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Old 11-26-2012, 08:24 PM   #26
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I now agree with MFENN's suggestion to just order the parts when I could have.

Thinking that Black Friday or Cyber Monday would be a great time to pick up the parts has left several items as Out of Stock. Ugh... Maybe I can find a decent balance between Newegg and Amazon to get everything now.
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Old 02-21-2013, 11:48 PM   #27
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Got sidetracked on ordering my parts... I now need to order my parts in the next 24 - 48 hours. I do like MFENN's suggestions on the sticky. the Samsung 120GB SSD is OOS though

Am I good?

i5 3570K $215 AP
Biostar TZ77B + free 8GB RAM $100
Samsung 840 250GB $185
Reusing a Seagate 1TB
Toshiba 1TB $75
Lite-ON DVD Burner $18
I do have an Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU... maybe I need a 600 - 650W?
Corsair 200R $50 AR
Sapphire Radeon dual-fan 7850 2GB $185 AR
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Old 02-22-2013, 12:28 AM   #28
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No new PSU necessary, you'll be fine with the 500W Earthwatts.
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Old 02-22-2013, 10:39 PM   #29
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No new PSU necessary, you'll be fine with the 500W Earthwatts.
I appreciate the info... not that I would know what would happen, but I would have hated to underpower the components or over work the PSU.
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Old 02-23-2013, 12:06 AM   #30
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Got sidetracked on ordering my parts... I now need to order my parts in the next 24 - 48 hours. I do like MFENN's suggestions on the sticky. the Samsung 120GB SSD is OOS though

Am I good?

i5 3570K $215 AP
Biostar TZ77B + free 8GB RAM $100
Samsung 840 250GB $185
Reusing a Seagate 1TB
Toshiba 1TB $75
Lite-ON DVD Burner $18
I do have an Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU... maybe I need a 600 - 650W?
Corsair 200R $50 AR
Sapphire Radeon dual-fan 7850 2GB $185 AR
Looks good to me! You don't have to capitalize my name by the way, I'm not that important.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:27 PM   #31
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Parts Ordered tonight. I got the Corsair 300R case instead of the 200R and I did find the Samsung 120GB SSD on Amazon for $101, so I ordered it from there. I also happened to have $100 of Reward Points to use on Amazon so I'll consider that one a free item for the computer

I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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Old 02-24-2013, 04:18 PM   #32
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That sounds great! Post some pictures if you can.
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Old 03-02-2013, 10:40 PM   #33
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Rig built.. and it runs great!

The Corsair 300R case is huge... plenty of room, easy to work with, great for cable management. I'm not complaining as it works great,and looks great to me, but it is big

I am sold on SSD. The computer boots to the desktop in less than 5 seconds... and powers down just as quick. I will be swapping out the 1TB spin drive for more SSD drives when the $/GB gets a little better.

Haven't been able to test out the Graphics card yet on any games... I'll have Tomb Raider on Monday to mess around with.

Thank you all for your posts and comments. This computer will take care of me for a while.

I'll try to take some pics and post em tomorrow
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Great, glad you like it!
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