1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
$2500 (with monitor)
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
United States
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
I'd like to build around the i7-920
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Just my keyboard, mouse, speakers, & old monitor as a second monitor
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
I have spent the last 3 days reading the threads on these forums to try to get the most out of my money
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Defaults.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Ready to click Buy on Newegg. I'm posting here because I hope one of you guys will be able to tell me that all the parts I came up with are compatible with each other. My biggest concern is that I need a special cooling setup, or that my PSU isn't sufficient (I checked a power supply calculator and it threw out 402W, but I'm not confident I plugged it all in correctly). I managed to put this together for $2200 on newegg and I'm happy with all the components, so I'm just hoping for a go ahead from you wizards that everything will work together.
Components-
COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Computer Case
CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX 620W Power Supply
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 295 017-P3-1293-AR Video Card w/ Backplate
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Extras-
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA Model GGC-H20L
BenQ G2400WD Black 24" 5ms, 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor
Software-
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Licensed for 3 PCs
Please recommend where I can best improve my performance if I were to throw in the extra $300 bucks I had budgeted for this, or if I'm ok to go and can spend the extra money on women and booze.
Gaming
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
$2500 (with monitor)
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
United States
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
I'd like to build around the i7-920
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Just my keyboard, mouse, speakers, & old monitor as a second monitor
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
I have spent the last 3 days reading the threads on these forums to try to get the most out of my money
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Defaults.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Ready to click Buy on Newegg. I'm posting here because I hope one of you guys will be able to tell me that all the parts I came up with are compatible with each other. My biggest concern is that I need a special cooling setup, or that my PSU isn't sufficient (I checked a power supply calculator and it threw out 402W, but I'm not confident I plugged it all in correctly). I managed to put this together for $2200 on newegg and I'm happy with all the components, so I'm just hoping for a go ahead from you wizards that everything will work together.
Components-
COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Computer Case
CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX 620W Power Supply
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 295 017-P3-1293-AR Video Card w/ Backplate
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Extras-
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA Model GGC-H20L
BenQ G2400WD Black 24" 5ms, 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor
Software-
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Licensed for 3 PCs
Please recommend where I can best improve my performance if I were to throw in the extra $300 bucks I had budgeted for this, or if I'm ok to go and can spend the extra money on women and booze.
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