Buying A PC

[Movement]

I'm planning on buying a new desktop. I wanted to ask you guys what you suggest. My budget is $450. Must have Windows 7. Refurbished is fine.

[PotshotPolka]

Are you willing to build it yourself if we pick out your parts? You can save 200-300 easy that way.

[Movement]

Never built it before. Sure I'll give it a shot.

[b0red]

Never built it before. Sure I'll give it a shot.

 

if you can use a screw driver you can build a pc

[matt]

if you can use a screw driver you can build a pc

 

lol my brother made one and its so true

[trakaill]

well this issue when building is that the OS is expensise.. but GL

[PotshotPolka]

Talk to Wrathek, he can supply you with a legitimate OS key for $12 (or whatever he's charging now)

 

 

As far as building you a PC goes:

CPU $62

Motherboard $50 (comes with an integrated videocard that's utter shit, just don't plug into it and it should override automatically, otherwise use bios)

RAM DDR2 800 2X2GB $75

Videocard $140

PSW $70

Case $55

HDD $60

DVD Burner $20

 

Brings you to $530, if you cut out the HDD/Burner by using the ones you already have that'll bring you down to $450, +$12 for the OS.

[Movement]

So, just use BIOS just to make sure it is using the one I installed? Everything else I don't have to touch with BIOS?

[PotshotPolka]

So long as you DON'T use the video ports on the motherboard you shouldn't have to, if you get a conflict or buttfucked by errors just go into BIOS and disable it, instruction manuals online will tell you (and I'd suggest consulting it before you install anyways)

 

The case I suggested is out of stock, here's some alternatives:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119106

$55

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119077

$60

 

Top two are basically variants

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066

$65, but has probably the best airflow out there for the price.

 

 

Besides that, if you're interested:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127490&cm_re=5770-_-14-127-490-_-Product

$180, same graphics card but with a far better heatsink, it'll keep the card a lot cooler.

[Movement]

What would the computer specifications be? Like ram, CPU, etc.