Mid level gaming pc

[Jun aka Pekto]

Its quite expensive for me sir juan yung ganyan setup. Kahit na siguro malaro ko yung crysis w/ med settings with a decent framerate pwede na.

You could go with a dualcore cpu and a 9600GT or an HD 4830. Crysis would probably still be laggy. But, there are plenty enough other games that'll run fine on those cards.

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*Jun aka Pekto, thanks boss for the suggestion.

this is what i have in mind:

AMD X2 ATHLON 64 7750 (2.7G) 3MB DC
MSI K9AGM3-FIH AMD690G HDMI/RAID
9600GT OC 512MB DDR3 DVI 256BIT
geil DDR2 667 2GB
SEAGATE 250GB 7200RPM SATA 8M
HANNS-G HG216 HDMI
SEAGATE 250GB 7200RPM SATA 8MB

prices from pccorner

wala pa yung ps and casing dyan. basta max budget is 30k (excluding speaker).
any suggestion will be much appreciated mga boss.

TIA

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i can sacrifice some parts like instead of 22" na lcd gawing 19" nalang or mas murang mobo para mas magandang vc mabili.

[safeorigin]

what i'd pick. . .
phenom x3
emaxx amd 790gx-xtrm
geil dual ddr2 4gb 800
ati hd 4830 ddr3

should pretty much end up a gaming whore rig

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also for additional inspiration

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0JodKgZ0A"]YouTube - AMD Phenom II Overclocked to 6.5GHz - New World Record for 3DMark[/ame]

[Horsepower]

scrap the Hanns, that's a no-name brand. Its actually obnoxious for a generic to charge so much for an unknown product.

Best go with an LG display. Cheap and reliable with good specs to boot.

Same with Seagate, scrap that and go for Western Digital Black series (up to 32MB cache).

You might wanna try ATI 4770, i think it's only 5k+.

Go with an AMD 785 board, the gigabyte arrived already in Gilmore I think.

Have you considered Phenom II?

[Revenant]

If you still have your old midtower casing, then I suggest keeping it. As for the monitor, buy something with a resolution of 1680X1050 or below to prevent any hiccups. For visual eye candy, and since this is a new system, 22" and with at least a resolution of 1600 x 900 or 1680 x 1050 is a must hehe.

Prices are based on my copy of PCExpress and PCHub's latest.

Intel Build:

CPU: Intel E6300 (C2D w/ 2MB L2 Cache) 2.8Ghz: 4,100
Board: Asus P5QL-SE P43 or any P43 board: 3,700
GPU: Palit GTS 250 Green Edition or Sapphire/Powercolor Radeon 4770: 5,770
Memory: DDR2 2GB 800: 1,550
Hard Disk: Seagate 500gb 7200.12: 2,550
Power Supply: Acbel Ipower 610w: 3,300
Monitor: Dell 22" e228wfp or any 22": 9,000

Total: 29,970

AMD Build:

CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 (Phenom II X4 with 2 cores and w/o L3 cache) 2.8Ghz: 3,150
Board: Any AM2/AM3 board with an SB710-SB750 southbridge : 3,200 - 3,800
GPU: Sapphire/Powercolor Radeon 4770: 5,550 - 5,770
Memory: DDR2 2GB 800 or DDR3 2GB: 1,550 - 2,340
Hard Disk: Seagate 500gb 7200.12: 2,550
Power Supply: Acbel Ipower 610w: 3,300
Monitor: Dell 22" e228wfp or any 22" : 9,000

Total: 28,300 - 29,910

Try playing around with lower monitor and motherboard prices and see if you can increase your budget a little bit. A Radeon 4850 512mb can be had for as low as 7,000.

[Jun aka Pekto]

what i'd pick. . .
phenom x3
emaxx amd 790gx-xtrm
geil dual ddr2 4gb 800
ati hd 4830 ddr3

should pretty much end up a gaming whore rig

If you're not planning to do Crossfire or SLI, it's better to stick with a single PCI-E 16x slot (785GX). I noticed there's substantial price-savings when going with the single slot.

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it's using pci-e 2.0 btw not to mention that it has a heat pipe, all solid caps and glan. however, if the budget is like 50k php, i might go for an FX :drool:

[Jun aka Pekto]

This is a Gigabyte 790GX motherboard


Here's a Gigabyte 785GX


The heatsink looks attractive especially if I plan to overclock. But if not, the tried and true HSF should be effective enough for cooling.

In my case, I haven't seen the need to overclock anything ever since overclocking a P-166 made the difference in making the original Quake playable.

But, if there's a 1 PCI-E slot 790GX with the same cooling pipes, I may consider it.