PC Buying Guide - August 2008

Lol, who'd go Nehalem by September or even October;

Perhaps by the year end perhaps a couple of them; lets see;

Nopes, its very tempting

Cheapest Nehalem @ 2.66G is 40% faster than current yorkfield Q9450. Priced @ 266$

Motherboards will be equivalently priced to todays P45s due to MC located off the motherboard. 200-250$ (Depends on manufacturer)

DDR3 is getting cheaper day by day, 3X1GB triple channel w'd be fetched @ 125$ hopefully in Sep-Oct.

Good Guide Dude...You are serving people at free of cost with Great effort and precious time.

The Q6600 is still 9.4k even after the price cut?

Wonderful guide buddy..
Don't worry about Nehalem, i'll help.
kidng

fantastic dude, keep the good work up next month as well

Just went to NP today and your prices seem to be a lil off spcly in the CPUs...

2160 - 2800
2180 - 3000
7200 - 4900

PSU CM 500 2400
PSU CM 600 2800

Plus no availability of 5200. I also stronlgy recommend you start recommending NZXT cabinets. Much more visually appealing than CM 330 and at a cheaper price point!

which nzxt are you talking about?

afaik the cheapest one comes for around 3k. also the build quality on them aint exactly the best. and while CM are no out of the world cabbys they are surely a notch or two above the flimsy NZXTs..

I am talking about NZXT Alpha begins at 2750 Rs... Its build quality is quite good for the price and million times better than Bijlis and the likes. You can read reviews on NZXT Lexa and likes on newegg, they are quite highly rated!

have personally seen and felt the nzxts in a store,, side by side with cm cabbys,

frankly i was not impressed.. but then that might just be me..
they have good reivews accepted; but i still feel that the cm330 for a thousand bucks less is a much better deal. and pls dont compare the cm cabbys with the bijlis nd ghoda gadis. that is an altogether flawed comparison.

you just need to lift up the alpha and the cm330 in turns to figure out what i mean. the panels nd stuff on the alpha are just way too flimsy.

Good work sidhu 22.

sidhu yaar....you dont like AMD Rigs they are cheap n good also.Sempron LE 1200+ASUS M2A MX cost near about 3.5k only.Also Athlon X2 4400+( I am not sure may be its 4600+) with ASUS M2A MX cost 4700 only.

Buddy where should I fit them ?? Celeron 420 has very low TDP, and if need arises OCs above 3GHz, clock to clock it will be faster than AMD due to "Core" architecture.

27k rig is AMD na ??

ASUS M2A MX is 690V chipset mobo, integrated HD3200 graphics core of the 780G chipset is 2.4 times as fast as the 690G. Its better if not buying dedicated GPU.

Theek hai yaar. Just posted above coz purchased LE1200 with that board today.Celeron 420 not available here in our city They make fun on demanding celeron.

good list.......but i missed ups's in every list....