Help getting a VGA card, processor and mobo

[Godwin]

I'm planning to get the Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB and the Intel E6600. The Geforce 8800 at ASUS center is around Rs.45000 and the Intel Core 2 E6600 at PC house is around Rs. 40000

Do you guys know any other good places where I can get these two for cheap ?
It should have at least one year warranty.

Also, what is the best motherboard I could get for around 20-25K here in Sri Lanka ?

Please help me.

 

[isharackp]

sorry bro don't know a exact place. but i'll try to find........

 

[disruptorx]

well seems like you're a bloody rich fellow and need a high end PC to impress your friends(no offense)

I'd say these are the general price tags for the stuff you've listed.but i suggest, if you have friend or anyother fellow you know in US or Singapore, to buy it from there.coz itll be half the price than the prices here.

And you can also lower the price by choosing the VGA's chipset.For Eg: ASUS is more expensive than Gigabyte,and its expensive than other chinese manufacturers like BioStar.(hope u get the idea)

Well the Mobo...if you want realiability with features and minimum instability go for
a Intel mobo.if you want high performance with lotsa features and good stability go for an ASUS!

hope this wud help!

 

[Godwin]

well seems like you're a bloody rich fellow and need a high end PC to impress your friends(no offense)

hehe not really, I do graphics designing as my part time job, so I need a good CPU and VGA card.

I'd say these are the general price tags for the stuff you've listed.but i suggest, if you have friend or anyother fellow you know in US or Singapore, to buy it from there.coz itll be half the price than the prices here.

I know but I don't have anyone overseas... that's the problem
Even if I do know anyone, it's risky buying expensive stuff for the fact that you have to send it back if it ain't working.

And you can also lower the price by choosing the VGA's chipset.For Eg: ASUS is more expensive than Gigabyte,and its expensive than other chinese manufacturers like BioStar.(hope u get the idea)

Do they have Gigabyte Geforce 8800GTS here

Well the Mobo...if you want realiability with features and minimum instability go for
a Intel mobo.if you want high performance with lotsa features and good stability go for an ASUS!

Thanks, I'll look into the ASUS ones then. Any particular model if you guys are using one ?

BTW, Intel has announced 50% price cuts on their quad core chips that are now around $250. And here the mid-range core 2 duos are over $400

 

[disruptorx]

ok

for graphics design you actually dont need this kind of a high end VGA n Proc..unless ure doin 3D Modelin/Animation n a Hardcore Gamer!

i agree with you abt the risk,but if u buy those stuff from a recognized online company like Circuit city(USA) or PC World (UK & USA) they have pretty cheap stuff u can rely on buyers comments.

I dnt really knw abt the availability of Gigabyte 8800 here.you should check it with PC House or Barclys

sorry man since im an AMD guy i dnt really knw abt any pentium mobos (the processor numbering drives me crazy)

Ill look into the intel quad core thing..wow thats news!!

 

[disruptorx]

ok

for graphics design you actually dont need this kind of a high end VGA n Proc..unless ure doin 3D Modelin/Animation n a Hardcore Gamer!

i agree with you abt the risk,but if u buy those stuff from a recognized online company like Circuit city(USA) or PC World (UK & USA) they have pretty cheap stuff.u can rely on buyers comments.

I dnt really knw abt the availability of Gigabyte 8800 here.you should check it with PC House or Barclys

sorry man since im an AMD guy i dnt really knw anything specifilc abt pentium mobos (the processor numbering drives me crazy)

Ill look into the intel quad core thing..wow thats news!!

 

[samiram]

I'm planning to get the Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB and the Intel E6600. The Geforce 8800 at ASUS center is around Rs.45000 and the Intel Core 2 E6600 at PC house is around Rs. 40000

Do you guys know any other good places where I can get these two for cheap ?
It should have at least one year warranty.

Also, what is the best motherboard I could get for around 20-25K here in Sri Lanka ?

Please help me.

hey.. when did you checked these prices...
When iam trying to get a 8800gts 320 they said that there is bug in that version and they wont import it anymore.. So i have to buy that 640 version..

And about the processor, i bought it for 30500 in last month from barclays...
Check the price from them too.

 

[disruptorx]

sorry for 2x replies!! the site z goin crazy!

 

[Godwin]

for graphics design you actually dont need this kind of a high end VGA n Proc..unless ure doin 3D Modelin/Animation n a Hardcore Gamer!

