Posted: 2/21/2010 3:53:21 PM EDT
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Sorry I tried posting from my phone and it didn't want to cooperate. Here is what I want to build. Higher end gaming PC. dual core processor at a min. Quad if in the budget. i5 intel is what I'm looking at right now. but would love an i7 if in the price range. min 4gb of ram thinking 8 for an extra kick Windows 7 Need a smoking video card. sli or crossfire capable incase I upgrade later. Good number of expansion slots on the MB. Thinking of either dual 500gb or 1tb hard drive. Don't see the need for a SSD. Good sound card capable of driving a 5.1 surround sound system. Any suggestions well appreciated. Current computer fried today. When I built it it was bleeding edge. Lasted almost 5 years. Budget is sub 1k. Thanks! |
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1. What resolution will you be gaming ? If using a monitor with 1680x1050 resolution of less, you can still get great framerates with a less than extreme top-end graphics card.
2. You may want to rethink the possibility of an SSD for the boot and game install drive. Then use a traditional drive for data storage. The hard drive I/O speed is a bottleneck, you will see a significant increase in overall system responsiveness with an SSD. It will feel faster. 3. If you are comfortable with the idea of overclocking, get a slower quad-core and overclock the piss out of it, but use faster memory. If you don't want to overclock, use a faster factory clocked dual-core and standard speed memory. 4. For gaming, 4 gigs should be plenty of memory. If working with large video or photo files, more memory could possibly help. 5.ATI 5000 series graphics cards have HDMI-out, so you should not need a sound card if your system accepts the digital input. Will you be reusing your case or optical drives? |
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I built my last couple of systems. I was finally in need of a new one and started looking around figuring out how much it was going to cost me to build. I finally settled on this
Dell Studio XPS -Best Buy I couldn't build a system with comparable components for cheaper. It was nice to just come home open the box up and be up and running within a few minutes. Intel i7-860 8 gigs DDR3 memory 1 Terabyte HD ATI 5770 gpu Im sure I will probably have to upgrade the power supply sooner or later but other than that it seems to be good to go. It's just north of your $1k budget. |
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If you're going for speed, use a Velociraptor for your primary drive, and use the big drive for data storage. But your budget is going to be pretty taxed as it is, with what you're asking for.
Get an Enermax power supply instead of the one you posted. I could not even count how many I've installed over the last five years, and have had only *one* fail. I have one rated for 300W, in a machine that pulls 270 watts from the wall under load... and that powsup has been running in it for years. Also, you will NOT need a 600-watt power supply if you buy a quality power supply. |
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............................ Thinking of either dual 500gb or 1tb hard drive. Don't see the need for a SSD. ........................ A 3GHz quad core with DDR3 ram and a single 7200rpm drive is like a 12,000 hp engine dragging a 7200 pound boat anchor through the mud. A system isn't any faster than it's slowest part. I would think you would want RAID 0 at the very least or is that what you meant by "dual".? |