so this will be my first system build ever and I have a couple of parameters that i need to follow.
- price needs to be in the ballpark of $1000
- needs to have firewire and enough usb ports because i will need it for audio recording and running DAWs
- i would like to be able to play recent games, graphics don't have to be maxed out, but i would like it to run them nice and pretty. (super sf4, splinter cell conviction, l4d2, ac2, mw2, perhaps far cry 2 or crysis)
- 2 hdd for dual booting, and esata for external backup
- preferably small-factor desktop (micro atx desktop) but not really too important.
- wireless pci card because im not sure where my computer will be in relation to a router.
- the 1000ish dollars needs to include a monitor (no need for speakers)
any advice, suggestions, or opinions would be greatly appreciated. at this point, i am not completely partial to either intel or amd, or nvidia or ati (only used intel and nvidia so far). at this point, anything is better than trying to game on my laptop with 2ghz core 2 duo, geforce 8400 gs, and 3gb ram (vista 32 bit).
hope this wasn't too vague, just need some guidance in the right direction, hope someone can help me out.
thanks guys,
scott
- price needs to be in the ballpark of $1000
- needs to have firewire and enough usb ports because i will need it for audio recording and running DAWs
- i would like to be able to play recent games, graphics don't have to be maxed out, but i would like it to run them nice and pretty. (super sf4, splinter cell conviction, l4d2, ac2, mw2, perhaps far cry 2 or crysis)
- 2 hdd for dual booting, and esata for external backup
- preferably small-factor desktop (micro atx desktop) but not really too important.
- wireless pci card because im not sure where my computer will be in relation to a router.
- the 1000ish dollars needs to include a monitor (no need for speakers)
any advice, suggestions, or opinions would be greatly appreciated. at this point, i am not completely partial to either intel or amd, or nvidia or ati (only used intel and nvidia so far). at this point, anything is better than trying to game on my laptop with 2ghz core 2 duo, geforce 8400 gs, and 3gb ram (vista 32 bit).
hope this wasn't too vague, just need some guidance in the right direction, hope someone can help me out.
thanks guys,
scott