Rate my budget build! Tips appreciated!

Here it is, im planning on running newer games at medium, and if possible, high settings. This is just a start, I will be upgrading in the future. This is my first build. Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 (Planning to OC to 2.8Ghz at stock cooling) $80HEC HP585D 585w Power Supply (Seems to be a decent power supply by looking at the reviews) $23 G. SKILL DDR2 2gb RAM (Not sure which one to get: 1st one, 2nd one, both have similar prices, need advice on which one is the better value, also planning on OC'ing this) $40-$44RAIDMAX Ares ATX Case (From reviews, seems to have great airflow, and a great bang for the buck) $33

2600xt PCI-E Graphics Card (Newegg link, got it cheaper for $40, it was also 256mb GDDR3 instead, looks like this card has overheating problems, might re-sell it since I bought it off ebay.)Gigabyte P35 Mobo Windows XP 32 Bit OS

CD Drive from Old ComputerAlso might add another 1gb from old computer to new rig, if its possible to overclock that is.EDIT: Looks like I really screwed up with the graphics card, any recomendations around the $40-$50 price line for a new graphics card? It could be a 2600xt, but a different brand that doesn't overheat. Rate my budget build! Tips appreciated!
4/10Get a better graphics card, OC the CPU more(or get a new one), I'd prefer a brand name PSU, and the mobo and case are okay.Meh, I'd suggest just saving up your money and building around Christmas. Rate my budget build! Tips appreciated!
It's a good budget build. You can get a 8800GT for the price of the 2600xt and then overclock it. You could also spend $40 more and get a hd4850. I would add another gig of RAM since the stuff is dirt cheap.
I couldn't find a card at 50$ that offered reasonably good performance, but at 60$ you can buy an X850 XT. It should run most of today's games at medium settings at 1024X768, though for today's more demanding games I can't guarantee that. (I wouldn't even bother trying Crysis on it) I highly recommend you allow yourself a larger budget, as price to performance is a lot better once you get to cards that are 100$ and over.
Yopu need to put more money towards a better graphics card, if you get a P31-DS3L, an E2160 you should be abloe to splash out on a better graphics card!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227139Get that RAM, its only $20Your build looks pretty good except for the video card. Get a 9600GT, an 8800GT, or ideally an ATI 4850
On a budget, then I would recommend you check out this link:http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26500316Go down to teqilasonriser message and click the This rig link
brand name PSU's are better, i recommend thermaltake, OCZ, coolermaster, enermax, etc. 585w is enough - wattage wiseIf you are loking for cheap ram - Corsair is reliable and stable - there is a 2 gb twin pack (1024 mb x 2) for arond 40-50 bucks.If you are sticking with an ATI card - try HD 3650. or Nvidia 8600gt - maybe even 9600 GSO - depending on budget.Mobo is not bad, case is not a bad price either
[QUOTE=''Swiftstrike5'']It's a good budget build. You can get a 8800GT for the price of the 2600xt and then overclock it. You could also spend $40 more and get a hd4850. I would add another gig of RAM since the stuff is dirt cheap.[/QUOTE]Really? Can you get me a link?
Here's about as ''budget'' as I would reccommend. It's very cheap and will max out everything so long as you're using no larger than a 22'' 1680x1050 or comparible monitor:$119.99 Antec 900 Case
$099.99 Antec NeoPower 650W PSU
$014.99 Antec 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
$026.99 Samsung DVD R/W
$084.99 Seagate Barracuda 500GB HD
$189.99 VisionTek Radeon HD 4850
$084.99 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 800 SDRAM
$109.99 MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
$149.99 ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 Motherboard
$124.99 Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale

TOTAL: $1006.90

Or if you can afford the extra $50 replace E7200 with
$174.99 Intel Core 2 Due E8400 WolfdaleOr for extra $100 replace 4850 with:$289.99 VisionTek Radeon 4870I also find quite invaluable this sweet item which looks especially good in an Antec 900:$028.99 Silverstone LED Controller Panel
[QUOTE=''WDT-BlackKat'']Here's about as ''budget'' as I would reccommend. It's very cheap and will max out everything so long as you're using no larger than a 22'' 1680x1050 or comparible monitor:$119.99 Antec 900 Case
$099.99 Antec NeoPower 650W PSU
$014.99 Antec 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
$026.99 Samsung DVD R/W
$084.99 Seagate Barracuda 500GB HD
$189.99 VisionTek Radeon HD 4850
$084.99 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 800 SDRAM
$109.99 MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
$149.99 ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 Motherboard
$124.99 Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale

TOTAL: $1006.90

Or if you can afford the extra $50 replace E7200 with
$174.99 Intel Core 2 Due E8400 WolfdaleOr for extra $100 replace 4850 with:$289.99 VisionTek Radeon 4870I also find quite invaluable this sweet item which looks especially good in an Antec 900:$028.99 Silverstone LED Controller Panel[/QUOTE]Hey, thanks for searching all that up, but thats way over my budget, and I don't plan on running Vista.
[QUOTE=''crazy-player''][QUOTE=''WDT-BlackKat'']Here's about as ''budget'' as I would reccommend. It's very cheap and will max out everything so long as you're using no larger than a 22'' 1680x1050 or comparible monitor:$119.99 Antec 900 Case
$099.99 Antec NeoPower 650W PSU
$014.99 Antec 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
$026.99 Samsung DVD R/W
$084.99 Seagate Barracuda 500GB HD
$189.99 VisionTek Radeon HD 4850
$084.99 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 800 SDRAM
$109.99 MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
$149.99 ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 Motherboard
$124.99 Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale

