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Answer» Hey everyone, I'm planning on building my first ever custom COMPUTER this year and i need some help on the parts. My budget is $2000 (new zealand) so $1300 US. I'll convert everything to USD to make it easier for everyone . And i have no idea about the combatibility of some of the parts. This will primarily be used for gaming and multimedia uses. (no intense graphical design tho ) All components are from my country's price-finder website pricespy.co.nz So far my plans are the following - don't be too critical, i am new to this game -AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz AM3 QUAD core cpu - $294 US -ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB graphics card - $229 US -Western Digital 1TB SATA 7200rpm hard drive - $124 US -Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Socket AM3 790FX DDR3 - $212 US (is this suitable? should i get ddr3 ram? is this an overkill?) -SuperTalent 6GB DDR3-1333 CL8 w/Heat Spreader WA133UX6 3x2GB (compatible?) - $130 US -LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray and HD DVD Reader + DVD Writer SATA - $167 US -Case, PSU and cooling - need help with deciding Total - $1156. leaving about $150 for the Case, PSU and cooling. now, i'm not sure whether ive gona the right way by getting ddr3 ram and an am3 motherboard. should i just stick with a am2 and DDR2 ram for now? also that blu-ray drive isn't a necessity. can pick up a good samsung dvd drive for $30 US if you guys think i need more parts. Any help is appreciated and please keep in mind i'm not the best at these sort of things. By the way, i don't PLAN to overclock this. just for gaming and multimedia The parts are compatible. Here's a good suggestion for your cooling, PSU, and case http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.205975hey thanks man, i love that case. hope its available in little old new zealand though . hey any suggestions/reccomendations on my build? will it be good for what i want it? what sort of ram and mobo? and what about my cpu choice and graphics card? any help on any of these would be good. i really am a noob when it comes to this. thanks again, JaredQuote from: jaredofnz on July 31, 2009, 08:26:11 AM hey thanks man, i love that case. hope its available in little old new zealand though . hey any suggestions/recommendations on my build? will it be good for what i want it? what sort of ram and mobo? and what about my cpu choice and graphics card? any help on any of these would be good. i really am a noob when it comes to this. thanks again, Jared It will be a great build. I'm not sure 6 GB or RAM will be compatible with that motherboard, it looks like the max. is 4 GB. The graphics card is great.Great, looks like a go then. here's the link to the mobo http://pconlineshop.co.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?products_id=296909 . according to them it can have 16gb of ddr3 memory if i read it correctly. what about running dual graphics cards instead? or adding another 1 later? is that possible with this build? thanks again man.Quote from: jaredofnz on July 31, 2009, 08:33:48 AM Great, looks like a go then. here's the link to the mobo http://pconlineshop.co.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?products_id=296909 . according to them it can have 16gb of ddr3 memory if i read it correctly. what about running dual graphics cards instead? or adding another 1 later? is that possible with this build? thanks again man. I'm not familiar with how ATi dual graphics work. I know if you want nVidia dual graphics you can connect them with SLi but they have to be the same model.ATI uses Crossfire...same principle.What's better out of 2 x ATI radeon hd 4950 running crossfire and two similar priced nvidea cards running SLI? thanks

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Hey everyone, I'm planning on building my first ever custom COMPUTER this year and i need some help on the parts. My budget is $2000 (new zealand) so $1300 US. I'll convert everything to USD to make it easier for everyone . And i have no idea about the combatibility of some of the parts. This will primarily be used for gaming and multimedia uses. (no intense graphical design tho )
All components are from my country's price-finder website pricespy.co.nz
So far my plans are the following - don't be too critical, i am new to this game
-AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz AM3 QUAD core cpu - $294 US
-ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB graphics card - $229 US
-Western Digital 1TB SATA 7200rpm hard drive - $124 US
-Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Socket AM3 790FX DDR3 - $212 US (is this suitable? should i get ddr3 ram? is this an overkill?)
-SuperTalent 6GB DDR3-1333 CL8 w/Heat Spreader WA133UX6 3x2GB (compatible?) - $130 US
-LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray and HD DVD Reader + DVD Writer SATA - $167 US
-Case, PSU and cooling - need help with deciding
Total - $1156. leaving about $150 for the Case, PSU and cooling. now, i'm not sure whether ive gona the right way by getting ddr3 ram and an am3 motherboard. should i just stick with a am2 and DDR2 ram for now? also that blu-ray drive isn't a necessity. can pick up a good samsung dvd drive for $30 US if you guys think i need more parts.
Any help is appreciated and please keep in mind i'm not the best at these sort of things. By the way, i don't PLAN to overclock this. just for gaming and multimedia

The parts are compatible.

Here's a good suggestion for your cooling, PSU, and case http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.205975hey thanks man, i love that case. hope its available in little old new zealand though . hey any suggestions/reccomendations on my build? will it be good for what i want it? what sort of ram and mobo? and what about my cpu choice and graphics card? any help on any of these would be good. i really am a noob when it comes to this. thanks again, JaredQuote from: jaredofnz on July 31, 2009, 08:26:11 AM

hey thanks man, i love that case. hope its available in little old new zealand though . hey any suggestions/recommendations on my build? will it be good for what i want it? what sort of ram and mobo? and what about my cpu choice and graphics card? any help on any of these would be good. i really am a noob when it comes to this. thanks again, Jared

It will be a great build. I'm not sure 6 GB or RAM will be compatible with that motherboard, it looks like the max. is 4 GB. The graphics card is great.Great, looks like a go then. here's the link to the mobo http://pconlineshop.co.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?products_id=296909 . according to them it can have 16gb of ddr3 memory if i read it correctly. what about running dual graphics cards instead? or adding another 1 later? is that possible with this build? thanks again man.Quote from: jaredofnz on July 31, 2009, 08:33:48 AM

Great, looks like a go then. here's the link to the mobo http://pconlineshop.co.nz/pcshop/product_info.php?products_id=296909 . according to them it can have 16gb of ddr3 memory if i read it correctly. what about running dual graphics cards instead? or adding another 1 later? is that possible with this build? thanks again man.

I'm not familiar with how ATi dual graphics work. I know if you want nVidia dual graphics you can connect them with SLi but they have to be the same model.ATI uses Crossfire...same principle.What's better out of 2 x ATI radeon hd 4950 running crossfire and two similar priced nvidea cards running SLI?
thanks

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