Tribes 1 Legendz

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor $74.98 @ NCIX US
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard $72.99 @ NCIX US
Memory *Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $38.99 @ NCIX US
Storage Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $50.99 @ NCIX US
Video Card EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card $139.99 @ NCIX US
Case Rosewill REDBONE ATX Mid Tower Case -
Power Supply EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $34.99 @ NCIX US
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $442.93
Mail-in rebates -$30.00
Total $412.93
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-16 18:30 EST-0500

AMD CPU's are fine with nVidia GPU's.
The low end nVidia card is just fine for a power efficient heater for winter.
I am definitely waiting on AMDs Zen cpu's before doing a full new build, finally ditching my old intel.



just for fun I recently built a i7 desktop for under 200 bucks using used parts

GTX 680 $5
Intel Core i7-860 with Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P total of $5
Antec 1000W PSU $20
No shortcuts on ram, 1600mhz corsair 2x4gb $69
Coolmaster wave master Aluminum case $20
2TB HDD $50
$5 Sata DVD drive

$174 at the end of the day.

Everything bought at the local tip shop cept the ram.

When I was in college, I bought the cheapest computer parts I could find. AMD and ATI were the cheapest at the time, and I came to realize they were cheaper for a reason.

Now, I splurge for Intel and nVidia.

Also, HDD's are yesteryear's technology. You'll be amazed at the difference if you boot from and store your games on an SSD, instead.

In Tribes, alone, you'll notice a difference simply when it needs to read/write to a file. Kigen's mod used to log every time someone failed to deploy a builder beacon because he thought there might be some kind of cheating going on there. So if you got in builder armor and stared at the sky, then spammed "b", the whole server would lag out. If he had hosted it with an SSD instead of an HDD, no one would have felt any lag from this. Likewise, recording stats or demos definitely slows down the game when running on an HDD, but not on an SSD. Windows boot time goes from minutes to milliseconds (with windows 8 or 10).

I dunno what kind of budget you're working with, but I highly recommend an SSD over an HDD.

You can still get a massive HDD if you want, but don't make it the boot drive.

Yeah, I have to agree with you Perr. I moved my games from an internal HD to an internal SD and speed wise, it has improved, but you can still get a decent SATA III HD to work well depending on what you do with it.

I guess it comes down to what's more important... Price/Gig or speed...

Personally, I chose both. My computer has a 128 GB SSD, and a 3 TB HDD. But I regret buying the HDD, because I've stopped hoarding data, and haven't stored a single file on the HDD, and haven't even come close to filling the SSD.

But if you're still pirating movies and shit, maybe you need more storage space than me... I dunno.

I'm working with a 500 dollar budget right now. Just looking for something to play my games

Im rocking my intel i5

Im kind of new to this so I just need some advice what do u guys think I should do with that budget

Increase it.

Or, you could probably buy a used PC...

Take this ad for example: https://houston.craigslist.org/sys/5418751829.html

No price mentioned. Probably selling their world of aircraft addicted son's porn machine for bottom dollar.

I bought a surface pro 2 for $275 from some college kid who probably thought he was gonna get enough Christmas money to buy a surface pro 4.

Actually, judging by his attire, and the pre-installed software, he was probably planning to buy a Mac book or an ipad.

Ok I will wait then for future reference what is a good ball park range of how much i would need to build a nice computer