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[Panzer]

Ive nearly got enoughmoney to buy myself a computer, its going to be used for gaming and web design stuff. Will these specs do, yes/no/ what would you change?

Also please dont go say 500gb harddrive, watercooling, dual 2gb rams etc...

Dual 2.6GHz Processor
768mb RAM
80Gb Harddrive
A decent graphics card (havent looked into)
(hopefully) inbuilt 56k modem.
CD RW, DVD Reader.

Can i egt away with 512ram??

[God-Of-Earth]

Well personally id go with these tell me if its in your budget

3G - 3.2G CPU (INTEL)
120GB+ Harddrive
No in built modem if your gaming you want Broadband
Really good graphic card 256 - 512 (Splash out for future release of games)
Also keep the RAM how you said if not more

Hope this helps, It will be a good spec but not too expensive
Good luck bro let me know what you think

[fffanatics]

I definitely would do atleast 1 gig of ram. Currently i run 1gb and still games push it to like 95 - 100%. I would recommend 2gig to 4 gig.

[Panzer]

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I definitely would do atleast 1 gig of ram. Currently i run 1gb and still games push it to like 95 - 100%. I would recommend 2gig to 4 gig.

4gb ram.... Youd need like 2 motherboards to fit them on lol.
Get a better video card and youll run games fine.

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3G - 3.2G CPU (INTEL)

You dont think dual processor?



Anyone else got suggestions/comments?

[savge17]

For CPU if your into gaming go with an AMD processor. Its lightning fast for gaming, but Intel is better for design stuff etc. So its basically a tradeoff... whatever your more into.

[Panzer]

K thanks alot, theyre about the same price arnt they?

[delivi]

Think about adding the new PhysiX Gaming Physics Processor Unit(PPU). This will greatly improve your gaming performance.

[matto]

I noticed that you said you didn't know what video card you were going to choose. I'd highly recommend Nvidia for a gaming video card. They're quite good and powerful.

[Panzer]

K, living in New Zealand its alot more annoying, not as much to choose from and stuff. Most RAM and motherboard parts are easily obtained but not pro video cards

[zach101]

hmm to be honest that will not game and will not even be tht good of a computer at least in my opinion. Im currently building a computer of my own. I set a 1600 dollar budget not counting shiping and handling and im buying all my self from tigerdirect.com (deffinetly the place to go if your geting alot of stuff and need good prices.) Any way for mine here is what im geting
AMD Dual 3.0 processor
2 Gig Corsair ram
160 gig 7200 RPM HDD
19 acer LCD monitor
256 ATI (forgot the exact model)
Any way ya that will be a sweet gaming rig and will do basically everything. it should cost me when all is said and done about 1800 after shipping, perhipals and what not but at least in my opinion thats really not that bad considering all your getting.