Advice needed for Custom PC's

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I am looking into building a PC. I want good performance,
mainly for gaming. I want to use AMD for a processor and also want one
of the higher end video cards (preferably Nvidia). Unfortunately, I can
only spend around 1300 dollars. Any advice for those main pieces, as
well as motherboard, power supply, drives, etc?
 
I am looking into building a PC. I want good performance,
mainly for gaming. I want to use AMD for a processor and also want one
of the higher end video cards (preferably Nvidia). Unfortunately, I can
only spend around 1300 dollars. Any advice for those main pieces, as
well as motherboard, power supply, drives, etc?
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Athlon64 3500+, 7800GT and 2GB of RAM will fly.
 
Here's my suggestion for performance & value:

COOLER MASTER Wave Master
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119023 $130

AMD Athlon64 3700+ SanDiego
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103539 $233

***NewEGG special*** eVGA 7800GT 256mb
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130238 - buy this
GPU and eVGA will give you one of their SLI motherboards. $339

*FREE* eVGA 133-K8-NF41 Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI mobo $109 but free
if you buy a 7800GT from them!

Tagan TG-480-U22 ATX 480W Power Supply $91

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) Platinum
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210 $185

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 250GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065 $103

NEC 3550A http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152055
$43

Turtle Beach CATALINA 7.1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118106 $46

Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2 $89

Total: $1259
 
Is there a good place where I can get an LCD monitor (18 in or higher)
for a good price?
And does the mobo come with all of the other bios chips and needed shit
like that?
 
And does the mobo come with all of the other bios chips and needed shit
like that?
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Motherboards come with the BIOS chip, cables, etc. You will
need to add the CPU, memory and video card (if not built-in).
 
TheFinkelwrote:
Is there a good place where I can get an LCD monitor (18 in or
higher)
for a good price?
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There are plenty of places where you can get 19" monitors for
$300 and higher.
What's your budget for the monitor?
Newegg is a good bet if you're shopping online. I'm not too crazy
about their 8 dead pixel return policy, though, since you're at the
mercy of UPS or Fed Ex.
 
TheFinkel said:
Is there a good place where I can get an LCD monitor (18 in or higher)
for a good price?
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Try here--I buy lots from various vendors as this site finds the deals
for me:
 
TheFinkel said:
I am looking into building a PC. I want good performance,
mainly for gaming. I want to use AMD for a processor and also want one
of the higher end video cards (preferably Nvidia). Unfortunately, I can
only spend around 1300 dollars. Any advice for those main pieces, as
well as motherboard, power supply, drives, etc?

I have an Amd64 3500 2.2ghz with a 7800oc nvidia video card running on a
biostar mainboard nf4st-a9 and it cost me just $750 for all that and 1 gb
of kingston ram and 2 10,000 rpm western digital hard drives.
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