TOTAL: $1006.90

Or if you can afford the extra $50 replace E7200 with
$174.99 Intel Core 2 Due E8400 WolfdaleOr for extra $100 replace 4850 with:$289.99 VisionTek Radeon 4870I also find quite invaluable this sweet item which looks especially good in an Antec 900:$028.99 Silverstone LED Controller Panel[/QUOTE]Hey, thanks for searching all that up, but thats way over my budget, and I don't plan on running Vista. [/QUOTE]I'm not sure how that can be over one's budget. If you're buying parts individually then your only maximum is time, not money. Just buy what you can afford to buy now, let's say $500 worth of those parts... Then in a couple weeks when you've gotten another paycheck buy another part, and so on... until you have them all.It is also inane to use XP on a new build no matter how crappy the hardware you're using is. XP is dead.You stated in your initial post that you want to run new games at high settings. The build above is the absolute MINIMUM required to do just that. Any less and one should be mortified to let others know what computer they have.
[QUOTE=''WDT-BlackKat''][QUOTE=''crazy-player''][QUOTE=''WDT-BlackKat'']Here's about as ''budget'' as I would reccommend. It's very cheap and will max out everything so long as you're using no larger than a 22'' 1680x1050 or comparible monitor:$119.99 Antec 900 Case
$099.99 Antec NeoPower 650W PSU
$014.99 Antec 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
$026.99 Samsung DVD R/W
$084.99 Seagate Barracuda 500GB HD
$189.99 VisionTek Radeon HD 4850
$084.99 4GB (2x2GB) G.Skill DDR2 800 SDRAM
$109.99 MS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
$149.99 ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 Motherboard
$124.99 Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale

TOTAL: $1006.90

Or if you can afford the extra $50 replace E7200 with
$174.99 Intel Core 2 Due E8400 WolfdaleOr for extra $100 replace 4850 with:$289.99 VisionTek Radeon 4870I also find quite invaluable this sweet item which looks especially good in an Antec 900:$028.99 Silverstone LED Controller Panel[/QUOTE]Hey, thanks for searching all that up, but thats way over my budget, and I don't plan on running Vista. [/QUOTE]I'm not sure how that can be over one's budget. If you're buying parts individually then your only maximum is time, not money. Just buy what you can afford to buy now, let's say $500 worth of those parts... Then in a couple weeks when you've gotten another paycheck buy another part, and so on... until you have them all.It is also inane to use XP on a new build no matter how crappy the hardware you're using is. XP is dead.You stated in your initial post that you want to run new games at high settings. The build above is the absolute MINIMUM required to do just that. Any less and one should be mortified to let others know what computer they have. [/QUOTE] I don't work, I'm under-aged. :(
[QUOTE=''crazy-player'']I don't work, I'm under-aged. :( [/QUOTE]Oh well in that case just wait until after college. Spend your money on sex, drugs, and rock and roll like young people are supposed to. Then, when you're done with that, build a computer. ;)
[QUOTE=''WDT-BlackKat''][QUOTE=''crazy-player'']I don't work, I'm under-aged. :( [/QUOTE]Oh well in that case just wait until after college. Spend your money on sex, drugs, and rock and roll like young people are supposed to. Then, when you're done with that, build a computer. ;)[/QUOTE] Lol, I've been saving up quite a bit for this, and I already baught all of the parts except the RAM and Graphics Card... Oh well, I guess I'll have to save up, or wait for christmas or something.
You know for all the people who disagree with the GPU, you can upgrade. The build is good. Get the 2600XT and then when you are tierd of it upgrade to a better card.
[QUOTE=''Angry_Bosmer'']You know for all the people who disagree with the GPU, you can upgrade. The build is good. Get the 2600XT and then when you are tierd of it upgrade to a better card.[/QUOTE] Yeah, thats what I thought, I don't mind playing games on medium, just that the game is at a playable framerate. I do plan on upgrading hopefully in the future, but for now, this rig is what I need, and it is 100x better than my old rig, which was an Intel P4 500mb RAM, and an Integrated card with no support for AGP, or PCI-E. So this is a really big upgrade.
I stopped reading when I saw that 585W noname PSU. I Mean man, if your going to cut down on parts dont cut down on the psu. First of all I would go for a bit more then 585W as its one of the things you want to be future proof, secondly... buy coolermaster or something like that. The guys at coolermaster made a movie of what happens with noname psu and although they kinda overdo it, they are, to some extent, right. Get a 650W coolermaster, I found one for like 80 dollars or something like that.
[QUOTE=''N0han'']I stopped reading when I saw that 585W noname PSU. I Mean man, if your going to cut down on parts dont cut down on the psu. First of all I would go for a bit more then 585W as its one of the things you want to be future proof, secondly... buy coolermaster or something like that. The guys at coolermaster made a movie of what happens with noname psu and although they kinda overdo it, they are, to some extent, right. Get a 650W coolermaster, I found one for like 80 dollars or something like that. [/QUOTE] I think you mean Corsair, not Coolermaster. That was where the movie was from.But it sounds like he might have already bought the case and PSU. Which is too bad. I would make that an upgrade priority down the road before the graphics card even, lest you have a ticking time bomb in your house.Any PSU by Thermatake, ABS, Antec, or Hyper should be good. They have both cheaper models and better ones if you want to SLI/Crossfire down the road. I wouldn't get one by Corsair myself, although my views on Corsair are more negative due to their abyssmal RAM rather than their PSUs.
CPU: e2180 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116052GPU: 9600gso http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121251Freezer 7 pro - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134