AyashiKaibutsu
Diamond Member
Sigh, I keep thinking I'm going to order something and then delaying. This time it's the real deal though going to order parts later today.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming (WoW for 90% of it, but I take breaks for fpses and such), mostly light encoding and other such things, highly value the computer feeling snappy
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread ~1000
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
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.
Nvidia because I'm willing to gamble that phsyx/cuda/opencl support will pay off eventually.
I've gotten it in my mind that g.skill and gigabyte are good and want to try them, but not really attached
WD never failed me.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Antec 1200 case, one of the random dvd drives around the house, 74 gig raptor, 250 gig harddrive
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yea I'm always browsing these forums just like getting extra attention : p
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
overclocking either as much as stock will allow or a slight voltage bump
8. What resolution YOU plan on gaming with.
13x7 chance of movin to 19x10.
9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Later today
HDD (storage): WD cavier green 1.5tb 110$
Just for storage purposes
Power Supply: Antec CPX 850 120$
kind of overpaying I think, but I want to be sure I can run the cables anyway I want, and I like the cooling setup it has.
HSF: CM Hyper 212 30$
Just wanted something a little better than stock and it's cheap
CPU/Video card combo: i7 860 / asus en9800gt 380 (20$ discount)
Just want a cheap video card until fermi is released and then I'll drop this one down to be a physx/opencl card between the discount and rebate it's only 70$. I can live playing medium settings in crysis for a few months. Also, WoW seems to favor nvidia by a wide margin. Really really, don't want to hear about how much I'm missing out not buying an 4670 or 4770 which seem to either a little cheaper or a little more expensive (didn't really look into comparisons between them and this to be honest though).
Motherboard/Ram combo: Gigabyte UD3R / G.Skill ripjaw 1866 ddr 9-9-9-24 210 (20$ discount)
The ram was 5$ cheaper than 1600 ram of the same branding, which has me a bit worried. Usually, I don't care about newegg reviews, but this stuff only has 2 and one is bad. The ones that are 5$ more have 7-7-7-24 timings and much better ratio of pos:neg reviews; don't know if I should just pay 5$ more for ram that seems a bit more likely to work without issue.
Harddrive: G2 intel 80Gb 270 (30$ rebate) from ZZF
Getting it from somewhere other than newegg since they're still gouging. My raptor has served me well for 5 years now as an OS drive and I really the quick feeling fast harddrives give a computer even if they don't improve fps so I think it's worth it to get the intel. Going to move my 74gig raptor to the new computer to install programs that don't fit on the intel (only part I've owned that might end up serving me for 7+ years!). If anyone knows a better place to order one than zipzoom I'd like to know about it.
shipping: 16$
Total: 1135$
Bing cashback (2%): 1112
after rebates(50$): 1062$
I'm pretty much set in what I'm planning to get, but figured I'd throw this out to see what people think.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming (WoW for 90% of it, but I take breaks for fpses and such), mostly light encoding and other such things, highly value the computer feeling snappy
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread ~1000
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
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.
Nvidia because I'm willing to gamble that phsyx/cuda/opencl support will pay off eventually.
I've gotten it in my mind that g.skill and gigabyte are good and want to try them, but not really attached
WD never failed me.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Antec 1200 case, one of the random dvd drives around the house, 74 gig raptor, 250 gig harddrive
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yea I'm always browsing these forums just like getting extra attention : p
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
overclocking either as much as stock will allow or a slight voltage bump
8. What resolution YOU plan on gaming with.
13x7 chance of movin to 19x10.
9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Later today
HDD (storage): WD cavier green 1.5tb 110$
Just for storage purposes
Power Supply: Antec CPX 850 120$
kind of overpaying I think, but I want to be sure I can run the cables anyway I want, and I like the cooling setup it has.
HSF: CM Hyper 212 30$
Just wanted something a little better than stock and it's cheap
CPU/Video card combo: i7 860 / asus en9800gt 380 (20$ discount)
Just want a cheap video card until fermi is released and then I'll drop this one down to be a physx/opencl card between the discount and rebate it's only 70$. I can live playing medium settings in crysis for a few months. Also, WoW seems to favor nvidia by a wide margin. Really really, don't want to hear about how much I'm missing out not buying an 4670 or 4770 which seem to either a little cheaper or a little more expensive (didn't really look into comparisons between them and this to be honest though).
Motherboard/Ram combo: Gigabyte UD3R / G.Skill ripjaw 1866 ddr 9-9-9-24 210 (20$ discount)
The ram was 5$ cheaper than 1600 ram of the same branding, which has me a bit worried. Usually, I don't care about newegg reviews, but this stuff only has 2 and one is bad. The ones that are 5$ more have 7-7-7-24 timings and much better ratio of pos:neg reviews; don't know if I should just pay 5$ more for ram that seems a bit more likely to work without issue.
Harddrive: G2 intel 80Gb 270 (30$ rebate) from ZZF
Getting it from somewhere other than newegg since they're still gouging. My raptor has served me well for 5 years now as an OS drive and I really the quick feeling fast harddrives give a computer even if they don't improve fps so I think it's worth it to get the intel. Going to move my 74gig raptor to the new computer to install programs that don't fit on the intel (only part I've owned that might end up serving me for 7+ years!). If anyone knows a better place to order one than zipzoom I'd like to know about it.
shipping: 16$
Total: 1135$
Bing cashback (2%): 1112
after rebates(50$): 1062$
I'm pretty much set in what I'm planning to get, but figured I'd throw this out to see what people think.
