Need Opinions about first build computer!?
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pretty good set up...
first of all i must say well done thats gona be a nice set up good choce going for sli, intel and ocz. I would thing about doing watercooling so you can do some good overclocking. I would go the ebuyer to find a good sli graphics card i remember seeing a good asus one there. Good luck on your build
One thing I would change is get a serial ATA hard drive (SATA), for faster data transfer.
acording to Maximum PC if ur tryn to make a NEXT_GEN gaming pc go with BFG-GeForce 8800GTS its $450 or if its a NORMAL PC go to www.newegg.com and ull find video card from $74 and higher ... it all come down to what is ur main use for the PC then u can factor in the VIDEO CARD.
Sounds good to me -- I didn't look up all the parts, but just make sure you've double-checked your compatibility. At first glance nothing sticks out. Does that motherboard have on-board video? I would assume it does since you're not getting a video card yet, just thought I'd ask.
The only thing I would remind you is not to forget all the little things... plenty of cooling fans, your CPU fan, hard drive fan, a fan that will blow on your memory, any additional cables you may need, GOOD thermal grease (please don't use the cheap stuff on a processor that expensive!). With that much power and speed you need as much cooling as you can possibly get in there. The most recent one I built needed MUCH more cooling than I had anticipated and I was afraid to even turn it on until I put another $50 worth of cooling into it that I had originally.
And most importantly -- have fun!
I'm an amateur computer builder myself, who has built several computers. One thing I noticed was you are using the 680i motherboard (kind of expensive, and really built for dual graphics cards). Now, I don't know what you are looking for in your new computer. but you may be able to save some money, with regard to the motherboard, and processor, by downgrading a bit.
If you can, upgrade the hard drive to SATA-300 at least. You'll definently notice a performace gain here.
It's all about balance. If you have a high end motherboard and processor, everything else must be high end (like the hard drive), or else it will just make everything else slower.
Sorry pal, you messed up.
For $1,200 you could have a baller a_ _ quad-core with an 8800gts 640mb ! Crysis, Alan Wake, and lots of upcoming games are multi-core threaded, taking full advantage of quads.
Off the top of my head, these are the prices or close to from newegg, zipzoom, etc.:
$275-299 - Q6600 quad (may flucuate as price dropped from $500 to $299 on the 22nd, it will stabilize at less than $300 in a week or so as it's popped up around the web at $275)
$350 - Nivida 8800gts 640mb
$80 - 2 x 1gb sticks DDR2 (fast RAM barely matters with Core 2's, especially when overclocking)
$90 - Seagate 16mb cache 320gb SATA 7200rpm drive
$120 - Gigabyte P35 motherboard
$32 - Sony Optiarc DVD burner
$110 - Lian Li brushed aluminum case...classy
http://www.lian-li.com/product/product06...
$100 - Your choice power supply 500watt+ - SeaSonic, Silverstone, PC Power&Cooling, FSP, etc.
Right at $1,200. It's a VERY good time to build a new PC.
Next time, check out
http://anandtech.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/us/...
and their forums. Not AnswersRoom.com, where 99% of the users have a 2-year old Dell or Compaq and think a 512mb DDR2 7600gs is better than a 256mb DDR3 7600gt.
I personally like AMD processors, I would get a AMD Athlon X2 6000+ at 3.0Ghz. If you do this though i would get a AMD compatible motherboard. Good - Luck.
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