Building a Gaming PC

[sniper_spike]

Fine. Go with his, I garuntee you that crappy little PSU doesn't have a high enough rated +12V rail(s) for that X1800.

Not to mention you don't need an X2 4800+ and a x1800 for playing fricking EMULATORS.

[Skyone]

THANK YOU! Sniper, would you stop?

Make sure it's the same socket [939] for the AMD.

[XPCportables]

well if you want my expert opinion, you should go with an nVidia card instead. I have used both Ati and nVidia and I must say that all three of my nVidia cards have been better than my Ati cards. I have had 2 Ati cards, 1 Radeon 9200SE(burned out the first month) and 1 Radeon X700 (burned out the forth month) so I went back to my old nVidia Geforce MX 4000 and it still worked so then I went to test my old Riva TNT2 and it still worked too AMAZING. I now have a 256mb GeForce 6200 and it is awesome. nVidia>Ati go nVidia

[Joes2Silly]

I cant realy say anything against ATI because I have never used one of their cards, but I put a geforce PCI 128mb in my sisters computetr and it is da' crap yo

[sniper_spike]

I would say the same, but the new X1900 and the little bit older X800GTO2 really are beasts. All other ATi cards get owned by Nvidia.

[GamingRev]

This still dosent really answer some of my questions

So will my motherboard and hd work with the parts sky recomends, will it run emulators?

BTW: Sniper, you seem to be getting awfully competive /*burn

[Skyone]

Competitive*

Anywho, it will run emulators at the best setting possible, times 10. But of course, you will also need and Operating System; Windows XP, Linux, Unix...

[teraflop122]

Mind if I suggest a somewhat less expensive and conservative approach?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8758307828
Note: and no, I'm not trying to advertise, I'm just trying to be as lazy as possible.

Ideally you'd spend a few tens of dollars for a more decent video card, like a GeForce 6200, though the X200 should be perfectly fine for emulators. BTW, knock off about $70 for the actual price of the hardware.

Also, I must say that the pictured case is quite awesome. The thing is constructed extremely well. The hard drive trays have little all-metal hinged handles on them!

Anyway, if you happen to want to know more about this much less expensive alternative, I'll post links to all the Newegg item pages.

[GamingRev]

Okay well...So I only have about $650 to spend on it!

I already have a: PC chips Mobile AMD motherboard (with grapics and sound) I cant find the link! I am not sure if that will work with everything else.

And a western digital 250GB hard drive, SATA.

Can you hook me up with some parts that will work with what I already have, but run emulators (now and later) smoothly and that I can afford.

Also, I can probably work and make some more money.

[GamingRev]

Sorry double post, keep converstation on PC

[teraflop122]

You need to at least give us the specs on the motherboard. A quick google search for "PC chips mobile AMD" was inconclusive.

[cowsgoquack101]

http://www.emachines.com/products/produ ... prod=T6420

That's your friend for about $650.

[Skyone]

Get the one cowsgoquack is saying above. ^^

That's actually a pretty good deal! Go for it!

[SpongeBuell]

my cousin has a computer just like that... seems to be a nice machine for the most part (I just wish M$ would support the damn media center program without charging you for it )

[GamingRev]

Yes, but I want to build one. I found out the motherboard has a 2800+ processor (AMD XP) its a K8 one.

I wanna know if that will work with the rest of skyones setup, for emulators (I wanna run the Ps2 one). Also $500 for gfx? Woah!

So please give me a cheaper setup, that will still be a sweet computer.