Re: I'm a light gamer, so why can't I build something much cheaper?
- From: spodosaurus <spodosaurus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:16:43 +0900
Crackles McFarly wrote:
I've noticed motherboards from $60 to $250 and cannot understand if
this is needed if you're a light gamer and manly use apps.
A motherboard that makes use of dual channel RAM architecture is all you need unless you want all the other included bells and whistles like HDMI and multiple SATA drives.
I might play a game once a week at most frequent.
I'm wanting to know if it's possible to get a powerful number
crunching computer for a low cost with this gaming under
consideration?
Sure. It also depends on what types of games you're playing. If you're playing FPS games, or RPGs like WoW, then you're going to need to spend more on a graphics card to handle the details. If you play predominantly RTS games (like me) you don't have to get the latest and greatest card.
I do a lot of photo editing [no animation or 3d modeling] and use
programs to encrypt, encode and compress a lot.
Well you'll be wanting a dual core CPU then. Single core Athlon 64s are available in the LE range and are extremely cheap (like half the price of the low end dual cores in some cases). However, the extra core will not cost all that much more in terms of total cost.
So, is it possible to upgrade to a modern system for cheap?
Yes, but that depends where you're starting from. I just did so for $181AUD using an Athlon 64 X2 4200+, an ASUS M2N-MX SE board (not recommended unless you're comfortable flashing the BIOS straight away, judging from many user reports, but there are plenty of others for just $10 more), and 1GB of DDR2 800. You'll want to add the cost of a mid range PCI-e video card to that.
p.s. I've built systems in the past if that helps.
ALSO I won't need things I already have like the monitor, keyboard &
mouse, hard drive.
Well, you might. It depends on how many IDE drives you want to migrate. Most boards have only one IDE connector, so two IDE drives max. You can get more expensive boards with two IDE connectors, and they usually have at least four SATA connectors, too.
I'm looking for motherboard + case + ram + cpu + video card basically.
thank you.
Antec cases tend to be nice and so are their PSUs - mid range units that are generally pretty reliable and at the very least are less likely to kill your new system if they do fail.
The video card will depend on what games you want to play.
Regards,
Ari
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