Good place to buy <$1000 gaming computer in Ottawa?

[mookieflookie]

Any recommendations on where to buy?

any recommendations on what to buy?

thanks

That's <$1000 without the monitor

[goofball]

RB Computing is good. Never had a problem with them.

"What to buy" depends on what you do with your PC. And do you need everything, OS/monitor included?

[mookieflookie]

mostly playing nba live 2006, a few other games, watching movies, tv shows, downloading torrents, surfing the internet...

looking for system with 5.1 ch surround

will be using with 17 inch or 19 inch LCD monitor w/solid refresh rate

i dont think i need the OS...if i have a copy of windows XP it shouldn't be hard to get it on there right?

[goofball]

So you need a TV-Tuner as well?

For video card, I don't recommend going with less than an X700 Pro or X800GT. That will be ~$200.

An Athlon64 3000+ is roughly around $149 (Pricematch with Network Supply)
Asus A8N-E is $134

17/19" LCD, pick up on boxing day sale. You won't get a better price than what is out there now. You'll pay approx $300-400 or so.

To be honest, OEM Express has a good deal on hard drives. 200GB Maxtor SATA with 16MB cache is $99. 250GB is $129.

Even their memory is not bad. 512MB for $49.99

You should be able to get RB Computing to pricematch with most of these items anyways, i'm just using OEM Express for reference.

[vric]

So you want a gamer computer, with great video card, tv-tuner, lcd monitor and good 5.1 speakers for less than 1000$ ?

good luck

[midnightskulker]

Another vote for RBC. Best costumer service, and they'll price match almost anyone.

[balou911]

check out what ive got.

[chicken_little]

will be using with 17 inch or 19 inch LCD monitor w/solid refresh rate

Go for 19 inch. The prices are reasonable now. Who wouldn't want an extra 2 inches?

[cmge]

pccyber has better prices most of the time..

or just but them used here... there are some ottawa RFD'rs

[oceans_end]

do you guys know who have the best prices in ottawa for averatec laptops or even have them on for display? BB/staples/FS dont even have them.... looking for a 3200 series for school in Jan, if i still cant find a local i will just order from the website..

thx