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Hello everyone, as you might guess, here is a confused guy about the computer specs.

 

I have read tons of pages here, jumped one tutorial to another, carefully looked for signatures of people, digged wiki pages, and beleive or not i have nothing!

 

I am already a linux mint user (an ubuntu derivative) for 3 years. I like terminal, bash stuff. And when i saw mac os x with terminal (!? weird yes i didnt know that), i was hypnotised :censored2:

 

Anyway, i would like to build a system that will be around 440-550$ (with no screen), and installation will not be a problem (if is it possible of course, here is a mac noob willing to learn, remember).

 

For motherboard i will buy something gigabyte DS3L or DS3R Rev. 2.1 i suppose. (?)

 

I need a moderate Graphic Card around 80-100$.

 

So could you pls suggest some MoBo+CPU+GraphicCard combaniton for me?

 

Thanks and sorry for english.

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Obviously you've read enough to have narrowed it down to Gigabyte, and certain models. (Exactly on the right track, by the way).

 

What's stopping you from proceeding?

 

Mobo choice is the most critical- once you've narrowed that down, you're 90% done. You've obviously done some research on this- just narrow down exactly which board you want to use, and what install method you want to try. (IE: a downloaded distro and/or retail OSX) Take your time on board choice- it's well worth it to know exactly the ins and outs of what you're getting.

 

Graphic card choice is also critical, but basically, it's hard to go wrong if you just pick a card that others are using successfully, and that meets your needs.

 

CPU choice- pretty easy from there. Again, base it off what others are already using and that works with your board choice.

 

A blind monkey could pick the rest of the components- it's pretty hard to screw up picking RAM, hard drives, optical drives and a case.

Get the iATKOS 10.5.5i disk, follow the guide in the news releases and updates section. You'll be able to update using the software updater which is a big plus.

Go with the DS3L *from what i hear it overclocks better*

Q6600 of course :D

Anything over 4gigs of memory is just to show off at this present time lol

You said 80-100 on the video? Get an 8600GT!

Thanks for inspring replies.

 

OK.. i gathered a spec.. and finalised like this:

 

Mobo---------GA-EP45-DS3L P45/ICH10

GPU----------MSI 9600GT OC GDDR3 512MB

RAM----------Corsair 2 GB (2x1) 1066Mhz DDR2 CL5 DHX PC2 8500 RAM x 2 (Total 4 GB)

CPU----------Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 Ghz 8 mb cache 1066 FSB

 

costs around 600$, sounds like expensive to me but it is ok.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for inspring replies.

 

OK.. i gathered a spec.. and finalised like this:

 

Mobo---------GA-EP45-DS3L P45/ICH10

GPU----------MSI 9600GT OC GDDR3 512MB

RAM----------Corsair 2 GB (2x1) 1066Mhz DDR2 CL5 DHX PC2 8500 RAM x 2 (Total 4 GB)

CPU----------Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 Ghz 8 mb cache 1066 FSB

 

costs around 600$, sounds like expensive to me but it is ok.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Looks good

Thanks for inspring replies.

 

OK.. i gathered a spec.. and finalised like this:

 

Mobo---------GA-EP45-DS3L P45/ICH10

GPU----------MSI 9600GT OC GDDR3 512MB

RAM----------Corsair 2 GB (2x1) 1066Mhz DDR2 CL5 DHX PC2 8500 RAM x 2 (Total 4 GB)

CPU----------Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 Ghz 8 mb cache 1066 FSB

 

costs around 600$, sounds like expensive to me but it is ok.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

i would suggest comparing against a 9800GT as well, as from what i've seen they can be obtained on sale for very cheap nowadays. newegg, like $90-100 after rebate w free shipping

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You have the same setup as I did, except I went with the EP45-UD3P, and like a previous poster said try to look at the 9800 GT, its what I have and this thing is a sure beast! Heating can be a problem, the quadcore tends to run around 58C without thermal compound. I put AS5 on it and now it runs around 43C normal, max of 72C at load. Make sure whatever case you have has a lot of good airflow and that your PSU can handle all your components.

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