What is the BEST PC currently available?

**AussieGiant** · 07-13-2007, 19:34

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

What a rip off. My PC is better than any of those and costs only $1300

And what do you have for 1300?

It is certainly cheaper to do it yourself, that is very clear. But if you don't have the time, or skill, plus a little money then I was pleasantly surprised.

**Husar** · 07-13-2007, 20:54

Originally Posted by AussieGiant

And what do you have for 1300?

It is certainly cheaper to do it yourself, that is very clear. But if you don't have the time, or skill, plus a little money then I was pleasantly surprised.

My local dealer charges just 20EUR to build the whole thing I think.

**I Am Herenow** · 07-14-2007, 07:39

OK, well then what parts/PC should I get in order to be able to run Vista Ultimate and M2TW on high settings without a problem, but which doesn't cost too much?

**Husar** · 07-14-2007, 11:41

Well, Vista Ultimate runs on an Athlon XP 2400+ with a 6600GT 128MB and 1GB DDR 333.

For Medieval 2 to run on highest settings you will need a bit more, for example a Core 2 Duo 6600, an 8800GTS 320 and 2 GB of DDR2 667. Add to that a nice PSU of around 500 Watts and a decent mainboard with some Intel chipset(don't know much about them) or an NVidia NForce 650i and whatever else you might need and Medieval 2 should run fine. Now the Ultimate question is why you would shell out money for Vista Ultimate instead of Home Premium since most of the additional stuff in the very expensive Ultimate is stuff most people don't really need.
Ok, I kind of thought about Ultimate before because it's like a personal penis elongation to have the best of the best etc, but after checking down there again and seeing the final price I decided I don't really need that.

Besides I got Business for free and even though that has less multimedia capabilities than Home Premium, it can do all the things I want after installing a DVD player (which is not necessary for Home Premium).
At the bottom of this page you can see the main differences between the different versions of Vista.

**alman7272** · 07-16-2007, 06:00

Well, I'd love to have this:

CPU: QX6800 Quad Core
Mobo: Good 680i or 975X mobo
Graphics: 2x 8800 Ultras in SLI

Monitor: 24" Dell Ultrasharp
Hard Drive: 2x WD 150 gig Raptors for OS, 4x 1 TB drives

Sound: E-MU 1616M 16 channels with a home theater speaker system
Case: Antec 900
Cooling: Phase Change!
PSU: 1 kW PC Power & Cooling *drool*
RAM: 8GB Quad Channel ~ Yes, it's true
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: G5 7-button, or Razer Copperhead probably...
Headphones: Sennheiser HD555, would prolly need another one for gaming since this lacks a mic..

...and what the hell -- throw in a TV tuner in there too! And of course, get it to look nice and glowy. :)

**Husar** · 07-16-2007, 11:43

Tsk. You didn't even choose an SSD but then again, 32GB SSDs currently cost about as much as the rest of your system.

And keep in mind that the 650i is, from the benchmarks I've seen, faster than it's big brother concerning gaming performance.
Oh and I don't think quad channel exists for RAM, you can have four sticks but I think they still run in dual channel mode.