new comp

[artybucco]

Wanting to build a good gaming comp at bout 2 grand, wanted to know if it would be cheeper to build my own or buy a premade one

let me know if u guy have ne suggestions on anything like processors, mother boards, graphics cards,ram.

ne info would do

thanks for the help

[NoobToast]

I believe it will always get you better parts for the price when you build it by yourself.

[jdeegz]

building it yourself is exciting!

because yo uhave ot do everything write, or it wont work, and theres a possiblity of electrocuting yourself / blowing up some parts.
its a great experience and i suggest it if you have never done it, as for 2 grand. wow, you can get a serious rig for that amount! i think you should spend ~200 on a comfortable set up, desk/chair.

if you want parts, wait for the 4850/70 =D
or possible the g280 form nvidia, they are both releasing in about a week / two weeks.
umm, intel obviously is better, but i went amd because i was on a budget and thier prices are outstanding.
i know absolutly nothing about mother boards, maybe somone has a tutorial or somthing on them? i'd like to learn about them more.
ram, might wanna go for the ddr2 1066 now, its getting popular and seems super fast. i got two gigs of ddr2 800 and i can run three different image rendering programs with no delay, so i cant even imagine the ddr2 1066.

k ive got ot put some close on.

edit, sorry this is so poorly written, just got back form the gym and im dead lol

[Craig]

its always cheaper to build yourself. As long as you know what youre doing. If youre not into building, look into alienware as their towers are actually very competitively priced.

[Fish111]

I would have a hard time actually filling that 2k budget while building it myself.

well not really lol, id just get VelociRaptor drives and a mad huge monitor, but u get the idea, its really easy to cut costs when building yourself, my latest was under 900 bucks, super fast and spiffy

[budafied]

for $2000, you can do a LOT.

Do you need it only for gaming (no graphic design or anything special)? Do you need an operating system? How big of a monitor do you need? Is the monitor cost included in the budget, or do you already have one?

Give us a little bit more detail, and you can build one kickass rig with $2000. I'm thinking you could do a quad core intel build with a raptor 150GB + a big storage drive, 24" monitor with a top end GPU for that price.

Give us a general idea, and maybe we could help put together a newegg build

[NoobToast]

and id go with SLI with that big of a monitor. Also water cooling would be nice.

[artybucco]

No i am goin for a tv/ monitor so its gonna be a lil bigger

well i kinda just want the comp to be up to date.

i would like dual graphs cards but unshre if i need it.
i am looking to go with a quad core processor

[CoffeeShark]

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