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Help me out. You guys have helped me with this before. Best 500 dollar desktop you can make happen. I do not intend to game with this at all. Mainly a storage machine that can also do some work with my GIS applications (fairly processor and RAM intensive) and stuff like Dreamweaver/Photoshop.
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do you need a monitor and peripherals?
Tbh sorry to jump in, but I could use something similar - a desktop for 500/600 that would run DiabloIII no problem. Not sure my laptop is up to the task.
I make desktops for friends that can game on anything out now for 800. 500 is very doable, especially if it's not intended for gaming.
Here are fairly recent spec for a gaming PC for ~$500...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...g-pc,2970.html
Since you're not going to be doing gaming with it, just skip the graphic card, get a cheaper PSU and spend that money on 8GB of RAM, a bigger HD (if you need it) and monitor/keyboard if you need it...
If you already have monitor/keyboard, you can probably go a i5 CPU or a motherboard with SATA III...
Actually, here's the latest from that series from March 2012...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...lock,3159.html
It's $640, but the video card alone is $240, so you should be able to work it under $500...
That motherboard has SATA III and USB 3.0...
Been a long time since I put one together, but the video is now fully on the CPU right? So I don't need the board to have an on board video chipset because the I3 or I5 will handle it if I don't want to buy a dedicated card?
Correct.
I have the i5 2500k and the onboard intel video works great, pushes 1080p/blu ray easily. i don't play any games atm so I have not bought a video card since I got it in Oct.
Nice.
If you're getting a Sandy Bridge processor and a mobo that supports the Intel HD Graphics (like the one I listed in the last post), yes.
If you want something already put together, just head to Dell and select Intel i3 2nd gen processor... but it'll cost you a little more
If you're going to be doing GIS/dreamweaver/photoshop then a dedicated GPU would still be a good idea to get. Obviously not dreamweaver as much as the other two but GIS/photoshop can still hog a system down.
If you're not gaming then AMD may be the way to go since you're on a budget. Once you get into the $750 range I'd say ditch AMD and go Intel with the i5.
miiiiigghhhtt be able to save on a couple more areas but that's as good as it gets if you dont need a monitor/peripherals
Last edited by blackfire12; 04-07-2012 at 02:40 PM.
Not a fan of AMD FX chips... i3 kicks it's butt on almost every test out there even though it has 2 less cores (per core performance on the FX is reportedly awful).
If you can afford it though, an i5 is probably a better investment than either.
^^^ Gotta love newegg; great selection, low prices, no sales tax, and a good return policy.
big saver would be having a drive laying around for the OS, esp given HDD prices are still pretty high.
Why are hdd prices so high. Could have sworn they were lower
actually it doesnt, the i3 and the low end amd fx chips are literally neck and neck and the amd pulls ahead slightly in more categories than not. i would go intel for sure but with amd you can't beat the price.
the cores aren't even that big a deal when it comes to amd whether it be high end or low end cpu's so i dont know why anyone would grab those over the i5 or i7.
Last edited by blackfire12; 04-07-2012 at 06:24 PM.
i don't think production has yet recovered from those floods in Thailand.
I get charged for tax... they have a warehouse here in NJ
Wow that sucks. Lol
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...mark,3120.html
agree about the price, though it's a 15 bucks difference in this case
It does... but i regularly check pricewatch and I can normally find a better price anyways
Here you go mang: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...l=en+_US&gid=0
$534 build in the middle column.
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