Need best bang for the buck desktop!

So I need help, looking at building a anew PC, need cheap but good!

Shinare, work your majoc for me!!!!
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budget?

Right now I highly recommend the Phenom II X4s, 8GB DDR2-800, and a Radeon 4870.

PhII X4s are excellent and very OC'able and you can get used 4870s for $100.
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Budget is as little as possible.

Need mobo, ram, vid card, DVD thingy & HD. Can prbably get a case locally with a PS or re-use my Lian Li.

Prefer mobo to have all sound/LAN etc onboard.

I missed Ray's steal of a PC below. That was a killer deal!
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Gaming?
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Of course! But not over the top gaming.....

My Shuttle died, and my old P4 just wont cut it haha.
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OCZ Platinum Edition 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Quad Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P8008GQ

OCZ Platinum Edition 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Quad Kit Desktop Memory
Item #:N82E16820227291
Return Policy: Memory Standard Return Policy
-$5.00 Instant
$106.99
$101.99
1

SAMSUNG DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223L LightScribe Support

SAMSUNG DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223L LightScribe Support
Item #:N82E16827151188
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
$28.99
1

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drives
Item #:N82E16822136284
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
-$10.00 Instant
$109.99
$99.99
1

XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

XFX Radeon HD 4870 HD-487A-ZHFC Video Card
Item #:N82E16814150394
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
$149.99
1

LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray Reader SATA Model iHOS104-06

LITE-ON Black 4X Blu-ray Reader SATA Model iHOS104-06
Item #:N82E16827106325
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
$59.99
1

GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P ATX AMD Motherboard
Item #: N82E16813128387
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HDZ940XCGIBOX

AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor
Item #: N82E16819103471
Return Policy: CPU Replacement Only Return Policy
-$15.00 Instant
-$35.00 Combo
-$35.94 Saving
$299.98
$214.04
1
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
$35.94
Grand Total: $690.93

get a raptor HD! Those things aren't in your budget but are worth the price because you can load up fast and pick the red team every time in TF2!!
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127401

4850 for $82.99 after MIR

If you're not running 1920x1200 then the 4870 is probably a little overkill for now. Also the 1tb WD Black drives are EXCELLENT, they beat all of my 74gb raptors in read and write both but if you're looking for a big, fast drive the 640gb Black is slightly faster and $35 cheaper.

Those two concessions drop the price by $100 and you won't have lost anything at 1680x1050 res. If you're running higher than that I'd suggest a 1gb 4870 instead.

P.S. Why 2 optical drives? That's another $28.99 you can drop off the price.

EDIT: Another bone to pick would be the 8gb kit of memory, no game for the next 2 years is going to use more than 2gb of RAM at any given time, 4gb is sufficient and 2 DIMMs vs. 4 DIMMs is going to keep everything more stable if it's OC'ed.
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detox wrote: get a raptor HD! Those things aren't in your budget but are worth the price because you can load up fast and pick the red team every time in TF2!!

Anreill wrote:

detox wrote: get a raptor HD! Those things aren't in your budget but are worth the price because you can load up fast and pick the red team every time in TF2!!

Seagate's 7200.12 perpendicular drives are within a few meg a second of the velociraptor drives and drastically cheaper. Around $110 for a 1TB I think.

Not to mention the shear cost difference.

Also: Avg. Read Throughput
Seagate 7200.12 = 104.37MB/s
WD Velociraptor VR150 = 103.63MB/s

Avg. Read Throughput
WD Velociraptor VR150 = 103.21MB/s
Seagate 7200.12 = 102.90MB/s

This is what I was talking about. I'd rather see actual speeds than benchmark scores. When you take into account the fact that speed wise you won't see much difference, but pricewise there is a HUGE difference. I think it's pretty obvious what the better choice is for a budget.

Seagate 7200.12
1TB = ~$110
500GB = ~$75

WD VR150
300GB = ~$270

I'd rather be slightly slower but still completely functional and have a vastly larger amount of storage myself.

Nik, not trying to argue with you or say you're wrong. Just that he's not wanting to spend tons of money and the WD VR drives have NEVER been economical. I will agree though, if they were cheaper and had a higher storage capacity, they'd be great. But they're almost $1 per GB, which is way too much. Though I'd love to have their seek times, it stomps the snot out of the Seagate drive in that regard.

Yeah, I probably emphasized the VRs too much. My point was that the WD Blacks are faster than the Seagate 7200.12s and they're the same price.
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Nikola wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127401

4850 for $82.99 after MIR

If you're not running 1920x1200 then the 4870 is probably a little overkill for now. Also the 1tb WD Black drives are EXCELLENT, they beat all of my 74gb raptors in read and write both but if you're looking for a big, fast drive the 640gb Black is slightly faster and $35 cheaper.

Those two concessions drop the price by $100 and you won't have lost anything at 1680x1050 res. If you're running higher than that I'd suggest a 1gb 4870 instead.

P.S. Why 2 optical drives? That's another $28.99 you can drop off the price.

EDIT: Another bone to pick would be the 8gb kit of memory, no game for the next 2 years is going to use more than 2gb of RAM at any given time, 4gb is sufficient and 2 DIMMs vs. 4 DIMMs is going to keep everything more stable if it's OC'ed.

Brules wrote: Need Shinare to do his New Egg hyperlink magic.

Brules?
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Nice, how come 2 diff sets of 4gb ram and 2 DVD burners?
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Brules wrote: Nice, how come 2 diff sets of 4gb ram and 2 DVD burners?

That AM3 mobo and DDR3 should keep you an available upgrade path for a while. Intel is all over the freakin place with their new socket/processors, integrated memory controller, integrated video controller shit.
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