PC for DDO?

[Ashmer]

newegg.com is the best for Online purchases. There are many specialty shops I use on occation for Water cooling, or tested memory, but the vast majority of my online purchases come from the egg.

+1 for Newegg.com

[Vallin]

All excellent points of feedback - exactly what I needed. I truly appreciate all the comments.

If there are more, keep them coming!

Vallin

[uhgungawa]

Are you building it or hunting down a made to order?

if you are doing Made to Order check these out

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

http://www.ibuypower.com/

they'll save you alot of cash over the big boys, and have life time tech support

[Vallin]

Are you building it or hunting down a made to order?

if you are doing Made to Order check these out

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

http://www.ibuypower.com/

they'll save you alot of cash over the big boys, and have life time tech support

The plan was to make it as a father-son project - getting all the pieces from newegg.com

Vallin

[shokenaw]

I am not too sure how that MoBo does sound for ya, and I might be suffering from a hang over. None-the-less, I am a audio freak and I would suggest a big glitzy soundcard and set up surround sound. I know DDO players use headset, I was thinking more along the lines of home entertainment.

Step 1 - get a good sound card and surround sound system for it.
Step 2 - 24" monitor (or a TV...which lately hasn't been a huge decrease in reso)
Step 3 - kick the kid out of his room and set the computer up in there with a few leather chairs (lazyboy prefered), get that surround sound set up, pop on a movie and sit back and relax

Sorta what I have...just minus the kid part.

[Steiner-Davion]

newegg.com is the best for Online purchases. There are many specialty shops I use on occation for Water cooling, or tested memory, but the vast majority of my online purchases come from the egg.

Yeah I've done most of my shopping for components form them in the past myself, but I thought I saw someone post a few months back another great site, that I checked out at work and forgot to bookmark, that beat them price wise hands down.

[Steiner-Davion]

Are you building it or hunting down a made to order?

if you are doing Made to Order check these out

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

http://www.ibuypower.com/

they'll save you alot of cash over the big boys, and have life time tech support

I was planning on building it myself, or the parts, put it together. Not to hard really. Its just finding the right price for the components. I'm looking to do the same myself this summer and looking to spending no more than $1000 give or take. Is that possible? I prefer Intel to AMD, was planning on going with VISTA Basic, not sure on the differences between all the different levels of Vista, but I figured I do not need all the bells and whistles there. Figure I should get at LEAST 4GB of RAM as well, and would like it to be expandable past that to 8GB when needed.

Also I have a decent 19" Viewsonic flatscreen LCD monitor, and will upgrade from that when finances allow.

OP, sorry for hijakcing your thread.

[Vallin]

I was planning on building it myself, or the parts, put it together. Not to hard really. Its just finding the right price for the components. I'm looking to do the same myself this summer and looking to spending no more than $1000 give or take. Is that possible? I prefer Intel to AMD, was planning on going with VISTA Basic, not sure on the differences between all the different levels of Vista, but I figured I do not need all the bells and whistles there. Figure I should get at LEAST 4GB of RAM as well, and would like it to be expandable past that to 8GB when needed.

Also I have a decent 19" Viewsonic flatscreen LCD monitor, and will upgrade from that when finances allow.

OP, sorry for hijakcing your thread.

Ah, that's ok - prices are fun to talk about too. The system that I listed in the original post can be built for only $1600 or so (monitor not included) - which really isn't all that expensive when you think about the power you are getting. Buying a super high end system from a commercial dealer can be double the cost of building it yourself.

Vallin

[uhgungawa]

I was planning on building it myself, or the parts, put it together. Not to hard really. Its just finding the right price for the components. I'm looking to do the same myself this summer and looking to spending no more than $1000 give or take. Is that possible? I prefer Intel to AMD, was planning on going with VISTA Basic, not sure on the differences between all the different levels of Vista, but I figured I do not need all the bells and whistles there. Figure I should get at LEAST 4GB of RAM as well, and would like it to be expandable past that to 8GB when needed.
Also I have a decent 19" Viewsonic flatscreen LCD monitor, and will upgrade from that when finances allow.

OP, sorry for hijakcing your thread.

For a grand, not too hard, but if you want to expand your ram past 4 gigs (really 3.5 unless you change the BIOS) you'll need to go with Vista 64

[Magnicallus]

Great system... currently building pretty much the same except for i went with:

gtx 280 - Zotac makes one oc'd @ 700 MHz for $304 after rebate on newegg

1000w corsair ps(in case i go sli but doubt ill need it, still nice to futureproof as much as possible)

Dont know what you are building your system for hopefully not just DDO .
I plan on putting this in my living room so went out and got a hdtv card, soundblaster and a 46" samsung 120 hz TOC with the 4 ms response time for gaming(this should be a beast, nothing but great reviews on this tv)

...send me an im and ill tell you more if interested


BTW, Gigabyte makes a mobo that does crossfire and sli
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P LGA 1366 Intel X58 - Holds upto 24 gig of ram

[Steiner-Davion]

For a grand, not too hard, but if you want to expand your ram past 4 gigs (really 3.5 unless you change the BIOS) you'll need to go with Vista 64

What is the real difference between Basic and 64? The only real reason why I'm willing installing Vista is for DX10 and the fact XP is or will soon no longer be supported.

[xman26]

OK I am tired of my x1950 problems. Here is a system I am going to build - anyone see any difficulties with this setup - or does anyone have any recommendations for something better?

CPU: Intel Core i7 920 2.66 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P
RAM: 6 GB (3x2) OCZ Gold DDR3 1600 MHz
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1 GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital Velociraptor 10000 RPM 300 GB
Power Supply: Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W
Case: Antec 1200 Steel Full Tower
CPU Heatsink: Vigor Monsoon III LT
DVD Drive: LG 22X DVD Burner Combo Drive
OS: Vista Home Premium 64

I appreciate any feedback. I only know enough to be extremely dangerous.

Vallin

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=171061

Heres a good layout list I created awhile ago.

[xman26]

I was planning on building it myself, or the parts, put it together. Not to hard really. Its just finding the right price for the components. I'm looking to do the same myself this summer and looking to spending no more than $1000 give or take. Is that possible? I prefer Intel to AMD, was planning on going with VISTA Basic, not sure on the differences between all the different levels of Vista, but I figured I do not need all the bells and whistles there. Figure I should get at LEAST 4GB of RAM as well, and would like it to be expandable past that to 8GB when needed.

Also I have a decent 19" Viewsonic flatscreen LCD monitor, and will upgrade from that when finances allow.

OP, sorry for hijakcing your thread.

See my post above.

[xman26]

Are you building it or hunting down a made to order?

if you are doing Made to Order check these out

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/

http://www.ibuypower.com/

they'll save you alot of cash over the big boys, and have life time tech support

Not bad sites if you dont mind the high likely of having headaches in the form of tech support or having the wrong setup sent to you.

[Strakeln]

I'd double the video card. Big monitors are getting cheaper by the minute, games are getting more intense. A 1GB card can handle a 30" for any game today, but for tomorrow, who knows.