I asked about doing this many months ago, but was hit hard by life so had to lie low till now; I'd like to build myself a replacement to my Dell 8300 from 2003 (!) . I had upgraded it to an 128gb SSD with Win 7 Pro. I'm planning to get a new machine with no OS, and move this SSD to it, to end up with a SSD drive with the OS 'pre-installed', and use the other larger regular HDDs for data and stuff.
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PC will be used for : No gaming, but Adobe CS5, Lightroom and maybe Premiere too. And video conferencing like Skype. (I mention that because Skype video is a dog in my current m/c).
Budget : Self imposed; no dire need to skimp, but not gonna waste either.
Intend on using any current parts : 128gb SSD drive that already has windows 7 pro installed, and will move an existing 1TB HDD to join the new 1TB HDD I'll buy.
Overclocking : no.
What resolution : have a 19" LCD (1600x1200) that I might upgrade to larger.
WHEN do you plan to build it : immediately, unless I'm missing any great discount in the far horizon.
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I have the following in my shopping cart at Directron. Anything I could do better?
Black Cooler Master Storm Scout ATX Mid Tower ............................................ $67.99
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H (rev. 1.0) Socket H2 ATX Motherboard, Intel Z77 Chipset $119.99
Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz $209.99
Antec Basiq 550 Plus 550W ATX 12V v2.2 $63.98
Black Plextor PX-891SA SATA Internal 24X DVD Burner $29.99
XFX FX-777A-ZNF4 Radeon HD7770 $124.99
Seagate Barracuda 3.5in 1TB SATA 6Gb/s Internal Hard Drive $77.99
Kingwin All-In-1 Internal Card Reader / Writer. Model: KWCR-901 $4.99
Hauppauge 1196 WinTV-HVR-1250 PCI Express Hybrid Video Recorder/ TV Tuner, $61.99
Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600MHz (PC3-12800) $94.99
Net : $856
I like the case a lot, given its positive reviews on Amazon and TigerDirect, though it does not have a USB 3 at the front while the mobo does.
The only indulgence is that TV-Tuner, because I don't have any definite plans on how to use it, just vague ambitions. I might still kick it to the curb.
Questions I have are
a. While I listen to a lot of classical music et al, I still don't need a discrete sound card, do I? I'm told the cheap ones don't do any better than the inbuilt sound card, and I'm not spending $200 on any sound card.
b. The GPU spec says 550W, and the PSU I picked is listed 550W; do I need to play safe and pick 600W?
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PC will be used for : No gaming, but Adobe CS5, Lightroom and maybe Premiere too. And video conferencing like Skype. (I mention that because Skype video is a dog in my current m/c).
Budget : Self imposed; no dire need to skimp, but not gonna waste either.
Intend on using any current parts : 128gb SSD drive that already has windows 7 pro installed, and will move an existing 1TB HDD to join the new 1TB HDD I'll buy.
Overclocking : no.
What resolution : have a 19" LCD (1600x1200) that I might upgrade to larger.
WHEN do you plan to build it : immediately, unless I'm missing any great discount in the far horizon.
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I have the following in my shopping cart at Directron. Anything I could do better?
Black Cooler Master Storm Scout ATX Mid Tower ............................................ $67.99
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H (rev. 1.0) Socket H2 ATX Motherboard, Intel Z77 Chipset $119.99
Intel Core i5-3570 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz $209.99
Antec Basiq 550 Plus 550W ATX 12V v2.2 $63.98
Black Plextor PX-891SA SATA Internal 24X DVD Burner $29.99
XFX FX-777A-ZNF4 Radeon HD7770 $124.99
Seagate Barracuda 3.5in 1TB SATA 6Gb/s Internal Hard Drive $77.99
Kingwin All-In-1 Internal Card Reader / Writer. Model: KWCR-901 $4.99
Hauppauge 1196 WinTV-HVR-1250 PCI Express Hybrid Video Recorder/ TV Tuner, $61.99
Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600MHz (PC3-12800) $94.99
Net : $856
I like the case a lot, given its positive reviews on Amazon and TigerDirect, though it does not have a USB 3 at the front while the mobo does.
The only indulgence is that TV-Tuner, because I don't have any definite plans on how to use it, just vague ambitions. I might still kick it to the curb.
Questions I have are
a. While I listen to a lot of classical music et al, I still don't need a discrete sound card, do I? I'm told the cheap ones don't do any better than the inbuilt sound card, and I'm not spending $200 on any sound card.
b. The GPU spec says 550W, and the PSU I picked is listed 550W; do I need to play safe and pick 600W?