Wats the best gaming PC these days? specs/quote approx price (1 Viewer)

[Serius]

I understood it that he was looking for a computer for cad and gaming for under $4000....I know where your coming from though Serius, I tend to be fairly cautious, budget limited too, that system you suggested is pretty nice but I'd make these changes:

AMD athlon 64 x2 3800+ - $492
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLi-D - $259
2.0GB TWINX-3200C2 (400MHz) DDR RAM Corsair - $419
Antec TruePower 550W - $149
XFX GeForce 7800GTX 512meg DDR3 Dual DVI VIVO PCI-E - $1199
Logitech x-530 5.1 speakers - $92
Pioneer DVR-110D 16X DVD-/+R/RW Dual Layer - $62
Samsung 16x DVD ROM - $49
Seagate Serial ATA NCQ 300GB 7200RPM 8mb Cache - $215
Samsung 930BF 19" 4ms LCD - $729
Antec P180 Performance One ATX MidiTower(no PSU) - $215
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard - $100

mouse either:
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse - $99
Logitech G7 Cordless Laser Mouse - $149 (2000 DPI)

All prices from umart.com.au aapart from mobo from nintek.com.au

With the G7 mouse that comes to $3851

yeh very nice, except he said it was for gaming so i wouldnt be going with the G7, although it has impressive respsonse time, its still a cordless which sometimes doesnt cut it for gaming... if anything the extra weight is enough to not get it, the G5 is much better for gaming IMO

as for how i originally put down the samsung monitor... ive heard good things about it with regards to gaming, usually i would say steer clear of LCD when gaming, but this monitor is fair solid

to thread starter: this build looks more like what u are after, just get the G5 instead of G7 :d

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Yea my computer i got about 3 months ago, i spent around 2000 on it and it's about as good as I could ever want.

 

[Templar]

For an AMD system, just remember to use 2 RAM modules at all times ie 2*1GB modules rather than 4*512MB modules. In addition the 512 7800GTX is overkill, it is a technological show piece that really isn't worth the price.

 

[sunny]

I just thought I'd share my recent upgrade:

P4 3GHz
Gigabyte 945 motherboard
2GB (1GBx2) Kingston DDR2 PC4200
Leadtek GF6600GT PCI-E
and a Thermaltake tower, all up $993. I'm quite happy with it

 

[withoutaface]

yeh very nice, except he said it was for gaming so i wouldnt be going with the G7, although it has impressive respsonse time, its still a cordless which sometimes doesnt cut it for gaming... if anything the extra weight is enough to not get it, the G5 is much better for gaming IMO

as for how i originally put down the samsung monitor... ive heard good things about it with regards to gaming, usually i would say steer clear of LCD when gaming, but this monitor is fair solid

to thread starter: this build looks more like what u are after, just get the G5 instead of G7 :d

The response times on current LCD's are very solid, and the only issue is resolution, but if he's going insane with the graphics card he won't have any issues bringing it up to the native resolution.