My New PC!

[raj_5004]

Hey guys, it was high time i bought a new PC, a desktop. I am a big time gaming freak & so my priority was a good graphics card, good display & better speakers. hence 2 days back, went & checked out the prices & products in the market & here is what i have finalised, along with the prices-

Phenom 9650 + Asus (processor + motherboard) = Rs. 8400/-
Keyboard + mouse = Rs. 650/-
Speakers (with subwoofer) = Rs. 1200/-
Side transparent (with LEDs) Cabinet - Rs. 2500/-
500 GB HD = Rs. 2650/-
DVD writer = Rs. 1100/-
4 GB RAM = Rs. 3700/-
19" samsung LCD monitor = Rs. 7200/-
1 GB graphics card = Rs. 8500
SMPS (power supply) = Rs. 4900/-

Total = Rs. 40,800/-

 

[vroom]

Sounds good!! You planning to assemble it yourself?
I work for a big software tech firm here in Mumbai, let me know if you would want me to find out the prices from any of our dealers.

Cheers,
Vroom

 

[Zinam]

Okay Configuration sounds pretty good!

But what is the Graphic card are you going to put ?

And by the way is your RAM DDR3 ?

 

[napster]

dude..every thing is good, just get 9900 series graphic card from geforce

 

[raj_5004]

Sounds good!! You planning to assemble it yourself?
I work for a big software tech firm here in Mumbai, let me know if you would want me to find out the prices from any of our dealers.

Cheers,
Vroom

yes, i am planning to assemble it myself with my friend's help.

Okay Configuration sounds pretty good!

But what is the Graphic card are you going to put ?

And by the way is your RAM DDR3 ?

i am planning for MSI 1 GB graphic card. have not heard any reviews about them. what is your opinion?

dude..every thing is good, just get 9900 series graphic card from geforce

as i said, i was planning to opt for MSI as i am getting a 1 GB card in my budget. for a few hundreds less, i am getting a raedon 512 MB. which do you think is better?

 

[raj_5004]

1 stupid doubt guys-

nvidia geforce & MSI are same right?

lol...

also, i read that intel processors are better. what is your opinion? intel or AMD?

 

[Zinam]

Okay if you want a Good performer & Mean machine then you can opt for Geforce 9800 GTX +

Have a look at this link which gives the benchmarking results of all the cards in world.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

It costs you around 15K now.

And regarding processor, its based on You.

I can say simply like

Intel - High End Computing & Entertainment Device.

AMD - Extreme Gaming & Computing Device.

AMD is quite lot cheaper. so stay with it if you are not going to use your PC for lot of computations or as Servers!

 

[raj_5004]

thanks zinam.

i cannot afford 15k for the graphics card right now. my budget for the card is 8000-9000 max. so in this budget, is nvidia better or MSI or raedon?

i am more into gaming, so i will opt for AMD.

 

[napster]

intel can perform good in indian conditions, amd and others cant take these conditions, they need to be cool to perform well

 

[vroom]

I have never had a PC with AMD but my friend had a laptop running the AMD processor. The problems that he faced were the heat sync issues where the laptop would go off after sometime. The processor would automatically shut down the machine.
However, I have heard that these issues have been resolved with the AMD Athlon processor onwards.

 

[vijay]

Raj, go on with AMD processor, awesome products to run on, cheaper to intel and much better quality, i am using this on my PC as well as on both of my laptops, nothing to worry.

 

[raj_5004]

thanks a lot for you advice friends. today i bought my PC, specs are as follows:

Silver Stone 500W SMPS - Rs. 4900/-
MSI/ATI Radeon R4850 1GB DDR3 graphics card - Rs. 8500/-
Samsung 19" LCD monitor - Rs. 7200/-
G Skill 4 GB Ram - Rs. 3700/-
LG DVD writer - Rs. 1100/-
Seagate 500 GB hard disk - Rs. 2650/-
Antec Cabinet - 2500/-
Altec Lansing speakers - Rs. 1400/-
Microsoft Keyboard + mouse - Rs. 650/-
ASUS motherboard - Rs. 2500/-
AMD Phenom II processor - Rs. 6250/-

Assembly was done at the shop itself - Rs. 350/-

Total - Rs. 41,700/-

 

[Zinam]

Great Config!

And Congratz on your new Gadget

But why 2 speakers ?

Why not 7.1 ??

 

[raj_5004]

2 speakers & a subwoofer.

i was told that Altec lensing sounds great & also 7.1 would have been too expensive.

 

[Zinam]

Altec sounds great.

Even i have altec Lansing 2.1 which rocks my home. It is a 2.1 HT model!