A graphics designer does 3D modelling/Animation as well
I use Cinema4D and the rendering speed highly depends on the CPU. With core 2, I can render Shrek's face in 2 mins
I'm not a hardcore gamer but I miss playing games like unreal and prince of persia on my shitty machine.
Also new directX10 games would be released and it's inevitable to settle for a directX10 card. So the Geforece 8000 series cards are way to go

i agree with you abt the risk,but if u buy those stuff from a recognized online company like Circuit city(USA) or PC World (UK & USA) they have pretty cheap stuff.u can rely on buyers comments.

Yes but it will cost 3000 bucks or so for shipping right ?

I dnt really knw abt the availability of Gigabyte 8800 here.you should check it with PC House or Barclys

I totally forgot about Barclays. Should check there, thanks.

sorry man since im an AMD guy i dnt really knw anything specifilc abt pentium mobos (the processor numbering drives me crazy)

I would have settled for an AMD, if the reviews/benchmarks on the net were in favor of it. I'm not saying AMD is bad, they are just behind intel in terms of technology. Lets hope the AMD Barcelona processor kicks ass

 

[Godwin]

hey.. when did you checked these prices...
When iam trying to get a 8800gts 320 they said that there is bug in that version and they wont import it anymore.. So i have to buy that 640 version..

And about the processor, i bought it for 30500 in last month from barclays...
Check the price from them too.

Really ? , I'm going to check there then. Thanks!
May I know which mobo you're using ?

Actually there is no difference between the 320 and 640(see here) at all except the memory size. Unless you're playing games on a 22" LCD or higher you really don't need 640MB of memory. I think there's nothing wrong with the 8800GTS 320M version, but the drivers. I heard that Nvidia drivers suck and some even made the cards stop working!

 

[zCexVe]

Well,finally seem to be some one is goin to hav a fine rig..
prices here sux hard.The cheapest and best place will be Barclays.Then there is NEAT.At EPSI(ASUS centre is owned by them too)U can get ASUS parts but for doubled price.Mitech hav MSI parts ,they r cheap but dont hav much options.
E 6600 would be down in next two weeks here in LK.E6300 got down and as more CPUs are coming in,I'd pretty sure it be.
If u gonna get a High end VGA,Only the EPSI hav DX10.If u dont really really need DX10 u can settle with some high end DX9.(7900GT/S/7950GT,X1950XT/X)
Coz the DX10 games will be hard to drop by more in quantities until about 2009.8800GTS 320MB is the bang for the buck.As u said no point of highr frame buffer memory,unless u play with big resolutions(Awkward).But nVIDIA hav accepted that there is a driver bug for it and we will hope that those nvidiots will fix that soon.
For a highend mobo U have to go to ASUS centre(or EPSI Head office) for sure.
An ASUS board with Intel P965/P35/975X or nVIDIA 680i is highly recommended and only available.They will cost around 25k.Namely a P5K premium P5WD deluxe like..visit http://lk.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=3&l2=11 for more available asus boards.I assume these three will fot you in for 100k LKR(I HOPE!)
.
There are Corsair Midrange and high end RAMs are available at Mylinx.Nunet do PATRIOT.Others are crap.(My fl_lckin Kingston Value DDR400 refused to run at DDR500 today while I OCed to render some videos.Crap didnt last much with OCs. )Go for some 667 while they can go to 800 without changin volts.Look for the tight things as always .I heard Kingstons do at 5-5-5-15-1T.So others would be better than that.
Kep tellin us about ur new rig.C ya.

 

[zCexVe]

And you can also lower the price by choosing the VGA's chipset.For Eg: ASUS is more expensive than Gigabyte,and its expensive than other chinese manufacturers like BioStar.(hope u get the idea)

*zCexVe dreams about ASUS and Gigabyte chipsets in the future.
Remember ASUS,MSI,GIGABYTE,XFX all are Taiwanese.DFI,FOXCONN,Club3D,SAPPHIRE,EVGA are some of the US guys.Wonder they do manufacturing at China.

 

[zCexVe]

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Originally Posted by disruptorx
sorry man since im an AMD guy i dnt really knw anything specifilc abt pentium mobos (the processor numbering drives me crazy)


I would have settled for an AMD, if the reviews/benchmarks on the net were in favor of it. I'm not saying AMD is bad, they are just behind intel in terms of technology. Lets hope the AMD Barcelona processor kicks ass

I'm an AMD fanboy too.I hav only used AMDs and will be till the company exists.
And the Barcelona is now officially known as Phenom right? well u will see GP7000/GP7100 X4 and GP6550 X2 in near future I think.

