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Old 07-10-2008, 10:23 PM
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So my parents agreed to get me a new comp but under certain conditions of course... Well anyway I wanted to get some advice or any opinions about the layout I have below. My goal is to have this rig last at least through 3 more years of high school (gonna work a lot harder to make sure I actually deserve this) and I don't want it to be toooo expensive. I'm going to continue using my Apevia X-Infinity and my old drives and HD's so all of that is set. Not exactly sure when I can start ordering things probably 2-3 weeks, but I just wanted to run this by all you great sR guys since I'm not too good with this and the majority of you are .

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Old 07-10-2008, 10:49 PM
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Sapphire HD 4850 512MB PCI-Express Video Card $145 After $30 Rebate - SlickDeals.net Forums

It's from Newegg, it's 512 instead of 256 and has MIR and a coupon if you go to the slickdeals thread.
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:54 PM
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the one he linked is 512.

looks good, but personally i would go with intel right now.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:01 PM
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the one he linked is 512.

looks good, but personally i would go with intel right now.
yea i agree about the intel point, if you can try for an e8400 or e8200 because you can always OC those if u need more power down the road, and from what i've seen the phenoms are lacking in the OC department and they lack gaming power in most games compared to the e8xxx...
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:08 PM
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Oh I may reconsider then. I made an Intel layout (Q6600) also and it turned out to be like $5 cheaper lol just changing the CPU and Mobo and leaving everything else the same. It's just that my cousins all use AMD and some of my friends do also so I thought it'd be ok. I don't need to do anything too hardcore like Crysis but yeah I know some game I really want will come out later but I don't know I'll probably think this over again.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:16 PM
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I understand your pain. As a family (aka dad, myself) who buys/builds computers we have had about 8 AMD systems since the early/mid 90's and NO intel systems, but if i had the money to build myself a new desktop right now, i would shamefully go with a Core2, but then love my benchmarks after the build :P
just to put in my 2 cents haha
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