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09-24-2007, 08:34 PM
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| Super Techie  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Tech-Forums
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 |  Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget Hi im thinking of selling my current rig and building a new rig so anyone wanna help me out here? The budget is 1400 USD w.o monitor/keyboard and mouse im a hardcore gamer so i want it to be able to run any game with no problems oh yea and it has to be 1400 with shiping to cant go past 1400 looking for bigest bang for my buck dont mind if its amd or intel.
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09-24-2007, 08:43 PM
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| Kudos/Post Count Whore  Join Date: Dec 2006
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| Re: Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget ........... didn't you just buy this rig??? ok sell of the Board and CPU and get a g0 q6600 and a Gigabyte p35-ds3l and throw in a good Video Card such an 8800gts 320mb or something
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09-24-2007, 09:01 PM
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| Super Techie  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: American in Hong Kong
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| Re: Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget Why on earth would you sell the rig that you have in your sig? Just upgrade your vide card to an 8800ultra if you're that hardcore.
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09-24-2007, 11:04 PM
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| MetalHead Techie  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minnesota
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| Re: Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget your mobo costs 7 times more than your psu
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09-24-2007, 11:08 PM
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| Commander SMod  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City
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 | Re: Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget Sell HDD, RAM, PSU, GPU, and motherboard. Then get the following: Western Digital 750GB 2GB of either Crucial Ballistix or Patriot Extreme Performances PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610w EVGA 8800Ultra ASUS P5K Deluxe, Abit IP35 Pro, or Gigabyte P35-DS3R |
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09-25-2007, 12:21 AM
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| Future ex-member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chehalis, WA
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| Re: Thinking of a new rig $1400 budget Wait...., I thought the striker extreme was a way better board. Just extremely expensive. Am I thinking of a different model?
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09-25-2007, 08:49 AM
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| Commander SMod Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City
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