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Ph?bus

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hey all, i have recently sold my computer and have $500 to build a new one, keyboard and mouse as well.
currently this is what i am looking at,
case: Antec 300 Illusion
psu: OCZ StealthXStream 600W
cpu:AMD Athlon II 240
ram:Crucial DDR3 1333MHz
gpu: ATI HD 4650 (will upgrade to maybe a 5850 for xmas)
mobo: ECS Elite Series 785G
HDD: 320GB WD
i am open to suggestions, but $500 is my budget
 
Looks fine to me....are you able to afford the new Phenom II's??? cuz if you are, you could put that in instead of the athlon. You might wanna beef up your PSU also, get the OCZ 700w, its not that much more expensive.
 
 
torzak said:
Processor: Newegg- AMD Phenom 9650- 2.3GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103288
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131391
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220391
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150323
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181
All together its under $500 without a case.
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The regular Phenom CPU's were fail. That RAM is slower than the gaming DDR2 1066 ram because those timings are slow, "7-7-7-20" it should be "5-5-5-15"
He doesn't want a good GPU yet because hes upgrading soon to the new ATI 5 series supossedly ready to debut in 2 days.
The PSU is pretty much the same, i recommend getting the 700w version though.
 
torzak said:
Processor: Newegg- AMD Phenom 9650- 2.3GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103288
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131391
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220391
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150323
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181
All together its under $500 without a case.
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well thats helpful without a case (no offense)
and dont forget the keyboard and mouse,
and i had a Phenom (not a phenom II) and it failed sooo much.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
The regular Phenom CPU's were fail. That RAM is slower than the gaming DDR2 1066 ram because those timings are slow, "7-7-7-20" it should be "5-5-5-15"
He doesn't want a good GPU yet because hes upgrading soon to the new ATI 5 series supossedly ready to debut in 2 days.
The PSU is pretty much the same, i recommend getting the 700w version though.
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and also, the 700W is just about 10 dollars more than my budget, but i will check it out
 
80108 said:
hey all, i have recently sold my computer and have $500 to build a new one, keyboard and mouse as well.
currently this is what i am looking at,
case: Antec 300 Illusion
psu: OCZ StealthXStream 600W
cpu:AMD Athlon II 240
ram:Crucial DDR3 1333MHz
gpu: ATI HD 4650 (will upgrade to maybe a 5850 for xmas)
mobo: ECS Elite Series 785G
HDD: 320GB WD
i am open to suggestions, but $500 is my budget
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I would recommend a gigabyte board with solid state capacitors. As for the PS, I know everyone says bigger is better, but I'm running a Phenom II 940, HD3870, and two Hard drives off an Antec Earthwatts 430 without issue.
Aside from that, if you can afford a Phenom II you might get a bit more future proofing. I know jumping from an Athlon 6000 to this was night and day.

I love these for builds:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371005

95Watt version
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103696
 
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phenom II x2 550 is just a little bit more expensive than the athlon II 240
unless you are actually going to utilize it, quads are pretty pointless
 
skip the DDR3, it won't give you any better performance, see my other post about that. Save the money for your 5-series.

Everything else looks good.
 
Ryken said:
skip the DDR3, it won't give you any better performance, see my other post about that. Save the money for your 5-series.

Everything else looks good.
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Hes not paying that much more for DDR3 so he might as well go for it......hes only paying like $20 more or something.

Junk you really do hate quads lol, you never recommend them to anyone lmao. Too bad all of intels newer chips are only quads.
Games do actually utilize quad though, maybe not source games but most of the new games out and the ones coming out are going to be utilizing it. Quads are mainstream now, no more reason for a Duo core.
 
PewPewBangBang said:
Hes not paying that much more for DDR3 so he might as well go for it......hes only paying like $20 more or something.

Junk you really do hate quads lol, you never recommend them to anyone lmao. Too bad all of intels newer chips are only quads.
Games do actually utilize quad though, maybe not source games but most of the new games out and the ones coming out are going to be utilizing it. Quads are mainstream now, no more reason for a Duo core.
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i want a cheap quad core, but i dont think my budget allows for one, the cheapest (true) quad is like $126 or something, but you can unlock the other 2 cores on the $100 P II 550, but thats not very good because there might be a reason the other 2 cores are locked (defective or otherwise)
 
ok here is the my new decision
Case: Antec 300 Illusion
Mobo: ECS 780G AM2+/AM3
Cpu: AMD Athlon II 240
Gpu: ATI HD 4650
Psu: OCZ StealthXStream 700W
HDD: WD 320GB
Ram: 4GB (2x2GB) OCZ DDR2 800 , either 5-4-4-15 or 5-5-5-15
but I am going to buy it tomorrow for the possible price drops, or would they not even matter?
 
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