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Best Gaming PC?

by warleque Jun 19, 2006 10:27PM PDT

Im looking to buy a PC for gaming and multimedia only, under $3,000.00 preferably. Ive been looking at Dell, Alienware, and Velocity micro. any other manufacturers that i should be looking at? any input would be very helpful

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Best is a moving target but considering the Graphics Card is
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 19, 2006 10:43PM PDT

It's widely accepted that the video card is one of the key components for gamer machines. For example this 1G RAM dual GPU card from http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121017 would eat 600 bucks of your budget but is almost the top end of the graphics card offerings. Yes there is a version that uses 3 of these cards but it's unsure if you want to put 1,800 bucks into the video section.

Find a nice dual core CPU with 1 or 2GB RAM and you'll be pretty close to what's best today.

Bob

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Best Gaming PC
by argusg Jun 21, 2006 10:06AM PDT

In my experience, all of the computer companies you listed are either overpriced, use cheap parts, have poor customer service, or some combination of the three. Alienware was, at one time, phenominal. They have since sold out and are in fact owned by Dell. Dell, needless to say, uses CHEAP parts. Velocity Micro is OK, but I wouldn't ever buy from them. Try out StealthMachines. They are a small company that uses high quality parts and is VERY friendly (the owner contacted me personally and was VERY cool). http://www.stealthmachines.com Best of luck!

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3 7950's?
by nathanpsz2 Jun 21, 2006 12:33PM PDT

Six GPU's? Link, please! I thought you could only do quad-SLI with those.

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Dell
by argusg Jun 22, 2006 1:32AM PDT

Dell put that out a few months ago. It's still fairly expensive (needless to say, that's a LOT of hardware.) If it wasn't a Dell, I'd consider buying it lol

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Yes, 3 !!! Link with pictures.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 22, 2006 2:03AM PDT
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by WhyFi Jun 22, 2006 5:33AM PDT

I've seen that, but that's 3 X1900's - 2 in crossfire and 1 being used as a PPU.

A 7950 is like 2 7900's snadwiched together, in essence, SLI on a single card. THAT'S what nathan is talking about - 3 of them would be 6 GPUs and 3 gigs worth of vram.

Also, I don't believe that nVidias can be used as PPUs at this time...

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Oops sorry. There is a triple system out there.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 22, 2006 5:42AM PDT

I rushed looking for it but it is out there on google.com somewhere.

Remember the original poster noted "best" so the trio of these 1G RAM dual GPU cards is about the upper atmosphere today.

Bob

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