Not exactly need to be 1.5K, 1.5K can get u something very good
also
Since u are gaming, u need to have powerfull processor, and good
graphic card, shops in simlim does not really cheat ur money, u can
see from their price list:
http://bellsystems.com.sg/UploadedImg/Pricelist%208%20Nov%2008.pdf
The price varies around ten to 30 dollars
for example, shop A :
CPU-----$100
MOtherboard----$50
SHopB:
CPU----$80
MOtherboard----$$70
both adds up to $150 dollars
From the price list above, i will customise a system for you now
to show you that u can get very up to date stuff
if you are not going to run 2 or 3 graphic card at once, a
normal motherboard is very enough
MSI G31M3-f w/vga and sound motherboard + A
Q9400(2.66ghz with 6mb l2 cache, ruynning at 1333mhz
fsb) quadcore processor, this cost $537
Lets say for a family computer, u store lots of games and movies,
and you decided to play safe and get a 1 terabyte(1K gigabyte)
seagate barracuda sata hdd, that cost $188
RAMS:
And lets say u get a 2gb
kit ram, kit rams are rams that run at same timing, so the
performance is better, taht will cost you $73,
howeever, if you are running vista, it is important that u get 3gb
and above
OR
a 2gb kingston value ram, it will cost $36
NOw since u are gaming, ur graphic card isv ery important,a s it
should not be so slow that it cannot run any game or it runs so
fast taht it slows down ur processor, anyway the Q9400 is very good
already
The motherboard, kingston ram, hdd cost $761 in total
If you get the powerful gtx280, it will cost $685 just the card
itself
total will be $1446
Now since u are gaming, ur
graphic card is very important, as it should not be so slow that it
cannot run anygame, and it cannot be so fast that it slows down ur
processor,
Anyway, ur processor is already one of the good quadcores
around
Power supply, aerohorse 500 watts will be enough to run it, it
cost $115
the 650 watts version costs $155
Total will be $1561 for the the parts only
there u can see 1.5 K can get u a very good graphic card and
very good processor
but in real time, there is not a need to use such a good graphic
card, i regretted buying my 3870x2
Lets say you downgrade ur grpahic card from the gtx280 to a
leadtek9800gt which is very veyr enough, that graphic card cost you
$219
From $1561, minus off the cost for the gtx 280($685) and add in
the cost for 9800gt($219),
it cost around $1095
there you have it, if you want to go for the higher end gtx 280,
it will cost 1.5 K
How ever, you you downgrade abit to 9800gt, it cost you 1095,
when u are at simlim, u can talk with the owner about changing the
graphic card, ram, etc
