My computer build.
 

Okay so I'm finally gonna do it and build a fuckin machine. This thing should be able to rip thru autocad, solidworks, and all the programs I gotta use. Fast machine for a decent price? What do you guys think. Its my home/school/entertanment PC. Parts list:

AMD Athlon II X4 630 Processor
ASUS M4A785-M Motherboard
XFX GS250 1GB Vid card
4GB OCZ Reaper HPC RAM
Thermaltake 500W PSU
Liteon BluRay Drive
already have this 500gb Segate HD
anddd the case

After all the cupons and shit it turns out to be $600 shipped for everything. What do you think? Good set up? Good price? :x

I think there is better deals out there
did you try newegg and tiger direct?
I used to get good deals here
http://store.sysbuilder.com/temobu.html

id say thats a pretty good price, i just rebuilt my machine not too long ago, but iwent over the egde, spent somewhere in the range of $3000. Specs are as follows:

Asus Rampage II Extreme Mobo
Intel Core I7 920
12Gigs of Corsair XMS3 Tri Channel DDR3 Ram
Tagan 1300Watt PSU
4 WD Velociraptors running in RAID0 Striping
3 1TB External USB Hard drives
Coolermaster V8 CPU Heatsink
2X Nvidia GTX260's 1GIG Ram each card Running in SLi
2x Phillips-Liteon BlueRay burners
Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card(Came with the Mobo)
Cooler Master Cosmos (Black Label Case) 1 of 500 ever made

dewd every link Is from newegg thats where I'm buying from hehehe :P

(waiting for Bayer and Pizza to chime in)

honestly aside form the video card its a badass rig. waiste of money for me now. im not into that shit and i see 600 buix as car Money. BUT if you need it for cad and shit why the fuck not. and why would you get a board with integrated video and Buy a card? that aside id run an ATI over an Nvidia now a days. Your paying more for the same benchmark Sure BUT!!!! the reliabilty and power they have is bar none and ITS AMERICAN MADE! plus all nvidia chipsets handle ATI cards better, just an FYI

So what are you saying I should do^

id get a slightly more powerful mobo for a bit less money(no on borad video) and run a more expensive video card.

The M4A78 is a 790 NB board, IIRC. Should suit you well.. Never heard of the graphics card though. Good deal of a budget build.. Got some higher end ram there, so that'll eat up some funds.

Maybe a 4870 would suit you better for CAD? Never heard of the GS250, GTX series, yes. The 4870 would most likely out perform it and they can be had for a comparable price now. See if you can find yours in this link: http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f76/gr...e-list-212331/ I'm gonna wait till the new 5870's come down in price. Still a bit much for me seeing as I got my 4870 when it was still fresh for $190.

As far as the board, I have an M4A78 Pro sitting around, but I was never very fond of it. My Gigabyte board just *felt* faster for some reason, and it's an inferior 790gx NB. Asus boards are supposed to be really good, but I'm just off of them for a little while. The GB board never loads windows the same way twice, but the bios is GREAT!!! I HATE Award Bios in the Asus boards, but they are very consistent. Just a trade-off of what you love/hate more.

The quad cores are multitasking MONSTERS though!! If you're coming from a dual core, you will LOVE it!! Overclock it!! :D What are you running for a cooler? The stock AMD PII coolers are actually really efficient on the PII chips. They've gone up to 4g with them.

oh and NEW out this month and next:

NEW 4** series Femi NVidia cards
NEW AMD 1055 X6 chips 0_o
NEW 890NB MoBo's

It's gonna be a busy year. TRYING not to get sucked into the computers again!

lol I'm coming from a Pentium 4 hahaha

Well, I ended up buying it all tonight. It'll cost my about $600 then I have $30 worth of rebates coming, and a free 4gb flash drive that I'll sell to someone at school for lunch. haha, Not too bad :P Besides, I don't wanna blow ALLL my money on my car. I needed a better computer. This should last me.

I bought this, & it does everything you need, plus it's mobile.

The locals in Athens, Greece were less confusing!!!
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^ Most people have only used a dual core processor in their computers; Athlon X2 or Core2Duo. When you switch from those to a Quad-Core Processor, there is a HUGE difference with how much it can handle being asked to do. -Like an LS7 for your computer. To top the Quad cores, AMD is releasing a SIX CORE Phenom 2 series processor this month. 0_o Some are already out, and server chips have been out.

My laptop is an Athlon X2 and it can only handle so much. My big computer on the other hand.... . good god.. :D The new graphics cards (video) out now are getting such high frames per seconds ratings that if things advance any further, the human eye is the weak part in that it can no longer differentiate the frame rate difference.

buncha nerds hahaha jk ;)

^ Damn straight! ;)

But isn't it just soo nice to be able to machine gun click stuff and have the computer respond instead of having it fall flat on it's face and give you error messages.

All my stuff came in yesterday :]