Asus is the best IMO, I do aggre their support site blows and drivers take forever to down load, their ram also blows ass chunks.
Travis a nice case would be the coolmaster haf 922 or a thermaltake v9 both fit componets really nice and the air flow is amazing
Get one of the video cards I suggested
ok, how’s this? Any tweaks I should make ±$50?
Motherboard 210 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131790
Processor 300 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115071
Video Card 270 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161372
case 85 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133183
psu 70 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341022&cm_sp=Cat_Power_Supplies--Spotlight--17-341-022
Please explain why you want a intel over a amd? And you forgot hard drive and memory! Lol 8gigs of ddr3 is like $50 and look for a 7200rpm drive sata6 western digital black to be specific
Because I am a noob? haha.
RAMZ $80: CORSAIR XMS 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMX16GX3M2A1333C9 - Newegg.com
I already have a 500gb Samsung 7200rpm hard drive (pn HD502HJ) I bought for my old computer but it never read the hard drive(other computers did, so the drive is ok), so I am going to get a ssd for the OS.
Hard drive $115: Crucial M4 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT256M4SSD2 - Newegg.com
bump because I am impatient
Edit: going with 1600 instead of 1333 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347
edit edit: I looked up the drive I have (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-152-181&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=6#scrollFullInfo) and it has a lot of reviews, half of them speak of it dying quickly while the other half speak of them being the best ever. One guy even had a bunch in RAID 5 for a few years. haha. I guess I’ll just make sure to stay on top of my back ups…
if you have the money go with intel the 2600k to be exact. they are much more powerful. Also I’d stick with western digital on the hard drive. A western digital caviar black is the best option.
Edit: and I’d stay away from the fatality power supply only because you are paying extra to have his name on it…
Edit2: if you want, I have a 1000W PC power and cooling turbo cool I’d let go for about $120 and you’d pretty much never have to worry about a power supply again lol.
it’s 1000 watts continuous power, 1100 watts peak power (what most companies use to rate their power supplies), 72 amps on a single 12v rail, and has pretty much all the connectors you will ever need and then some.
I’m going to stick with the hard drive I already have and maybe upgrade that later. But I will take that PSU from you and I’ll get the i7 processor instead of the AMD one.
Here is a config I put together for my fiancees build. If you see stuff missing it’s because I already have it.
cherylscomputer by the_progrocker, on Flickr
sounds good, let me know when, and I’ll drop it off or you can pick it up.
Edit: you might want to wait until you get your case so we can test fit it because it’s longer than a normal power supply.
The PSU’s are overkill for both builds
No such thing…
quoted from the video cards specs
500 Watt or greater power supply with two 750W 6-pin PCI Express power connectos recommended
also a higher rated power supply is never a bad thing. If he decides down the road to add another video card he would need a better power supply.
Since everyone is chiming in I will say a i7 is over kill and why pay up the put for a 4 core CPU when you can get a 6 or 8 core cheaper that is just as fast? Personally I’m a amd and intel guy, yea intel has more of a umph but you really can see the difference at all only when crunching numbers
I disagree
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-2500k-and-core-i7-2600k-review/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/19
the phenom X6’s are in there too so you can see the difference. in everything from gaming to video encoding the i7 has a pretty clear advantage.
My point is your blowing $xxx on something that you can save a few bucks and get something almost as good, I’ve owned them all and reviews and stats really don’t mean anything to me. you need to test them out to your liking. Yea you can encode a video a few mins faster with a intel then a amd and by few I mean like 3 mins difference. Really it doesn’t matter that much. I just built my parents a i3 sandybridge machine and it’s way over kill for what they need and my mom runs a business etc on the computer really they see a slight difference going from a amd dual core to a intel dual core and really a difference was the speed and the amount of memory. All in all Travis was doing this on a budget this why I suggested getting a amd. And I mean comeon Intelsat beat chip retails at $1,000 that’s absurd, not to mention that they are still stuck on 4 cores (ht to add the 4 extra cores doesn’t count) at least amd is at 6 and 8 cores
As far as I am concerned, the “budget” part of this build went out the window when it topped $500. I’m really looking to build a legit desktop I can throw anything at for the next 4-5 years; huge assemblies in proE/solidworks, solving ansys analysis, etc, etc. While I am obviously not getting the best of the best I think I’ll have a super baller system when it’s all done. I really don’y know the actual differences between the different brands, I’m sure all this boils down to the same premise as a chevy/ford argument; both parties like their respective choices for whatever reason that isn’t significantly better than the other. I really don’t care if I get an AMD or Intel processor, I am just polling every source I have available to get the most knowledgeable answers. At this point I don’t mind spending the few extra hundred on key components if it will legitimately make a difference.
ok pre-order update: a few things are different due to being out of stock
getting the AMD processor,
this SSD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-139-599
this ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233203
this video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161381
the same case and motherboard as before, a cheap ASUS dvd drive
PSU from gl@re
Anything else I will need besides windows when it comes time to install? My dad is picking up the case, mobo, and processor for me for christmas so I wont have those till then and we will be putting it together then.
You need to get a amd mother board idk how I missed this…
ugh, cmon man. lemme see what I come up with, I gotta pull the trigger soon! any valid reasoning for amd vs intel?
anything else like small bits that aren’t usually included? sata cables, etc etc. I have a shit ton of screws lol
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or is it bc I have the amd processor I need an amd motherboard? that makes sense
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fuck, now the new video card I selected is sold out.