 

[Godwin]

Well,finally seem to be some one is goin to hav a fine rig..
prices here sux hard.The cheapest and best place will be Barclays.Then there is NEAT.At EPSI(ASUS centre is owned by them too)U can get ASUS parts but for doubled price.Mitech hav MSI parts ,they r cheap but dont hav much options.
E 6600 would be down in next two weeks here in LK.E6300 got down and as more CPUs are coming in,I'd pretty sure it be.
If u gonna get a High end VGA,Only the EPSI hav DX10.If u dont really really need DX10 u can settle with some high end DX9.(7900GT/S/7950GT,X1950XT/X)
Coz the DX10 games will be hard to drop by more in quantities until about 2009.8800GTS 320MB is the bang for the buck.As u said no point of highr frame buffer memory,unless u play with big resolutions(Awkward).But nVIDIA hav accepted that there is a driver bug for it and we will hope that those nvidiots will fix that soon.
For a highend mobo U have to go to ASUS centre(or EPSI Head office) for sure.
An ASUS board with Intel P965/P35/975X or nVIDIA 680i is highly recommended and only available.They will cost around 25k.Namely a P5K premium P5WD deluxe like..visit http://lk.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=3&l2=11 for more available asus boards.I assume these three will fot you in for 100k LKR(I HOPE!)
.
There are Corsair Midrange and high end RAMs are available at Mylinx.Nunet do PATRIOT.Others are crap.(My fl_lckin Kingston Value DDR400 refused to run at DDR500 today while I OCed to render some videos.Crap didnt last much with OCs. )Go for some 667 while they can go to 800 without changin volts.Look for the tight things as always .I heard Kingstons do at 5-5-5-15-1T.So others would be better than that.
Kep tellin us about ur new rig.C ya.

Thanks for the info.
Maybe a fine rig now but in 6 months time it'll be boo boo

I read somewhere that the 8800 is 70% faster than the 7900. And since I'm upgrading to vista I don't see any reason why I should go with the 7000 series cards. Check out the DX10 games to be released this year >click here

I checked the ASUS boards at their website. The P35K ones are cool. I might go for the P35 chipset so that in the future I can upgrade when the new 45nm processors come out. Can't afford to get another board just for that

Looks like 1 GB DDR2 800 is double the price of 1 GB DDR2 667
I'll go for the Corsair then. looks good.

So, yea it's going to cost me near 100k!
I haven't upgraded for 3 years so I'm hoping this upgrade would last me for 2 years or so.

 

[Godwin]

I'm an AMD fanboy too.I hav only used AMDs and will be till the company exists.
And the Barcelona is now officially known as Phenom right? well u will see GP7000/GP7100 X4 and GP6550 X2 in near future I think.

Opteron no ? Barcelona

 

[zCexVe]

Thanks for the info.
Maybe a fine rig now but in 6 months time it'll be boo boo

I read somewhere that the 8800 is 70% faster than the 7900. And since I'm upgrading to vista I don't see any reason why I should go with the 7000 series cards. Check out the DX10 games to be released this year >click here

I checked the ASUS boards at their website. The P35K ones are cool. I might go for the P35 chipset so that in the future I can upgrade when the new 45nm processors come out. Can't afford to get another board just for that

Looks like 1 GB DDR2 800 is double the price of 1 GB DDR2 667
I'll go for the Corsair then. looks good.

So, yea it's going to cost me near 100k!
I haven't upgraded for 3 years so I'm hoping this upgrade would last me for 2 years or so.

I dont think think it will exist even 3 months.U knw I planned my rig for 6 months and plans edited 3 times.Still when bought its outdated.
Anyway macho as LK guys hav less powerful PCs(no offence)We can have a >100k LKR rig(not a branded 5h17 )for about 3 years.3 main parts are CPU+VGA+RAM.Mobo is important but since it doesnt affect directly into overall performance(leavin mercury like things out)We have to max those out as far as we can IMHO.Sure u can hold for 2+years.Got DX10,Multicore,can upgrade CPU,DDR2/3 is not bad.(I'm deffa ull stick with 2 ).
I strongly recommend 2GB DDR667 something.NO 1GB FOR YOU.Or fix it at later since newer chipsets have more freedom in DDR Dual channel.

