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December 14th, 2005, 07:14 PM
#1
building from scratch.
Keeping it short and sweet.
I'm going to be building a computer from scratch. The budget is $5,000 dollars.
the rest is up to you folks. So what am i buying..?
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December 14th, 2005, 07:23 PM
#2
Holy crap... thats a hell of a budget. What are you going to use it for?
Personal home computer? Workstation? Server? Gaming machine? All of the above?
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December 14th, 2005, 07:26 PM
#3
hmmm triple processors with uber ram and God's own video and sound all tucked nicely away in a roll-away cabinet... :P~~~~~~~~~
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December 14th, 2005, 07:34 PM
#4
Originally posted here by phishphreek80
Holy crap... thats a hell of a budget. What are you going to use it for?
Personal home computer? Workstation? Server? Gaming machine? All of the above?
Would prefer it to be a Gaming Machine.
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December 14th, 2005, 08:14 PM
#5
Dual processors,
scsi raid array
redundant power supply
REALLY nice video card and monitor (sorry not a gamer...but I am sure someone can recommend one)
Min 2 gig RAM
Really nice desk\cabinet to put it in\on
MLF
You can buy a nice low end server from dell that would be affordable...dont think you can match it ...even if you build yourself
edit> nice stable OS
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December 14th, 2005, 08:22 PM
#6
Originally posted here by morganlefay
scsi raid array
SCSI??? Naw..... not worth it .... Since there's so much money going around, I guess it's a good way to waste the money... but meh..
I'd suggest the Seagate NL-35 Series (Near Line Drives rated for 1Million Hours before Failure).. SATA II and in 250GB and 400GB Models.... Three of those (either size) in RAID 5 gives you the performance increase and also the safety net in case of a drive failure. I've got three of them sitting in my office about to be installed... Very nice drives... I've got the Adaptec 2410SA controller to go with them.... It was cheaper and easily available... I'd recommend one of the 3Ware 9000 series controllers though... very nice cards.
As for your processor... go with this http://www.hothardware.com/printarti...?articleid=682
Athlon 64 X2 4800+.... Essentially 2 4000+ processors.
Anyways.. I can't wait to hear the results of your shopping spree
Peace,
HT
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December 14th, 2005, 08:25 PM
#7
Well, I make my own PCs to save money. But with your budget... why not just have it done for you?
Check out this monster...
http://www.alienware.com/ALX_pages/aurora_alx.aspx
Can you say "SWEEEEETTTT!!!!!111111oneoneone"?
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December 14th, 2005, 08:47 PM
#8
http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/
Thats where I got my new computer, it was really easy and cheaper than I thought. They let you configure it the way you want it ( i.e. they give you a list of components going from cheapest to expensive, you pick the ones you want and they build it for you and ship it to you)
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December 14th, 2005, 09:33 PM
#9
HT
MHO...seeing the budget
SCSIs are fast and reliable....
MLF
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December 14th, 2005, 09:40 PM
#10
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