I have a friend ask me to build a gaming rig for him and im not really sure which part to choose.The budget is 3k.

What game does he play? DOTA?

Erm...not only DotA but it must be a rig that can take latest games.

Haha, DOTA

Play DOTA with onboard graphics only. hehe.

TS, visit goldfries.com la.

Q6600 - Rm920
Gigabyte P35-DS3 - Rm380
8800GT - Rm850
2X 1GB DDR2 667 RAM - RM140
Silver Stone ST50F - Rm300
250GB SATA HDD - Rm230
LG DVD-RW - Rm90
Casing Rm100
Rm3010.

need LCd or not???

Nice budget choice, I should say.

uhm..that spec is for CPU only...i mean the unit.

but ts friend need monitor and bla bla, i think need to choose amd for lower cost

Maybe dual core is a better choice instead of quad core. 19" widescreen instead of 22".

This post has been edited by mikelee: Jan 6 2008, 03:31 PM

processor: AM2 athlon X2 400+ RM215
RAM: kingston PC5400 DDR2 667 X2 RM130
HDD: seagate SATA 200GB RM205
motherboard: Biostar T690G RM 265
graphic card: XFX 8800GT 512MB DDR3 RM850
power supply: ST506F 560W RM350

total price: RM2015

spend the other for casing and also LCD

agree with this....lcd get samsung or lg ....around rm700 ...casing ?coolermaster centurion

i heard from LYN that gt 1 samsung monitor r quite nice, forget about wat name already, but i think is samsung 226bw or somethings like that

power supply : i think 500w cukup la.... ST506F

about the proc, its bottleneck if wan to play supreme commander........

oc a bit loh..

my brief spec.. made 1 similar spec accept 8600GT, for my cousin with Rm2.5k budget using Kuching price~

X2 5200+ - RM420
Abit AN52S or Asus M2A-VM - RM250
GeForce 8800GT - RM850
2GB DDR2 667 - RM140
320GB SATA HDD - RM260
DVD Supermulti - RM90
BenQ 19" Wide LCD - RM570

Total - RM2580

Balance of RM420... to buy casing, speaker, and PSU

*based on kuching pricelist~ can get better price at lowyat

for future upgrade....

E4500 RM4xx
Abit IP35E RM310
2xkingston 1GB DDR2 Ram RM130
Palit Geforce 8800GT 512MB RM830
LG/Sony SATA DVD-RW RM110
WD Cavier 320GB SATA RM265
Silverstone Strider 400W PSU RM170
RM200 for casing
Dell 19" LCD RM558 i think

RM3 out a little

Thanks,this one is pretty good.Could you recommend me a good SLi or Crossfire motherboard?It could be good if he want to upgrade GC in the future by adding another GC.

Isnt 2GB RAM is a bit too little for these days?

He just need a CPU with a DVD-RW drive.Monitor and the rest got adi.

Thanks a lot for those who have contribute.

I was thinking of getting E6750 for processor since E6850 and Q6600 cost a bomb.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jan 7 2008, 11:15 AM