vendors who write sloppy or ill-conceived code. Heck,
I've written a lot of code, including drivers, in my day, and will be
the first to admit, it's easy to make an error that is rather
undetectable. I recall finding 1 error in my coding 6 months later
when an oddball error/crash finally occurred. It happens because
those writing the programs are human and they will make mistakes,
further, compilers are not perfect either, so anything that works
reliably is oftentimes a miracle.

--
Best regards,
Kyle
| BigMO:
|
| Gaming & finance ... those are conflicting purposes. A modest,
| rock-solid, bulletproof box that keeps your IRS_data happy will NOT
| provide snappy gaming performance, and SHOULD not.
|
| imvho choose INTEL/P4/Seagate ( all 1.5 year old models running *nix
!!)
| for the financial data system, and ASUS/AMD/WD for the games.
|
| ray hartman
| ********************
|
| Mojo wrote:
|
| > I am putting together a new computer for under $1,000. I need
some
| > suggestions for what to buy. The computer will be used for light
to
| > modest gaming and home finance applications. I am leaning
towards
| > Asus motherboards. I need help selecting following components:
| >
| > 1. motherboard
| > 2. CPU
| > 3. Video Card
| > 4. CRT monitor
| > 5. Case and power supply
| > 6. Sound card and speakers
| > 7. Memory
| >
| > Thanks in advance.
| >
| >
|