C2D System $1200 - Final Thoughts

[airrob]

Alright, after much tweaking and deliberation, I've come up with this for my roommate:

https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wi...cWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=3406411

He does not want or need more hard drive space. Besides that, unless you guys think anything should be changed, he's going to order this weekend.

 

[lobbyone]

Is it a good idea to be using that PSU for such a power hungry video card? How about adding a more "safe-minded" PSU like Seasonic/FSP/PC&P?
Good build BTW...drooool

 

[pkme2]

Yea, the PSU needs changing, but the rest is great.

 

[jhill1]

it all looks good to me, i got the same vid card but i got the truepower 550w just to be safe, although i think that the 450w will do just fine. and are you sure that an 80gig hdd will cover it all?

edit: whoops didnt see the second part of the message, forget the hdd part

 

[50cent1228]

looks good

 

[pushVTEC]

I heard that OCZ ram is hit and miss with the ds3 board, I got corsair xms2

 

[StevenNevets]

I'd consider changing the case, psu, and ram

Everything else looks great, would recomend half of those items myself

 

[dBTelos]

Yea, just skip on that PSU. Corsair HX520W if you are going to do Crossfire. 460W Enhance ENP or Masscool Nextherm if not.

 

[gramboh]

Why an 80GB 7200.9? If he is going to be playing games and have any amount of media (MP3/video/movie and demos etc) on his PC, 80GB isn't going to last. Add another $40 and get the 7200.10 320GB 16MB cache SATA-2. Not only is it 4 times as big for less than twice the cash ($40 is nothing anyway in a $1200 budget) but the 7200.10 is significantly faster than the 7200.9 for load times and transfers.

 

[Skyguy]

Definitely go with the bigger hard drive....not much more $$ when you look at total system cost.

Case is fine, but PSU is so-so.

 

[acegazda]

Enhance 5140gh FTW! Will be more than enough to power that rig.
There was some really... really cheap gskill ddr2-800 RAM that went OOS yesterday, like $150 for 2gb.
There is a new foxconn 965p board worth checking out too...