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FPSLabs Home: ZeGermans Price Guides Update

By: Thomas Gribble - Published March 22, 2006 at 8:45 PM EST - Writer Archive

We've just finished revamping our price guides for the 5th time since their inception, and we've made quite an update!

We've managed to make the move to PCI-E and socket 939 on our AMD budget system. We've also gone almost exclusively dual-core in our guides, as well as including the new 7900 series from NVIDIA and the X1900 series from ATI. To get to the price guides, simply follow the links below.

Budget System ($500 to $700)
AMD Budget system

Entry Level Systems ($750 to $1100)
Intel Entry Level system
AMD Entry Level system

Mid-Range Systems ($1200 to $1500)
Intel Mid-Range system
AMD Mid-Range system

High-End Systems ($1900+)
Intel High-End system
AMD High-End system

Prices for all systems are taken from

User Comments

Nice price guides

*DEAD* EG.shaGuar : i didn't take ur last coconut

Excellent

Coverage Director - GotFrag.com

add x1800xt for overclocking ones, since the x1800xt seems to have a ton of headroom to oc it.

"Beware the military industrial complex" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sweet, these price guides are for sure going to help people that are wondering what to buy within their budget. Great Article!

This comment was edited at 11/05/2005 8:32 PM

very very nice as usual ze, but #3 he cant yet since its not available on any site :[ im sure as soon as it comes out he'll update them again

awesome !!!!

#3, I'm going to add the X1800XT as soon as it's out and crossfire-able... especially since the crossfire chipset is one of the best overclocking chipests ever.

also, we're straightening out a few of the links that accidentally have "http" doubled.

gj :D

links fixed. sry bout that.

gj.. :o im going to be buying an x850 xt pe for christmas.. $350

#11 or you can get a sapphire x800gto2 and unlock it to 16pipes and overclock it easy for a cheaper price.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp..

i'm surprised zegermans didn't put that card in it for entry level instead of x800xl :o

This comment was edited at 11/05/2005 10:10 PM

#skepticaL

sorry, I forgot about that part lol. :(

"Beware the military industrial complex" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

good stuff :)

12, I didn't consider any sort of oc'ing or softmodding on any of the systems besides the oc systems.

zegermans the link for the video card doesnt work

[b] irc://irc.gamesurge.net/h8gaming [/b]

there's a good chance that newegg has already stopped stocking that card. I'll try to update it this weekend.

also, all guides will be getting weekly facelifts. so keep checking back.

excellent read...im building a comp right now and i just found this article...im happy to find out that most of the parts im thinking about buying are on ZeGermans list.

very good read for future computer builders...it gives you a good idea of what upgrades are necessary and good ways to cut costs.

before you guys even start, I think the raptor is a bit to expensive right now, but the retail price will come down quickly. And I know the FX-60 is cheaper on zipzoomfly, but I wanted to keep the pricing on one site for simplicity's sake.

wooot. these are my favorite gotfrag hardware articles :)

c9 - enemy down

Likewise #20. Been grabbing some nice info lately, nice job.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Good to see you through in those presslers, but what about the cedar mills? Cant forget those. There are a lot of ways to go Intel with the release of Pressler and Cedar Mill. One flaw about this, I wouldnt call those good overclocking systems other than the Intels arent bad.

Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz + x1900XTX 512mb + Asus P5K-D + 2GB Ballistix D9GMH + Silverstone DA750

Nice read. I wish i had something like this when i undertook my first buildup from the stocker shocker that was my original box.

Are you in love with that Hi-Latant Kingston Value Junk, ZeGermans?

are you in love with overpriced low latency corsair junk?

can that case PSU handle that hardware on the AMD entry level system??

#26, probably. that power supply is running and AGP based system. the things we consider to be good about power supplies (+12v rail etc) are not really the same for AGP systems. the +3.3v rail turns into the more important one. I had my doubts about him using that psu for that system too, but i think it would probably work. probably.

FPSLabs - Managing Editor - http://www.fpslabs.com - #fpslabs @ gamesurge

zegermans..my god man

why couldnt you have put this out like 3 weeks ago

id have saved almost 200 dollars and most of this is my current specs anyway

#check-six

AMD > Intel

NewEgg > everyone else

Great Read.

This comment was edited at 01/17/2006 5:16 PM

Play Hard. Go Pro

good update. Prob could switch the psu on high end to pc power and cooling though, in place of the seasonic.

seasonic is just fine for that setup. PC P&C would only be needed in like an 8 HD, 4 graphics card setup. Those things are rediculously heavy duty.

#27, yeah ill just save to get a truepower 430 PSU to be safe :/

if u wanted high end though...

no, the overpriced corsair junk is crap too. OCZ, G.Skill, Crucial on the other hand are not.

Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz + x1900XTX 512mb + Asus P5K-D + 2GB Ballistix D9GMH + Silverstone DA750

yay updates

But why no ATi vid. cards? I would think X1800XT or X1900 would be > 7800GT or GTX.

x1900 just came out after I made these. I should update them. As far as the x1800 goes, it ties the 7800 in performance and is still more expensive.

nice guides!

e-fame +5

I was unimpressedat the fact that they look over the sound, and on the highend system they give it an "Audigy Value" :/

awesome, i'm expecting to purchase a new system soon so these'll come in handy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osru4ojkSw8

Good job ZeG, these prices guides are the standerd for my future purchases.

Good writeup. But the prices are different all over the world which isn't good ;/
Nice work though.

Still disagree on RAM choices other than that, it looks pretty good. Oh and wiht the high-end system why not just go for the 7900GTX right off the bat? It wuold be much easier to buy a second one later, rather than having to buy two of them to replace the x1900XTX.

Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz + x1900XTX 512mb + Asus P5K-D + 2GB Ballistix D9GMH + Silverstone DA750

Nice work guys!!!

Lee Chen | President | www.gotfrag.com | #gotfrag

#43, the upgrades are meant to be done when buying, not after buying. That means the system will have those upgrades at the time of purchase.

FPSLabs - Managing Editor - http://www.fpslabs.com - #fpslabs @ gamesurge

Ahhh ok, thanks for clearing that up.

Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz + x1900XTX 512mb + Asus P5K-D + 2GB Ballistix D9GMH + Silverstone DA750

Those parts do not give you the best bang for your buck.

Right now the x850xt is only like $170 at newegg, which will own those lower-mid range cards that gotfrag has.

Also, the Opteron series is superior to Athlon 64, due to better overclockability. You can easily get 400 mhz on stock voltages and stock heatsinks. 600-1ghz OC's if you get a better heatsink or water cooling (Opteron 144 or 165). They should have replaced every x2-64 with the opteron equivalent. It's basically a little more money for far more performance if you spend a few minutes in the bios.

Overall, I would have to say I am kind of dissapointed in this article.

the 7600GT is on par with the X850 in performance. It wipes the floor with the 6800GS, which is only a tick slower than the X850. Anyways, I gave it the nod over the X850 do to SM3 support, which these days is becoming more and more important. Also, what part of "overclocking isn't a consideration" is hard to comprehend?