The board thing happen to me hope u'll ware it.I got a Socket 939 with I had the chance for AM2(there werent any gr8 mobos though) but thought 939 will hold on.Now AMD has decided even backword compatibility for AM2.

 

[zCexVe]

Opteron no ? Barcelona

Nope.Thats an old review.Names changed quickly.Go here.Its the latest press release after much more hiding.view the slideshow too.Its very easy to understand pics.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33122/130/

 

[Godwin]

I dont think think it will exist even 3 months.U knw I planned my rig for 6 months and plans edited 3 times.Still when bought its outdated.
Anyway macho as LK guys hav less powerful PCs(no offence)We can have a >100k LKR rig(not a branded 5h17 )for about 3 years.3 main parts are CPU+VGA+RAM.Mobo is important but since it doesnt affect directly into overall performance(leavin mercury like things out)We have to max those out as far as we can IMHO.Sure u can hold for 2+years.Got DX10,Multicore,can upgrade CPU,DDR2/3 is not bad.(I'm deffa ull stick with 2 ).
I strongly recommend 2GB DDR667 something.NO 1GB FOR YOU.Or fix it at later since newer chipsets have more freedom in DDR Dual channel.

The board thing happen to me hope u'll ware it.I got a Socket 939 with I had the chance for AM2(there werent any gr8 mobos though) but thought 939 will hold on.Now AMD has decided even backword compatibility for AM2.

Yes machan, but today we really don't need to go that extra mile for performance, unless for enterprise use. The intel core 2 processors are decent and have enough juice to gear anything up, plus it's over-clockable(the E6300 can be overclocked to 3.0Ghz ). It'll take another 2 years or so we could see something like the jump from pentium 4s to core2's.

If you had planned to get a PC before the core2 was introduced then you would have need to change your whole system to support anything new. But today technology has advanced so much it's predictable. In intel's term it's called "forward compatibility", for the fact that they have already released their P35 chipset that they claim would support their future 45nm processors.

It'll take time for the quads to come here and you need powerful cooling solutions since they can get extremely hot. I wonder how hot the Barcelona chips would get, imagine using those on a laptop!

 

[Godwin]

Nope.Thats an old review.Names changed quickly.Go here.Its the latest press release after much more hiding.view the slideshow too.Its very easy to understand pics.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33122/130/

The names they keep Puma, Bobcat, Falcon, Hawk
The Falcon looks interesting where they have inegrated CPU/GPU in one chip. But even then, IBM has been making such chips and the XBOX 360 CPU is an example.

Intel is just a tough competitor. They were full force into the P4, and AMD was playing to beat it. But when they finally and narrowly did beat the P4 and the failed NetBurst architecture it turns out Intel had a whole second line of processor research which came up with the P-M and ultimately the C2D.

AMD couldn't compete with the P-M or its successors. It seems like the whole development with notebooks making up more than 50% of new PCs sold and low power chips much more interesting took AMD completely by surprise. No back-up plan like the P-M there.

With the acquisition of ATI AMD ATI is once again competing. They have a lot of tech now which can make for some very interesting products. My only fear is that AMD simply doesn't have enough imagination to pull it off. And Intel meanwhile is frantically researching its own 3D chips.

Check out the Barcelona benchmarks

 

[earthling]

I'm planning to get the Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB and the Intel E6600. The Geforce 8800 at ASUS center is around Rs.45000 and the Intel Core 2 E6600 at PC house is around Rs. 40000

Do you guys know any other good places where I can get these two for cheap ?
It should have at least one year warranty.

Also, what is the best motherboard I could get for around 20-25K here in Sri Lanka ?

Please help me.

Yup..the price for a GeForce 8000 series Asus PCI Express card of 300+ MB is about 40,000..My jaw nearly hit the floor when the guy in the Asus Center told me..I already have a Asus Geforce 6900 card which I bought for Rs. 8000...32,000 more just for an upgraded graphic card ?

But It seems that the Asus Center prices in MC are ridiculous.. they have an Asus casing for 15,000 where in other places the same thing can be bought for 4500...

You dont need an 8000 series just for graphic designing... a 7000 series will be more than enough (Ithey are much cheaper and aare excellent cards)..You only need the 8000 series to play Advance games ..even in games, the more demanding ones like Oblivion, Crisis, ect.

Buy an Asus 7000 series form any shop in Unity Palza..very cheap..