AMD PC buyin Guide!!!

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Guys here are basic 2 rigs fer AMD ppl...
One's a Basic rig; I mean Value-fer-money n D other is a high end...

Basic Rig:

Proccy: Athlon 64 X2 4200+- 2.2GHz 1MB L2 cache- Rs. 5200

Mobo: Jetway-M2A692-GDG-[AMD 690G and SB600 Chipset]- Rs. 3400
OR
Asus-M2AVM-HDMI-[AMD 690G and SB600 Chipset]- Rs. 5100
OR
Asus-M2N MX-[NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and nForce 430 Chipset- Rs.3600
OR
Biostar TF7050-M2- Around Rs 5k...

RAM: Transcend/ Kingston DDR 2-1 GB 667 Mhz-Rs. 2000

HDD: Seagate-Sata 2 160 GB- Rs. 2350(Check out fer 7200.10 as well!!!)

Grafix: Onboard.

Optical Drive: Sony DRU-835A/DRU-170C/Lite-On LH-20A1P- Rs. 1800

Cabinet + SMPS: Zebronics/iBall with 400W PSU- b/w Rs. 1600-Rs. 2000

Speakers: Creative SBS 370/ Altec Lansing-I 121- Rs. 1250

Keyboard + Opti. Mouse Bundle- Logitech- Rs. 800

Monitor- Samsung CRT-17 '' Flat 798MB- Rs. 5600

UPS- PowerSafe 600VA- Rs. 1950/ APC 500VA- Rs. 2300

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Moder8ly high-end Rig:
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Proccy: Athlon 64 X2 2.6GHz 2MB L2 cache- Rs. 9500

Mobo: MSI K9N DIAMOND [NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Chipset]- Rs.11650
OR
Asus CROSSHAIR [NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Chipset]- Rs. 12900

RAM: Corsair Value Select DDR 2- 1 GBx2 667 Mhz- Rs. 4600

HDD: Seagate-Sata 2 250 GB- Rs. 3100 (Check out fer 7200.10 as well!!!)

Grafix: XFX 8800GTS 320MB- Rs. 17900
OR
XFX 8800GTS 640MB- Rs. 21000
or
Some second-hand card fer time being-< Rs. 2k (Get an 8800GTS/ GTX l8r)

Optical Drive: Sony DRU-835A/DRU-170C/Lite-On LH-20A1P- Rs. 1800

Cabinet: Zebronics (Antibiotic or whichever u like!!)/iBall- Rs. 2000

PSU: Coolermaster Xtremepwr 600W/ Pwrsfe 600W- Rs. 4000

Speakers: Creative Inspire 5200 5.1- Rs. 3950
OR
Logitech X530 5.1- Rs. 5600
OR
Altec Lansing APT 3-2.1- Rs. 2800

Keyboard + Opti. Mouse Bundle: Logitech- Rs. 800
OR
Logitech Wireless- Rs. 1550

Monitor- Samsung CRT-17 '' Flat 798MB- Rs. 5600
OR
Vlewsonic LCD- 19"(Lots of models inc. widescreens)- Rs. 11800

UPS- APC 650VA- Rs. 3100

No sound cards've been include coz all mobo's come with Realtek APU's which're quite good...

All the above options're strictly based on VFM...

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Just the thing I needed.....thanks mate..

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ashnik said:
Just the thing I needed.....thanks mate..

Welcome budd.. Pleased to help ya...

^^ Do you mean that 690G models wont support the phenoms and only 590 will do???

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Neither supports... Only AM2+ does...

well the Basic rig should contain the X2 4200+ processor, cause the price difference is only 1K & hugh performance gain,

lso in the moderate gaming rig the processor should have been a X2 5200 which costs around 9.5k,

BTw also add the new 7 series onboard mobo containing geforce 7050 gfx in your buying guide,
the model no. is Biostar TF7050-M2 the price will be simmilar to the 690g chipset baset mobo,

anyways , all in all a good post

@gannu_rox : Nice post dude.

But, avoid Sony drives for now coz they are either Samsung or NEC OEMs.

And get PowerSafe PSU's ....they're much better than Zeb...and are better performers!

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@saggy genius and samrulez---- Changes incorporated...

@samrulez- I personally use a Powersafe 600W PSU

As u'd mentioned its a good one indeed..

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which mobo 4 AMD offers best onboard graphics?
No overclocking, SLI etc.
JUst good display and sound so that graphics card can be bought later...

ashnik said:
which mobo 4 AMD offers best onboard graphics?
No overclocking, SLI etc.
JUst good display and sound so that graphics card can be bought later...

asus m2a-vm it gives the highest frame rates.. go get it

& their is another good or even better recommendation MSI K9AGM2-FIH..u can even go with this

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Dats rite...

Asus-M2AVM-HDMI-[AMD 690G and SB600 Chipset]- Rs. 5100

Prices shud be lesser than dis I've mentioned...

[M comin with an Intel buyin rig as well...

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