Spilled

Hello, After Looking around this is the Parts that I have found for my new computer. What I'm posting for is some opinions on the parts and suggestions that you may have.

This computer will be for mainly Gaming (Counter-Strike Mainly) so these are some must haves that I have came up with.

- Intel Core 2 Duo
- 4gb of 800MHz DDR2
- Gigabit Onboard Lan
- Atleast 1 PCI Express Slot (For Newer Video Card Down the road, For now I'll Use the Onboard)

Here are the parts I Selected (Link Provided).

Intel Core2 Duo 2.66 4mb Cache
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...=CP1-DUO-E6750

Kingston DDR2 800MHz
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...4&Sku=K24-5416

ECS GF7100PVT-M Motherboard
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=S458-1290

OCZ StealthXStream 600w
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=O261-2008

PowerUp AK-07 ATX Mid-T Case
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=TC3J-4505

Any better Values for around the same Price or cheaper? Opinions? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

emosun

The on board graphics aren't gonna play counterstrike very well or maybe not at all. Also I would recommend if you want something thats going to last into the future to look at some pci-e 2.0 boards and some ddr3 boards. If not the board then consider a pci-e 2.0 video card later on. The parts you selected will work together just fine tho.

Spilled

Just got a 256mb Radeon 9550 Video Card from friend, Will that run Counter-Strike Stable? Can you recommend a PCI-E 2.0 Board? Thanks for the reply Emosun, Any other Opinions/Suggestions?

emosun

The radeon 9 series cards are pretty old. I usually always recommend a ati x series or higher as the 9 series are pretty dated. I would imagine its not going to run counterstrike very well at all. I would suggest a x series or higher if you want the games to be decent.

Spilled

Ok I will be looking into that card. What about the motherboard, Recommend me a good one? Sorry for asking so many questions, just want to get the right hardware because I don't have money to buy it twice. Thanks alot for your help emosun.

emosun

The motherboard you picked will actually be pretty good. If you want a ddr3 mobo with pci-e 2.0 they get really expensive. So unless you can afford to go all out then the one you picked is ok.

And as for the video card, I would recommend a radeon HD2600 or higher or a geforce 8600 or higher. Or a radeon x1600 or a geforce 7900 be the minimum you get.

And then maybe the antec trio 650w as a better psu.

alupis

remember that counter strike is an old game... a 9 series ati will be just fine man... and as far as counter strike goes... u don't need a lot. 4gb will be nice, but if your trying to save some cash... go with 2 gb, because you can always buy more ram later... and a pci-e 2.0 isn't a necessity, just a nice to have thing. pci-e 1 will be around for a long time, and all of the cards that are in pci-e will play css perfectly, as long as you don't buy the $50 cards like the 5000 series nvidia or the 8000 series ati. my friend plays css with a very old ATI 9600 All-In-Wonder card and he has just as smooth frames as my 7900GTX gets. i can still play every new game out there on the highest settings with the exeption of the newest Direct X 10 games,(which most cards can't anyways) and my specs are:

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mother board
1 gb Kingston Ram
250 GB Maxtor SATAII HDD
BFG Nvidia 7900GTX Video Card
Ultra 500 Watt PSU

thats an old set-up by todays standards, and i just built that last year... lol!
it still takes on any game though!

1 g0t 0wn3d

Yeah i can to (but cod4 but i think thats a software isssue)