I'll just interject that I got a laptop that outperforms that in every way but the CPU for 900 bucks.
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Iam more curious about some of the quoted figures.
Who told you the CPU was rated at 5.874Ghz? and where the hell did they get that figure from?
Who chose 3.0Gig of Ram? If that's 3 x 1 gig sticks then you're actually gonna be causing potential bottlenecks between the CPU and the RAM since the board won't be operating in dual channel mode. You either need to dump one of the sticks or get yourself a 4th 1 gig stick and put that in.
*cough* yeah you do *cough* If all you used to is onboard you'll never need it but once you have a dedicated soundcard, even with a pretty average set of ear phones / speakers you WILL notice the difference. A few months ago I got my Maximus 3 mobo which came with it's own dedicated sound card, thought I would give that a try and maybe sell my Asus Xonar DX boy what a mistake that was, removed the card that came with the board within 3 days and stuck the Xonar DX back in.
As for getting done, well unless anyone who has replied actually lives in Mexico it is kinda hard to judge weather you got your monies worth, for sure who ever has recommended the specs has tried to do you by suggesting the spec is better than it actually is and of course if it was built for you then yeah you will of course get less for your money because you're having to pay someone out of the cash that would otherwise go towards your hardware.
Finally as for the 9800 GT vs 9800GTX in the 3D Mark benchmarks you'll get a difference of about 700 points or to put it another way, not much difference in the real world between them.
You got pretty screwed on price for that spec of a computer.
Have no idea what 1K in Dollars is(and I can't be assed to find out)but I know you could've bought the parts and BUILT it for cheaper than you paid them to do it.
Have no idea what 1K in Dollars is(and I can't be assed to find out)but I know you could've bought the parts and BUILT it for cheaper than you paid them to do it.
yes... i ordered some figurines that are impossible to get here in MX, i tracked the package up to customs, where they inspected it and after that it just stayed there, then i called for customer support and they told me that the package already arrived destination, when i looked again it said delivered, called again, they said the same the sender didn´t wanted to get involved, teh packing service was oblivious and customs didnt even bottered to try to give an explanation, i swear the guy said "well... i´m sorry, but it looks as thought someone stole your package, my apologies, there is nothing i can do"odubya23 said:Mexican customs will straight rip-off your stuff from the mail? That doesn't sound right, but I guess that's Mexico. Do you know how to build your own rig? You could save a ton of money by doing your own screwdriver work. Plus, then you can order components that come in small, innocuous packages.HentMas said:yes they do, but i dont plan on putting at risk a $1000 investment so that they can lose the pakage in customsodubya23 said:
customs suck here in MX
Where are the specs? You've only told what processor and graphics card you have. Not really anything to say about just that, it's the whole package that matters most.
Case, power supply, motherboard, memory, hard drives, mouse/keyboard... Basically what did you pay for.
The price and performance of any amount of RAM can vary huge amounts. Without elaborating on that, I still say 3 GB is rather small, especially if you have a x64 OS, then you really should have at least 4 GB. x86 OS's on the other hand cap the RAM to 3,25 GB.
9800 GT -> 9800 GTX, no sense in such a minor update.
I don't know the market prices in Mexico, but by mainly guessing as almost no specs where included, I'd say that's not too bad. But you always get the best deal if you (or someone with PC building knowledge) would picked all the parts and assembled it yourself. That's the only way you can get exactly what you want, nothing you don't need, no bottlenecks, not paying for anything unnecessary. But there aren't too many who do that and it does require a rather extended knowledge about computers, if you want to do it right. So in a summary: I guess you made a basic deal and I'm quite positive that the PC will meet your gaming needs quite well.
Case, power supply, motherboard, memory, hard drives, mouse/keyboard... Basically what did you pay for.
The price and performance of any amount of RAM can vary huge amounts. Without elaborating on that, I still say 3 GB is rather small, especially if you have a x64 OS, then you really should have at least 4 GB. x86 OS's on the other hand cap the RAM to 3,25 GB.
9800 GT -> 9800 GTX, no sense in such a minor update.
I don't know the market prices in Mexico, but by mainly guessing as almost no specs where included, I'd say that's not too bad. But you always get the best deal if you (or someone with PC building knowledge) would picked all the parts and assembled it yourself. That's the only way you can get exactly what you want, nothing you don't need, no bottlenecks, not paying for anything unnecessary. But there aren't too many who do that and it does require a rather extended knowledge about computers, if you want to do it right. So in a summary: I guess you made a basic deal and I'm quite positive that the PC will meet your gaming needs quite well.
No it's just that you see it quite a bit on Ebay, the seller will take the stated clock frequency then multiply it by the number of cores and try and claim that as the overall clockspeed of the chip. The thing is the overall value you have given is 5.874Ghz which doesn't divide by 4 to give 2.66Ghz and doesn't divide by 2 if you're using the assumption that it is essentially 2 dual cores stuck together.
The figure just looks like it is either the maximum frequency some overclocker has managed to get one of these chips up to which no one outside a hardcore OCer with some LN2 will ever reach or worst still it simply seems to have been made up.