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1200 bucks to spend around my 3930k I already have

AustinInDallas

AustinInDallas

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Friend of mine has a i7 3930k and wants to build around it. Main purpose will be gaming. No video editing or anything of the sort

I have a case, (corsair 600t), cpu cooler (h100), and a i7 3930k.

I have 1200 to spend on:
mobo
ram
gpu
psu
ssd
hd
dvd drive(if budget is too tight i might have an old one somewhere)


And anything else i might need. I have monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse etc.

edit: I do have very close access to a frys, microcenter, and tigerdirect if there are any great deals right now
 
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my rough draft:
ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

EVGA 02G-P4-2680-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular High Performance Power Supply

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9Q-16GBRL

ram I would definitely like a little advice on
 
It would help if you could answer [thread=80121]some questions[/thread]. Like what you want to do with this machine.

It's hard to go wrong on RAM with Intel these days. Just make sure it's 1.5V or less.

SSDs on the other hand...get either a Crucial M4 or a Samsung 830. Some of the larger sizes may have good deals on them too.
 
Well without knowing I'd say you were building a gaming rig. The EVGA 670 FTW is clocked to stock 680 clocks and afaik is around 100$ less.

If you intend on playing first person shooters I'd say go with a 120Hz monitor for the smoothness, not the 3d feature. I know you said you have a monitor but you didn't say what particular monitor or features it has.

The Seasonic X 650 would suit you fine in a single GPU solution with a little overclocking on the side 😉 ..last i seen it was around 139$ at New Egg.
 
Ken g6 said:
It would help if you could answer [thread=80121]some questions[/thread]. Like what you want to do with this machine.

It's hard to go wrong on RAM with Intel these days. Just make sure it's 1.5V or less.

SSDs on the other hand...get either a Crucial M4 or a Samsung 830. Some of the larger sizes may have good deals on them too.
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Sorry. Friend of mine got a i7 3930k from the intel retail edge deal and wants to build around it.
He is mostly just going to use it for gaming and normal everyday use. And yes I tried to talk him into selling it and using a reguar i7 or 2500k or anything. He is dead-set on using THAT processor
 
BTRY B 529th FA BN said:
Well without knowing I'd say you were building a gaming rig. The EVGA 670 FTW is clocked to stock 680 clocks and afaik is around 100$ less.

If you intend on playing first person shooters I'd say go with a 120Hz monitor for the smoothness, not the 3d feature. I know you said you have a monitor but you didn't say what particular monitor or features it has.

The Seasonic X 650 would suit you fine in a single GPU solution with a little overclocking on the side 😉 ..last i seen it was around 139$ at New Egg.
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is the 200 more cores not really help that much?
also the monitor is not 120hz
 
FrysAssociate said:
Sorry. Friend of mine got a i7 3930k from the intel retail edge deal and wants to build around it.
He is mostly just going to use it for gaming and normal everyday use. And yes I tried to talk him into selling it and using a reguar i7 or 2500k or anything. He is dead-set on using THAT processor
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That's silly, he could get GTX 670 SLI with the proceeds which would make much more of a difference in gaming. If your friend is that immune to logic, I would be very careful about building a rig for him. You never know what (other) crazy requests might pop up.

Anyway:
- Mobo: Good choice
- GPU: Not worth it, get a multi-fan GTX 670 instead.
- SSD : Fast but questionable reliability. The Samsung 830 is just as fast and rock solid for not much more money.
- HDD : Get whichever 1TB 7200RPM drive costs the least, there are only two real manufacturers these days and both are fine. This Seagate is $85 AP.
- PSU: You can do a lot better in terms of power output quality. This XFX 650W is top notch for $72 AP.
- RAM: Fine, but this Samsung clocks to the moon and probably costs about the same as what you'd be paying for the Ripjaws.
 
Ken g6 said:
That one took me a minute the first time I saw it too. Not CPU cores - GPU cores.

GeForce GTX 670: CUDA Cores: 1344
GeForce GTX 680: CUDA Cores: 1536
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To answer the question: no the extra CUDA cores don't end up helping that much.
 
FrysAssociate said:
So he just told me he has two dell 3007wfp
The gtx670 should be plenty to run two 2560X1600 30 inch monitors right?
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In normal desktop applications, yes. If he doesn't plan on gaming across both, it will be fine as well. If he wanted to do a 2-display Nvidia surround/Eyefinity setup (not recommended because of the bezels), he would definitely need SLI/Crossfire.
 
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