ive never built a pc before (sure u guys get that a lot) but ive recently seen my friends homebuilt pc and im totally jealous so im gunna try to make one myself.. ill be purchasing it in the near future(hopefully)
-my budget is about.. anything really? however im a starving college student and only have some money i can start with from selling my xbox stuff and my subwoofer system in my car.. so about 200-300 in money offhand..
-im gunna be using this computer for at least school research, internet surfing, but primarily for gaming seeing as i have a laptop.
-i have most the essential accessory parts, like the mouse, keyboard, erm..a semi-ancient monitor (but it should work i hope) so im pretty much just looking for the tower and everything in it
-ive been pointed to the newegg.com site by many people so im gunna prolly use this site for refrencing from now on but my current shopping list of parts is from compusa.com
-im from america
-i dont have a prefrence to whats used, i could care less if its all different makes, as long as it works great together ..do all the tower cases come in a standard size tho? jw..
-idk what overclocking is
-idk what SLI or crossfire are
-sadly i couldnt tell you my monitor rez at the moment, but i can always get a monitor later
-i dont care if its loud or whatever (as long as it dont wake my roomate up next door) and it can look anyway, im very open to everything
---heres what i have in my shopping cart at compusa.com right now----
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 Processor BX80580Q9505
Asus Xonar DG Sound Card - 5.1 Channels, PCI, 24 Bit
Sony Optiarc AD-7260S-0B 24x DVDRW Drive
EVGA 01G-P3-N959-TR GeForce 9500 GT Video Card
Patriot PSD34G13332H Signature PC10600 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade
Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green Hard Drive
Cooler Master Elite Series Power Supply
Asus M2N68-AM PLUS Motherboard
...so that should be everything.. any advice on what i should have, not have, look for.. etc.. just a good reliable gaming computer.. i wanna play new games but not have to be spending all the money i have on a computer.. i gotta eat
-my budget is about.. anything really? however im a starving college student and only have some money i can start with from selling my xbox stuff and my subwoofer system in my car.. so about 200-300 in money offhand..
-im gunna be using this computer for at least school research, internet surfing, but primarily for gaming seeing as i have a laptop.
-i have most the essential accessory parts, like the mouse, keyboard, erm..a semi-ancient monitor (but it should work i hope) so im pretty much just looking for the tower and everything in it
-ive been pointed to the newegg.com site by many people so im gunna prolly use this site for refrencing from now on but my current shopping list of parts is from compusa.com
-im from america
-i dont have a prefrence to whats used, i could care less if its all different makes, as long as it works great together ..do all the tower cases come in a standard size tho? jw..
-idk what overclocking is
-idk what SLI or crossfire are
-sadly i couldnt tell you my monitor rez at the moment, but i can always get a monitor later
-i dont care if its loud or whatever (as long as it dont wake my roomate up next door) and it can look anyway, im very open to everything
---heres what i have in my shopping cart at compusa.com right now----
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 Processor BX80580Q9505
Asus Xonar DG Sound Card - 5.1 Channels, PCI, 24 Bit
Sony Optiarc AD-7260S-0B 24x DVDRW Drive
EVGA 01G-P3-N959-TR GeForce 9500 GT Video Card
Patriot PSD34G13332H Signature PC10600 4GB DDR3 Memory Upgrade
Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green Hard Drive
Cooler Master Elite Series Power Supply
Asus M2N68-AM PLUS Motherboard
...so that should be everything.. any advice on what i should have, not have, look for.. etc.. just a good reliable gaming computer.. i wanna play new games but not have to be spending all the money i have on a computer.. i gotta eat