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I am thinking of buying custom parts and making my own pc
So far i decided to buy the following parts in new egg
http://i16.tinypic.com/86sh194.jpg


I was wondering if they are good and compatible.
thank you

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Why AM2?

The sweet spot on HDD's right now (price + size) are the 500Gig.

That's the RAM I've used in my last 2 builds. I'd highly recommend that as well.

That's also the same video card I use for my secondary monitors.

Other than the AM2 part and HDD size, good choices thus far.

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Core 2 Duo

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what would u recomend instead of am2?

what i did is browse around some pc building forum, looka round a few cheap builds and get parts which were beign recomended by everyone

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what would u recomend instead of am2?

what i did is browse around some pc building forum, looka round a few cheap builds and get parts which were beign recomended by everyone

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Not being a dick here, but why not take some time of your own and do some of your own research and decide for yourself or THEN come here asking for advice?

I mean, I spent 2.5 weeks reading up on my rig and comparing parts etc.

Why not just buy a prebuilt and save yourself the effort then if you're not wanting to learn about your own rig?

Sorry if this comes off as being short/rude, but it's really true bro. If you don't care enough to try and learn about your rig, why should we?

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C2D provides more bang for buck than AMD at the moment so i would definitley go C2D. This means you will need to change your mobo as well.

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C2D provides more bang for buck than AMD at the moment so i would definitley go C2D. This means you will need to change your mobo as well.

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thank you

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I'd get another 250gb HD if you can spare another $70.

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C2D provides more bang for buck than AMD at the moment so i would definitley go C2D. This means you will need to change your mobo as well.

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I've heard this a number of times so I headed over to Tom's Hardware and compared the chip he selected to a similarly priced Intel chip (Conroe E6650 for $15 extra). I didn't count but the cheaper AMD chip won a majority of benchmarks I looked at. Including h.264 which I use alot. Personally they're so close saving the $15 is a no brainer.

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i think the C2D > AMD comments are more relative to the higher end - Q6600 and E6850 are allegedly significantly ahead of AMD. it seems to me that the Q6600 would be a huge bargain for poker players at the moment.

At the lower end, just get whichever is cheaper.

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i think the C2D > AMD comments are more relative to the higher end - Q6600 and E6850 are allegedly significantly ahead of AMD. it seems to me that the Q6600 would be a huge bargain for poker players at the moment.

At the lower end, just get whichever is cheaper.

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There's no doubt that Intel owns the top line processors at the moment. But a number of people here have claimed, quite vigorously, that Intel performance dollar for dollar is better across the entire range. I simply don't believe this is true. Especially with some of the deals you can get on AMD/ATI combos. I may even get an ATI card now that they seem to be taking linux drivers seriously.

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anandtech repeatedly claim it to be the case; they seem to take into account price differentials.

they've got a comparison article on their front page right now comparing the ATI 3870, 3850 and the nVidia 8800 variants.

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they've got a comparison article on their front page right now comparing the ATI 3870, 3850 and the nVidia 8800 variants.

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I was referring to an integrated solution [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I don't like spending more than $100 on a processor, lord help me if I spent that much on a GPU. Now if PS offered a 8800GTS using FPP then I'd be in heaven!

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thank you all

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There's no doubt that Intel owns the top line processors at the moment. But a number of people here have claimed, quite vigorously, that Intel performance dollar for dollar is better across the entire range. .

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I am one of the biggest intel supporters here, and I don't think I have ever said that or heard it.

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There's no doubt that Intel owns the top line processors at the moment. But a number of people here have claimed, quite vigorously, that Intel performance dollar for dollar is better across the entire range. .

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I am one of the biggest intel supporters here, and I don't think I have ever said that or heard it.

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Core 2 Duo

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Without explaining your statement one has to assume you think it is better in every way.

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that is what you get for assuming.

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that is what you get for assuming.

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