tabsina on 31 May 2008
Grampy said:
Can you buy from New Egg? (newegg.com) If not send me your favorite site and I'll see if I can find the equivalent.But really you can probably figure out the same. Look for a good box with expansion slots and a good (doesn't have to be the latest) CPU. Go to Tom's Hardware and he always has recommendations for the best value video cards. Don't ever buy the latest because they are always absurdly overpriced. If they are just one model older the price drops like a rock even though the performance difference is minimal. But the same thing as in the computer; look for the card with the most onboard memory rather than getting too hung up on the GPU.ALWAYS fill up with as much high speed ram as you can cram in. It's cheap and pays off big returns.Get a larger power supply, they're cheap anyway and that's about it. Most decent computers now have the makings of a good gamer once they have the power supply, ram and video card to give them serious video performance . |
i probably could buy it from new egg (or possibly not, i haven't checked), but i'd much prefer to purchase the parts locally.. the company with the best AU prices here is usually msy, and their parts list is in the pdf
http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf
btw, i really appreciate threads like this, i don't know why there is so much complaint when you are just trying to help people out
