Buying a new pc for gaming, any help?

the whole year inn

ok im looking to buy a p4 2.66ghz pc with decent specs without a monitor,keyboard+mouse.
does any1 have any good sites where i can get one to deliver it to my door or know of any retailers that do it?

Jim

www.alienware.com

if you have money to burn, or singe.

Venom

Build your own if you can. Better parts and it works out cheeper in the long run.

jesus_thats_gre

There is some great specs on the HW Tweaking/Modding Forum... Seems like the best bet is to get a 2.6C P4, decent board, decent RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro.

monument

Elara Systems - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=268

Falgorn

I've said it before and i'll say it again www.komplett.ie

You can buy the basic machiene from Dell for very little, but you will have to replace most of the components, for example: the motherboard may not and probobly wont have AGP support, and may only have 2ram slots.

A friend recently specked out a pc from komplett above, was at his door within 3 weeks and built it himself. With the right advise (ie from manufacturors of the various parts, or from techie friends) anyone can do this!

They have hardware bundle's ie: motherboard, cpu, ram cables and fan, and then you just add in what you want, ie graphics & sound cards (Radeon 9800 pro and Audigy card i would recommend for gaming). You can get all the other accessories you need like keyboard mouse monitor, and everything thats there is pretty much as cheap as your likely to get!

oh and read the instructions.... very important, even if you think you know what your doing!

Clinical Waste

Originally posted by Comic store Guy
I've said it before and i'll say it again www.komplett.ie

You can buy the basic machiene from Dell for very little, but you will have to replace most of the components, for example: the motherboard may not and probobly wont have AGP support, and may only have 2ram slots.

A friend recently specked out a pc from komplett above, was at his door within 3 weeks and built it himself. With the right advise (ie from manufacturors of the various parts, or from techie friends) anyone can do this!

They have hardware bundle's ie: motherboard, cpu, ram cables and fan, and then you just add in what you want, ie graphics & sound cards (Radeon 9800 pro and Audigy card i would recommend for gaming). You can get all the other accessories you need like keyboard mouse monitor, and everything thats there is pretty much as cheap as your likely to get!

oh and read the instructions.... very important, even if you think you know what your doing!

I agree. No better games machine than the one you put together yourself.

Pug {erZ}

I built my own with most stuff from

maplin Elec. - MoBo/Tower/amd/ special offers - need collect
www.komplett.ie - Drives
www.crucial.com - Good price GC 9700 pro - 3 yrs warrenty & Mem
www.thepcmanuk.com/Shop/Products.asp?PC=419 - XP pro

If to do again I would go to alienware.
( saved €300+ but not worth the problems I had with MoBo
got 2 faulty ones and had hard time proving it - took 2 months
to get everything up right - don't do it unless you got time
and another PC to tie you over )

weird USA is cheaper for stuff then UK version companies.

Pug {erZ}

Not a techi .. but what I know after my problems building a PC

MoBo - I went through 2 to get one working one - so I would
say get a good one ( Asus ) and pay as much as you can for it
I got low end one for €125 go to www.tomshardware.com
and look up reports on them as well as on evelse you might need.
It might be hard to find the exact one in your local but you'll
learn what to look for. Get the fastest speed mobo u can with
8x spees AGP min IMO. Case makes little difference just make sure Power supply is higher end like 500w as some GC require it
to run - also make sure plenty vents to cool down this also means more noise - sorry to say - but if
you use high graphics get better than regular chip tower to
keep it cool. Also why going for Intel you save by getting AMD
and better chip for most games as well ...
HDD get 120gb standard size now Matox are basic - you can get
faster if you want but I was not interested in the small speed gain
faster have 8mb cache = expensive.
mobo will decide ram speed just remember 512 is basic now
Graphics card ... I like the ati and tk god I didnt get nvidia cos
of Halo problems with nvidia .. I would say a min of 9700 pro
but 9800pro if you can afford it or whatever the fastest is now!
I didnt get a soundcard - just ran it of the mobo oncard sound so its basic but fine by me as I use wirefree headphones anyway
Thats my little info hope its of some use with above links to get parts - oh and if possible buy parts with a Credit Card that has
purchases protection and buy then with the value under 600 euro
so as to be protected incase of damaged goods arriving like mine

Seifer

If you're getting a decent sound card and want the machine for games you have to get good speakers. If not 5.1 then at least ensure you get a subwoofer. Sound and vision are the only two ways a game can absorb you and with a 5.1 setup they can get very atmospheric.

Giblet

A nice cheap, but respectable, Machine.

AMD based.

Abit NF7-S V 2.0 - €110

AMD Athlon 2800+ Barton core - €155

Twinmos Dual channel RAM, PC3200
2x 256 sticks - €56 each

120 gig Seagate SATA drive 7200 8mb cache - €120

LG CD-R 52 28 52 - €50

Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT - €230

Case with PSU - €130

900 euro.

Comes with 6.1 sound inbuilt, LAN and Firewire.