R5000 pc budget

LiengLiengZA

LiengLiengZA

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I can get:
Asus p5kl-am mobo
4 gig ddr2 800mhz ram
Intel 2.5 dual core cpu
320gig hdd
160gig ext hdd
dvd writer
gigabyte odin 585w psu
nvidia gts 250 512mb gpu
keyboard + mouse
19" lcd monitor....all for about R4750.you think it's a good deal,cause my budget is R5000.
 
kelevra said:
I can get:
Asus p5kl-am mobo
4 gig ddr2 800mhz ram
Intel 2.5 dual core cpu
320gig hdd
160gig ext hdd
dvd writer
gigabyte odin 585w psu
nvidia gts 250 512mb gpu
keyboard + mouse
19" lcd monitor....all for about R4750.you think it's a good deal,cause my budget is R5000.
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yeah, that is pretty crazy good :)
 
yeah that's a nice setup for that price. can you give us a low down on the parts prices or is this a prebuild system?
 
kelevra said:
I can get:
Asus p5kl-am mobo
4 gig ddr2 800mhz ram
Intel 2.5 dual core cpu
320gig hdd
160gig ext hdd
dvd writergigabyte odin 585w psu
nvidia gts 250 512mb gpu
keyboard + mouse
19" lcd monitor....all for about R4750.you think it's a good deal,cause my budget is R5000.
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@ waco - bolded items are pre built but i'm getting lcd,gpu and 160gig extra so that the system doesn't look that second hand.
 
the GTS 250 that I can get is 512mb for R1500.then PCINT asks almost the same for a 1gig card.trouble is i'm not gonna be able to fetch the card saturday.my question is will the 512mb have a huge impact on the system if i do not take the 1 gig?
 
Go for the 1Gig if you ever plan to go for a 22" screen or larger.

on larger resolutions, more texture memory is needed.
 
Sapphiron said:
Go for the 1Gig if you ever plan to go for a 22" screen or larger.

on larger resolutions, more texture memory is needed.
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well, not really, it's only with lots of AA and very high res do 512mb cards lose stream. Also you must remember we are talking about a gts250 here... the memory has a 70gb/s rate, and the gpu is fast no doubt, but isn't a Behemoth like a GTX285... So you'll run out of bandwidth and gpu power before you really require 1gig memory.

kelevra said:
If all fails and i must get 512mb will it be fine if the screen is 19"?
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the 512mb will be fine ;). And on a 19" screen it will be just fine :). ha ha.

SaiyanZ said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-ram-4870,2428.html

At 1920x1080 only GTAIV and Farcry2 benefits from having more than 512MB ram.
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Well there's the ocular proof boys. Basically, you need a very fast gpu, very high bandwidth and a pretty demanding game (or, I think the high res textures in DX11 mode will chow memory, hence the 1gig standard on the ATI 5800 series). the gts250 is great, and fast, but it doesn't have bandwidth fast enough nor a processor fast enough to effectively use 1 gig memory to it's fullest :)
 
kelevra said:
I can get:
Asus p5kl-am mobo
4 gig ddr2 800mhz ram
Intel 2.5 dual core cpu
320gig hdd
160gig ext hdd
dvd writer
gigabyte odin 585w psu
nvidia gts 250 1gig gpu
keyboard + mouse
19" lcd monitor....all for about R4750.you think it's a good deal,cause my budget is R5000.
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case is just standard for now but i'm saving for something hectic.
 
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