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beast786

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Help me !!!

I am going to setup up my PC in my gaming room.

Have 4K $ (U.S) In my budget.

Looking for:

3D gaming
Will attach to a TV via HDTV
Runs smooth and on Max

Help the nOOB.

My current PC

4GB Ram
nVidia 8800GTX
Windows Ultima 64bit


Thanks :D
 
If you spend $1.5K you'll have an amazing gaming PC that matches your requirements. I'm pretty sure you could build a super computer with $4K these days.
 
$4000 is way too much and a complete waste of money. $2500 will get you a hell of a machine. Even $1500 will get you a machine that will last for years.
 
You don't really need more than $1500 for high end... $2000 maybe.

If you wanna spend all $4k, buy something exotic, like Alienware.

EDIT: Here you go, exactly 4k (without a monitor, though).

Add a nicer sound card ($70) and a BluRay ($100) and you're ready to go!
 
Lagspike_exe said:
You don't really need more than $1500 for high end... $2000 maybe.

If you wanna spend all $4k, buy something exotic, like Alienware.
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I thought alienwawre pretty much steal your money for brand name only?
 
R2D4 said:
$4000 is way too much and a complete waste of money. $2500 will get you a hell of a machine. Even $1500 will get you a machine that will last for years.
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Show me how?

I am listening
 
beast786 said:
I thought alienwawre pretty much steal your money for brand name only?
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Yeah, you're paying them at least $700 to put the computer together for you.

Edit:

Just go to that thread that was posted already. There are a bunch of nice people who will help you out.

As for price, you can build a super duper high-end machine for around $1500. If you're adding a monitor, keyboard, etc. into the price too, it shouldn't be over $2000. Anything more and you're just being extraneous for nerd cred (RAIDed SSD's, $300 case, or shit like that).
 
anything past i7 920 (940 at a push) + 5870 and you're getting into money burning territory. unless that is your intention, in which case, send me some instead.
 
beast786 said:
Help me understand your point.
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There is no reason to spend that much on a gaming PC. Unless you like wasting money.

1-1500 is max you should be spending. The performance increase does not justify the extra money.
 
nevermind the morons. spend as much as you can. pc is worth it!

get a couple of gtx295 cards and some 3d vision going. maybe threescreen setup and some g27 and g940 or x52 awesome. fill her up

I'm playing an awesome airguitar riff right now in your honour
 
The problem is that, atm, only Nvidia offers a 3D solution but their cards are behind ATI in performance and don't support Dx11.
 
beast786 said:
I thought alienwawre pretty much steal your money for brand name only?
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Well, yeah, but you don't really need more than $2000, so at least you're putting the rest to a good use, since you're computer is gonna look awesome. :lol

sdornan said:
Alienware, exotic? You mean a computer mass-manufactured by Dell?
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Most people don't know that and they look cool. :P
 
Like everyone is saying $4,000 is an excessively high amount. To the point where you could almost construe this as a joke thread or something. I honestly don't even know if it's possible to spend that much money on a single computer, at least not without building some super computer with a dozen SSDs and four literally top-of-the-line video cards. I guess if your $4,000 budget also has to afford you a high-end 52" HDTV than you're making a little more sense but it's still excessive.

Hell, I'd go so far to say $1,500 is too much money to spend on a PC but I guess if you want one of those expensive monitors and 3D Vision glasses you're looking around that price range... maybe.
 
Spend $1500 on a computer now, put the rest ($2500) in a savings account. In three years or so, spend around $750 to upgrade the computer, leave the rest in the savings account. Repeat until money is gone.
 
With $4k to burn, I sure hope you don't have any credit card debt or car loan to pay off....and that you have a nice, big HDTV and very nice home theater system.

But yeah, $1,500 should be all that you need for a great gaming PC rig.
 
I blame the settle for less consoler attitude of these surrender monkeys on steam and steam alone. join the fight for freedom beast786. courage duty honour, I salute your 4k pc
 
Spending $4,000 on a PC in this day and age is almost offensive. I mean yes it's your money, but to spend that much surely you almost have to go out of your way to waste it? You buying a CPU made of gold?
 
GAF, I have $4000 to spend should I get a BC PS3 or a PS3 slim? Advice plz...


Seriously though, you're just pissing away money at that price. You probably don't even need half that for your computer.

beast786 said:
Show me how?

I am listening
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Look in the thread you should have searched for and posted in instead of making this thread?
 
You can build an entirely powerful gaming PC for $1k or less. A bit more with some extravagances. With the exception of 3D gaming, situation of which is a bit muddy right now, your OLD computer should be able to do damn near everything you wanted to do. Honestly, invest in a better GPU and maybe upgrade the CPU, and that's all you need; add extraneous upgrades to taste.

Seriously, spending $4k for someone in your situation is like buying a gun to shoot down a fly, when you already have a swatter that you just need to dust off a little.
 
I say go all out...throw a bunch of SSDs in that bad boy and at least 9 Gigs of DDR3 2200 (PC3 17600). Pair that up with ATI 5970s and Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz (overclock to 4.0+Ghz easily on air or throw in a liquid cooling solution while you're at it). Also, get a beast motherboard, PSU, and case to handle all that juice.

Pop open a bottle of Moët.
 
$1500 will buy you a supercomputer, so will $1000 if you shop smart.

Computers are so cheap these days, so much better than the days when a common 486 cost you $3500
 
Just go on newegg and find the processor you want. Click "add to cart" then click everything on the "customers also bought..." thing. Bam new computer.

Also give me your old pc.
 
FoxSpirit said:
Visit this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=383771

Get all the help you need.
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4k on a gaming pc?

the_doctor_is_in.jpg


I hope it's this kind of help
 
If you're throwing that much into it, go ahead and try and get everything decked out for 3D. I doubt you'll come close to your budget even with that, but might as well go all out with that kind of cash.
 
I don't understand...

You don't understand computers very much and you want to spend 4k on it?

For what intention?

Don't buy into the hype kid :P
 
I'd wait up till march were I you. Nvidia will be bringing out its new graphics cards, and even if they're not that much better, ATI may well drop their prices or bring out a refresh card.
 
Like has been said repeatedly here.. $4k is way overkill. $2k is max (taking into account monitor and other stuff) and even then that is really pushing it.
 
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