said by Anonymous_ :

if i sold my MB,CPU,Videocard and ram i can get like 400$

keep the case,XP Pro (Retail), hard drives and dvd burner
monitor kb ,mouse and PSU

said by JIGA :

I think the best advice for this guy is to just save your money.

Save up till you have roughly around 1k and built a nice system. All you need is the following:

Case
Power Supply
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
Video
Hard Drive
Sound Card - Optional, you can just use the onbaord sound, these days it is pretty damn good.

All of that can be done for under 1k if you spend your time doing product and pricing research.

And that's it. You already have a keyboard/mouse/monitor

said by longstreet :

I have a bit of perspective on this question, as I had single GPU setup and then went SLI.

(using 3dmark)

The numbers on my single stock 8800 GTX were around 11,000. qx6700, . . . raid 0, 4 gigs of ram, 5.9's across the board on vista performance benchmark.

With a second GTX added, with no overclocking whatsoever, I made about 14500.

With some tweaking (no voltages) and heavy duty air cooling, I could overclock the CPU and GPU and squeeze out almost 17,000.

Now, you can't play crysis with anything less than SLI, but the question is, do you want to shell out the extra cash to make 1 game playable? Actual game FPS improvements? At best perhaps 15% . . .the synthetic tests show a little more improvement.

Also consider that if you want to run high res, high detail . . you need more than just SLI . .but video memory.

Some of the more high end cards selling now have less memory than their predecessors and arguably there isn't as much of a performance increase at really high res, high detail games. If you really want to run Crysis at high res, the cost effective solution is go with the G80 GT.

It may be worth looking at slightly older cards with 768 meg of ram versus a newer card with 512 meg. But considering you can get a nearly identical setup in SLI for $240 with the 8800 GT . . .that really only suffers performance loss in low resolutions . . .I would say either spend more and get the GX2 or go with the 8800 GT SLI setup.

e.g. the 8800 gtx has 768 . . while the 9800 gtx and the 8800 GT both only have 512 . . .

»www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.p···umber=12

The GX2 blows both out of the water at 1 gig of ram each . .but it's also much more expensive.

But at $280 per card, that's almost a 600 dollar investment to play a game you play spending half that (2 8800 GT) at roughly $240

The inbetween, but somewhat harder to get choice would be the 8800 GTX which has 768 meg. I'm not sure on the pricing because most major retailers don't sell it . . could probably be gotten on the cheap from ebay for less than the GT sells new. That would ultimatly be your best bang for the buck, 8800GTX x2 from Ebay.

I'd go for identical cards . . . EVGA cards will sell for more because of the warranty. Ensure the seller hasn't messed with the voltages. These should be gotten anywhere from $100 - $170 if you look carefully.

(source : newegg searches for cheapest 9800 GX2 and 8800 GT)

said by Anonymous_ :

well i am on a very limited budget like 40$ for the video
i might beable to get an used 7800gtx for that price

said by Anonymous_ :

well i am on a very limited budget like 40$ for the video
i might beable to get an used 7800gtx for that price

said by Anonymous_ :

i would have to get neW:
HDD
PSU 1.2Kw
Case
Monitor (LED backlight) (but i can use the display i all ready have but it is kind of borken)
MB
RAM
keyborad
Mouse
blu-ray drive
dvd burner
speakers
video card
Laser printer
water cooling setup
(i have Retail OS so it can transfer to the new PC)

i might sell my old stuff to recover some of the cost

after i get the new stuff

said by jouno53 :

Why do you need that though? You can easily build a highly functional gaming system with most of those peripherals for way less than 3k.

You only need a 1.2kw PSU if you're going to be running 2+ GTX 280s.

said by Anonymous_ :

if i were to do a whole system upgrade it would cost me 3k
i do not have a job right now so no