Best Gaming PC?

Rover 06

What is the best gaming PC out there at the moment. I hear ALienware are at the forefront at the moment but i would like any suggestions. I've an outdated PC and an Xbox and neither can live up to the next gen games of today. not that impressed with the xbox 360 so far so thinking of getting a gaming pc and then a ps3 when it comes out soon...

gamer

Amd pc with 1gig ram , cpu amd64 ,with 256megpci-x graphics card,dvi/vga . amd athlon3700 cpu ,u cud get 1 for 1000euros if you built it yourself , or just do search amd gaming pc ,buy the pc with the fast amd64bit cpu.get at least 4 usb, with on board 7.1 sound with 3pci slots.You could spend 350e just on a grahics card,depends on your budget.

SeantheMan

There are loads of companies out there that do gamingPC.s such as Alienware and teh Dell XPS

HOwever, the cheapest and probably best option is to build it yourself.

Top PC would probably involve

Athlon FX-57 chip - (bout 1000 euro)
Fatal1ty motherboard
Nvidia 2x7800GT(another 800)
2 x Raptor 1000rpm HDD's
bout 2gig or RAM

That should sort you for the next 5-6 years.
But itd be expensive as hell

Also, check out

http://www.wired2fire.co.uk
http://www.dell.ie
http://www.meshcomputers.com

Khannie

Around 3 grand for an absolute stonker of a computer if you build it yourself. Around 1500 for a very decent machine.

R0ot

Alienware Machine FTW i know you could build the same for cheaper but they just look so cool, if i had the money one would be bought

Dcully

Alienware are for kiddies who are fooled by the looks.
I built an awesome machine with a far better looking case than any alienware for far less.
Runs everything i throw it at max settings 4 or 6 Xfsaa.
If and when i need more horsepower ill throw in another 7800GTX
Dont waste your money on overpriced marketing hype like alienware.

Asus A8N SLI So939
AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Processor 4400+ + So939
Seagate Barracuda 250GB HD
Maxtor 40GB HD
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D [CD 40x Rd, 40x Wr] [DVD 5x Rd, 5x Wr]
Asus DVD-E616P3 [CD 16x Rd] [DVD 2x Rd]
Geforce 7800GTX PCIExpress 256MB
2GB DDR
Creative Soundblaster live sound card
XBlade Tower Case
Samsung 930BF 19" 4ms LCD

angelofdeath

yeah i'd second build yourself, but if you must, another good company to check out are www.widowpc.com

tba

Dcully wrote:

far better looking case than any alienware

Dcully wrote:

XBlade Tower Case

That case is visually offensive, even more so than the alienware ones

Dcully

lol sensitive guy arent you taking offense from a case

Looks good enough to me,besides its whats under the bonnet that counts a case is purely cosmetic.

tba

Dcully wrote:

besides its whats under the bonnet that counts a case is purely cosmetic.

I agree, and in that sense an Alienware computer, although expensive, would sate the original posters needs.

Orion

Dcully wrote:

a case is purely cosmetic.

Not exactly. The appearance of the case is cosmetic but the case itself is important. Good cases have room for expansion and good airflow. Bad airflow causes overheating and shortens lifespan of cpu and gfx cards. But it's not always price - I have a nice little beige €40 case that has excellent airflow through it.

tba

Macros42 wrote:

The appearance of the case is cosmetic but the case itself is important.

That is infact more accurate, although functional and asthetic cases do exist

Dcully

Not exactly. The appearance of the case is cosmetic but the case itself is important. Good cases have room for expansion and good airflow. Bad airflow causes overheating and shortens lifespan of cpu and gfx cards. But it's not always price - I have a nice little beige €40 case that has excellent airflow through it.

Er that goes without saying.

RazielDoomgate

well if your going to be buying a new pc and dont know enough to trust yourself with building one you should by a ready made pc.
in this case i would go with CYBERPOWER's gamer ultra 900 its has all you need and a little extra. for £1159 you get the amd X2 4400 nvidia 7800gt, a nforce4 motherboard, 1gb of corsair ram and 400gb hd +wifi. then you just need to worry about geting a monitor.

though if your going to be building yourself then you can get away with spending a lot less. i myself am upgrading in 2 months and buying a nvidia 7800gtx 512mb a DFI Lanparty motherboard (it got dual gb lan ) TV card, wifi, amd x2 4400 and some more harddrives for less then €1500. which to me is the much better deal... all im waiting for is komplett to start stocking my gfx card.

ShiverinEskimo

See WizZards sig for probably the best gaming PC you could build today.

FX-60, 2 gigs ram, 2 x RAIDed Raptors, 2 x 7800GTX's. Doesn't get much better than that. Bastard.

RazielDoomgate

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

See WizZards sig for probably the best gaming PC you could build today.

FX-60, 2 gigs ram, 2 x RAIDed Raptors, 2 x 7800GTX's. Doesn't get much better than that. Bastard.

eek quick post...

i'm not so sure about that.. the new dell, yes i said it the new dell xps has had a face lift (all firery painted case) has quad sli supporting 4 nvidia 7800gtx 512mb cards... thats 2gbs of graphics memory.. but heres the bad news.. its a dell and its said to cost upto $8000. but heres the good news.... quad sli isnt a dell

ShiverinEskimo

Aye - I saw that. But I did say "Build" - You cant build quad SLi yet I don't think - its exclusive to dell at the mo isn't it?

conzy

you can build quad 7800gt, with the ASUS Dual 7800gts, but they are 800 each on komplett.

OUCH:eek:

You could get 2*7800gtx 512mbs for that price, What would win?
Probably the 512s

DemonOfTheFall

You can't built quad 7800GT with the dual 7800GTs on komplett. 2 of them won't work together.

conzy

Yes they do, Toms hardware or someone did it, it works but its not "oficially supported" by NVIDIA yet so it was a bit buggy, but it worked;)