Another New PC thread!

Well, I've been working my ass off for three months and have managed to save a little dough - Now I plan to blow some on a new gaming PC to make me feel better about the whole working thing!

 

Here's what I'm looking at:

https://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/MySavedWi...spx?ID=15771568

(Hoping that will work, because I don't see how to make a "public wish list"!)

 

Summary:

 

$59 - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Case

 

$115 - CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply (half price!)

 

$339 - ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

$140 - CORSAIR XMS3 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1333C9

 

$310 - Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920

 

$53 - COOLER MASTER Intel Core i7 compatible Hyper N 520 RR-920-N520-GP 92mm Sleeve CPU Cooler

 

$500 - XFX GX295NHWFC GeForce GTX 295 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

 

$79 - Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

 

$32 - Sony Optiarc 24X DVD/CD Rewritable Drive Black SATA Model AD-7240S-0B

 

$123 - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders

 

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Comments? Am I overspending on the CPU and video card? That's the only thing I'm really wavering on... I'm not a bleeding edge kind of gamer - I just want a rig that will do away with this rediculous 2 fps in WoW raids bs forever, be able to run SC2, Supreme Commander (the first game that really bogged down my GeForce 6600 / AMD Athlon 2500+ / 1 Mb RAM system) and anything else I'm apt to be playing for the next couple of years at least, and never bog down. So maybe it would make more sense for me to cut about half the cost out of this system and get like a GeForce 8800 GT / AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3 GHz box, and be prepared to upgrade to these components when they've come way down in price. But there's something to be said for, you know, not needing to upgrade!

 

Am I forgetting anything silly that I'm going to need? (Besides the $2.50 SATA cable for the HDD) It's been a while since I built a PC from scratch - I'm kindof looking forward to it!

 

Prices are in $Can (but our dollars are within 10% of par these days), from Newegg.ca.

I doubt newegg.com would ship to Canada, since they have the local site, and this saves some border hassle and gains some free shipping.

Total cost including Windows 7 is about Can$1600... Right around $2000 after a little shipping and a lot of taxes - lol

Edited October 29, 2009 by Fatherpeteus

link doesnt work, the whole "https://secure" thing is kind of gonna prevent that.

 

if you have a newegg account you can search for public wish lists if you give us what you named it.

 

looks good, you should get all necessary cabling included in packaging.

123 on windows? What a waste.

father you need to enroll in a community college... cuz you can get windows for 99 bucks instead!

$29 ^

 

$99 is the cost of the OEM.

link doesnt work, the whole "https://secure" thing is kind of gonna prevent that.

 

if you have a newegg account you can search for public wish lists if you give us what you named it.

 

looks good, you should get all necessary cabling included in packaging.

I just set it to share, although it doesn't show up on the list just yet:

http://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/PublicWishLists.aspx - Look for "Fatherpeteus" Oct 29

 

Annoyingly, my video card just sold out!

Edited October 29, 2009 by Fatherpeteus

It takes the better part of a day for a list to go public for whatever reason. I'll check it when it's public

Just looking over the parts you posted, I have that system board, I love it. You might want to look at getting a Blu-ray drive for your build, it's a little more, like $129 for an LG I think, but it's worth it! Also, if you can find the new ones, look at Intel solid state drives, Windows 7 has optimized SSD support, and it's huge!

Sounds BEASTLY. As far as needing to upgrade any time soon (eg. the next two years) I HIGHLY DOUBT you would need to upgrade anything in that rig.

 

I'm running a XFX 9800 GTX 512 mb GPU/AM2 dual core athalon 2.8/XFX geforce 8200 MoBo/4gb(3 detected) RAM windows XP 32bit, and I've been wanting to upgrade it for months now, def. dont go for a 8800 video card, while it will be a night and day upgrade from your current rig, you should really go for the higher end stiff at this point. ... While this new rig won't be ***cutting edge*** it's damn close, and you will be extatic with it's performance. I wish your list was in my computer case

 

Like Shad said, def. look at the solid state drive options since 7 is optimized for it. SSD technology is so awesome if the OS uses it correctly.

 

Yeah, I've looked into SSD... I'm not sold on the value for money yet though. They're still mighty expensive, and even on my old clunker HDD wait times aren't (apparently) much of an issue.

 

Is anyone playing with SSDs personally, whether on your own system or something at work? What do you have on there, pretty much the OS, with a regular HDD holding all the apps and data? I suppose having the swap file on SSD could make a big difference on it's own... Any experiences?

Getting one big enough to hold all of your apps (maybe with data on a platter drive) you're looking at $400-600... Meh. I can wait a couple of years for that to come down to $100

I hope you plan on doing a LOT more than playing WOW with that.

Yeah, I've looked into SSD... I'm not sold on the value for money yet though. They're still mighty expensive, and even on my old clunker HDD wait times aren't (apparently) much of an issue.

 

Is anyone playing with SSDs personally, whether on your own system or something at work? What do you have on there, pretty much the OS, with a regular HDD holding all the apps and data? I suppose having the swap file on SSD could make a big difference on it's own... Any experiences?

Getting one big enough to hold all of your apps (maybe with data on a platter drive) you're looking at $400-600... Meh. I can wait a couple of years for that to come down to $100

 

 

I have the 80GB intel XM-25 (I think thats it) I have 64 bit vista ultimate installed and tweaked (vista you had to turn off lots of stuff that made SSD unhappy) and the boot up time is amazing, anything installed onto that drive is very fast. That drive has the OS, WoW, and a few other Apps I use a lot. I have a 1TB drive for storage, and another 750GB drive for program/game installs. I love it personally I hear with Windows 7 it's even better because it has code to optimize for SSD. The only thing to keep in mind is that they are not full sized drives, so buy a cheap metal mounting bracket to mound laptop size drives in a full size bay.

Or you could be a pimp and pirate windows 7 and save yourself 123 bucks. Just sayin. 8D