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Hi all. I am in need of advice on a new build. $500 is the absolute max I can spend and I prefer not to involve rebates at all because I have had bad experiences with them in the past. I already have a keyboard, mouse, monitor (1680 * 1050), an AMD 7770 video card, and a DVD burner from a previous computer. I would like the new computer to have an upgrade path but I understand this might not be possible with this budget. I would prefer to buy from Amazon (I know their search function sucks) as they will not charge me sales tax (9% here) or shipping. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
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1/30/13 11:29:50 AM#2
Ah, you live in New Jersey, one of the three states in which New Egg has a warehouse, and thus has to charge sales tax. That comes to $514.25. I'm assuming that you already have speakers and a surge protector from your old computer, though you didn't mention them. I realize that goes a little over your stated budget. There are likely better deals somewhere on Amazon, but their search function is such a mess that I'm not willing to find them for you. If you absolutely have to stay inside of a strict $500 budget, then the easy place to cut without getting cheap junk parts is to get a cheaper processor like one of these: Alternatively, you could drop down to 4 GB of system memory rather than 8 GB. But in either of those cases, your upgrade path will be to buy essentially what I linked above. Saving $30 on a CPU today so that you can spend an extra $130 a year from now to upgrade to what you could have bought today isn't a good idea. |
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1/30/13 11:42:19 AM#3
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003HE260I/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005POPRG8/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AZCEI3EMXUPTH http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005O65JXI/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2EUTVCJXLAJ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0088PUEPK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026ZPTR6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O8J11E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009O7YORK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Total = $472.54 Thats without an OS tho. I would use the one you have and just " arrange" for it to work until you get a bigger budget. But thats just me. I would also add another fan to the case, you may have an old one you can use, if not find a 120mm one for $4-5 and add it. With the parts you have it will make a solid PC with upgrade options. |
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Awesome advice guys. Thank you very much.
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2/01/13 6:26:11 AM#5
If you are withing driving distance of the microcenter they have great cpu/mobo combos for amd. This one would be really nice for you and would help out a lot to stay within your $500 budget.
http://www.microcenter.com/site/products/amd_bundles.aspx
The 6300 with the M5A97 from asus at $174 plus tax fits very nicely within your budget and has a nice feature set to boot.
edit bad link. |
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