hermes09 Posted April 25, 2010 (edited) I'm starting my life as college student and want to have a system with gaming capabilities with budget under $1000 anyone kind enough to give advice? I am fan of AMD (well, sorry about that) and thinking of AMD Athlon II with graphic from NVIDIA and i'd like to buy GeForce GTX 480. Any other suggestion? Any suggestion are welcomed. included the cases and other hardware. EDIT: I would prefer if you could give me suggestion with FULL hardware like the monitor and so on, and yes, below OR $1000 EDIT: If you think GTX 480 too pricey change with Radeon 58xx or 57xx series and i'd like a motherboard with 890 Series Chipset from AMD or 790FX Series Chipset (I'm basically not an IGP(eg. 790GX) fan). Also, I'm not really into encoding video thingy nor Photo Editing so i don't really need a processor with Quad core but the suggestion are welcomed. EDIT(Again): I was thinking of ASUS Crosshair IV but no, thus this came to my mind: ASUS Crosshair III [email protected]$275 XFX [email protected]$315 TRENDSONIC Hummer - [email protected]$69.5 WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB 7200 [email protected]$67 LG [email protected]$29.5 COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 700 [email protected]$135 A-DATA 4GB Kit [email protected]$122 Total $1013 Any other suggestion? Edited April 27, 2010 by hermes09 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
premiumgfx Posted April 25, 2010 Hi Hermes, and welcome to OCC! ^_^ I have one question: do you want to include a GTX 480 inside the $1000 budget? PremiumGFX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skreewy Posted April 25, 2010 I would suggest getting the following: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition $159.99 ASUS M4A79XTD EVO $118.99 GIGABYTE GV-N470D5-13I-B $349.99 G.SKILL F3-12800CL9D-2GBNQ $64.99 Western Digital WD5001AALS $69.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX $109.99 LG Black GH24NS50 $19.99 NZXT M59 $59.99 total $953.92 It would be an excellent gaming rig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hermes09 Posted April 26, 2010 Hi Hermes, and welcome to OCC! ^_^ I have one question: do you want to include a GTX 480 inside the $1000 budget? PremiumGFX Yes, and that's why i choose Athlon II to minimize the budget so i can get a GTX 480 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CowKing Posted April 26, 2010 case $60 Motherboard $85 Power Supply $75 CPU $99 Memory $110 GTX 480 $510 W7 $100 Total=$1040 you'll have to reuse your dvd drive and hard drive, but yeah that's basically it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AddictedGamer93 Posted April 27, 2010 I would suggest getting the following:AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition $159.99 ASUS M4A79XTD EVO $118.99 GIGABYTE GV-N470D5-13I-B $349.99 G.SKILL F3-12800CL9D-2GBNQ $64.99 Western Digital WD5001AALS $69.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX $109.99 LG Black GH24NS50 $19.99 NZXT M59 $59.99 total $953.92 It would be an excellent gaming rig. I agree with Skreewy, what he's listed would be an excellent choice. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hermes09 Posted April 27, 2010 (edited) I would suggest getting the following:AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition $159.99 ASUS M4A79XTD EVO $118.99 GIGABYTE GV-N470D5-13I-B $349.99 G.SKILL F3-12800CL9D-2GBNQ $64.99 Western Digital WD5001AALS $69.99 CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX $109.99 LG Black GH24NS50 $19.99 NZXT M59 $59.99 total $953.92 It would be an excellent gaming rig. Thanks for the suggestion. Any other? Edited April 28, 2010 by hermes09 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
