Well, lately. I have been getting into pc gaming. Most recently, i have been playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Multiplayer alot. However, use one laptop for gaming and business doesn't work out the best as you may have thought. I was wondering if anyone have any ideas on a good and cheap computer made for gaming. I was planning on buying a new laptop for my business (found one for about $300 something), and modding this one up so it would be pretty good for gaming. I wanted to know if anyone has any good suggestions for me. Also, if you know of any cool action-type games, let me know.
well, you can buy a really nice machine rate now for about nothing. Seriously, AM2 stuff is really cheap, you can build a machine that will be able to do anything you really want rate now for around $500 like a 4200 x2, 7600gt a couple gigs of ram(could save a little and just do a single stick) really nice board, 500w powersupply and get a cool case as well. If you want specifics i could put together a list, but thats just general stuff if you want to shop around yourself. ---edit--- Oh yeah, cool action games, oblivion is sweet, but its a little in-depth, fable the lost chapters, jade empire is sweet, balders gate, titan quest is good to, yeah and you should be able to pick any of those up for under $30 dollars to, oh yeah can't forget Morrowind, thats the sweetest, and you can run that on pretty much any machine.
Thanks. If you could put together a list of the parts i could buy, that would be great... I wanna make a pretty neat gaming system that runs well and would be able to run at gta and SWAT4....
well, i possible went a little bit overboard, but i can revise any of this. After looking over everything, this stuff is really really cheap, back when i built my machine, most of the hardware here was a couple hundred dollars more, so this is a beast of a machine, for really cheap. Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM Newegg.com - ECS KA3 MVP (V1.0A) Socket AM2 AMD 580X CrossFire ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100186L Radeon X1950XT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 VIVO HDCP Video Card - Retail Newegg.com - FSP Group (Fortron Source) Blue Storm II 500 ATX 2.2V 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CSA, VDE, NEMKO, CNS, CE, CB, FCC - Retail Newegg.com - OCZ Gold 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor - Retail Newegg.com - LITE-ON Black 16X DVD-ROM 52X CD-R 32X CD-RW 52X CD-ROM 2MB Cache IDE Combo - Retail total cost is something like $738
Thank you so much. But I was wondering...does the case i use really matter? I was thinking of going with this one: Newegg.com - RAIDMAX Smilodon Extreme Black ATX-612WEB SECC STEEL ATX Mid Tower Computer CaseNo Power Supply - Retail Unless you have one in mind that would be perfect..but i like a nice flashly one.
The only thing that matters with a case is size, make sure you get one that's big enough for the motherboard to fit in.
Thanks. I was gonna a pretty nice big one so i could have it like maxed out lol. Basically, a mini-super computer . I hope. Or at least close.
Sorry for double posting...... But do you know where I can get a CD/DVD combo drive that doesn't use a door? You can just enter the disk.. When i say combo, I mean one that allows you use and burn both cds and dvds. Also, wont I have to purchase an operation system? Such as XP or Vista?
yes, you will have to get an OS, also, trayless drives are really expensive, like in the hundreds, sometimes you can find then under a hundred dollars, but its rare. You just need to get a DVD burner, it will burn CD's as well.
Oh ok. I found out they are called Slot-Loading. I searched......couldn't find any of them.... That sucks. If you know where I can get one, please let me know. I don't care about the price. Ill find someway to work that out.
Panasonic UJ-85J-B Slim Slot-Load DVD+/-RW Drive - Black Color A5220-67003 DVD NARROW SE SCSI-2 SLOT LOAD DVD-ROM DRIVE Laptop and Desktop spare parts Compaq HP Dell IBM Sony Gateway Plextor 16X DVD¡ÀR/¡ÀR DL/¡ÀRW Slot Load Drive [Black Bezel] Part Number: PLE-PX-716AL-BPS-BL
OMG, thank you so much lol. I think the last one will go well with my case: Ultra Black Aluminus ATX Full-Tower Case with Clear Side, Front USB, Firewire and Audio Ports ULT31824 at TigerDirect.com
thats a pretty neat case, but on that note, since your going all ballin outta control on this smaller stuff, you might as well go crazy with the other stuff to, i wasn't really sure of you budget or what you planned on doing, but there is definitely better performing hardware out there.
Yea I know. I had another computer friend of mine go over with me about the parts you posted and he told about some other parts that would be great.
well it basically comes down to this, are you going to get XP or Vista and also, how big is your budget.
Well, I might go with vista. Or get XP and use a cool alienware themes. I dont have much of a budget, but I really dont have the money to pay for a 900-1000$ computer system lol. Well, not at once anyway.
well, the system i had suggested earlier is a monster and especially for the price. The only real issue there would be graphics card, which is only DX9 compliant, but even then, you could just wait till everything turns DX10 only and just get ATI's HD series card, and AMD's new cores that they are coming out with. That would be like a year or so down the road, so you really can't go wrong with what you would be getting.
So what exactly are you saying? That the graphics isn't good enough or that there would be a better one coming out?
well, i'm saying, you could just use the set-up i gave you and it would be a sweet PC for a couple years before you would have to upgrade, and it is super cheap. Thats just the first option, the second one is pretty much put a whole different set-up together that will work with games for window vista only, (DX10 games) But that set-up, would be a whole lot more money.
