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[Reaper Man]

Yay, workstations. Thanks Xet.

[Needles]

~$650 (with MiRs) Poor man's Workstation
$174.99 - CPU: Intel Xeon E3110 3.0GHz
$144.99 - Motherboard: Asus Intel 3200
$24.99() - Memory (RAM): Corsair 2x2GB DDR2 800
$119.99 - Graphics: PNY Quadro FX370
$79.99() - Power Supply: Corsair 650W
$69.99 - Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 640GB
$22.99 - DVD Burner: LG DVD Burner
$13.99 - Card Reader: Sabrent 68 in 1

The 'dirt poor' one is about 3 times nice than this $1000 one I got at dell, to bad my dad is to much of a fucking hard head to let me or even my mom buy the parts to build it.


There's no need to quote the entire post to comment on one part of it ~Timo
Timo, I meant to quote the "dirt poor' PC setup, but not the workstation.

[Lex1337]

Ignore.

[Xetsuei]

Not really. The CPU will bottleneck the fuck out of that GPU. You shouldn't of gotten such a high end GPU and such a low end CPU. Not to mention the power supply is underpowered especially for the GPU "450 Watt or greater power supply with 75 Watt 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended". One last thing, you're picked out the wrong RAM. It needs to be DDR2 1066, not DDR2 800.

In short: There are many problems with it, you should just go with my dirt poor rig even though it costs a little more.

E: madkiller92 please do not quote the whole post, just quote the dirt poor rig. Thanks

[Lex1337]

Oh, I didn't know that thing about the Ram. Thanks for telling me. I don't really know much about computers, but I tried to give it a shot.

[343guiltymc]

So if I use a Radeon 4830 card with a Pentium D, it will severely bottlenecked? Cause I've seen people who have a Pentium 4 and a 8800 GTX.

[InnerGoat]

Yeah. You can run whatever you want with your Pentium D, it'll just have a lot more slowdowns in games when a bunch of stuff is on screen (as an example, 32 man TF2 servers will play like shit for you).

[Xetsuei]

Cause I've seen people who have a Pentium 4 and a 8800 GTX.

Are you serious? Fucking retards.

[Lex1337]

Are you serious? Fucking retards.

Since I read that I have a question. I have a AMD Athlon X2 64 4450 CPU. What is the best video card I can support? I have a 160 Watt power supply(Don't make fun of me. I know it sucks.)

[Xetsuei]

What are you aiming for? Direct X9/10? Manufacturer? Also, I barely believe that you have a 160W PSU, and I REALLY hope that 9800GTX in your specs was a joke, because I don't think the PSU would even run it. The best GPU your CPU could support would need MUCH more power then that thing can put out.