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Re: General/Gaming PC Build

2012-08-09T00:14:23-06:00

Ended up going with this :

CPU - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6819116504
Mobo - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6813130645
RAM - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6820231428
GFX - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6814500225
HDD - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6822136533
PSU - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6817341051
CPU Fan - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6835103099
DVD Drive - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6827135204
Case - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6811119233
Thermal Grease - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6835100007
Came to $ 804.90 (CDN) w/ combos and Mail in Rebates

Changed CPU to a i5-3570k and a Z77 Mobo for overclocking.
GFX are now a Zotac GTX 560
Case is now a Cooler Master HAF

I realize that I didn't take any of your advice bart (sorry!) but I had my reasons:

1. 1 TB was a must for me. A have a lot of movie rips, for instance my LoTR rips are 90GB alone.
2. I wanted 2 PCI 3.0 x16 slots so my options were open for a future SLI upgrade. I believe there was only one mATX board in my price range and it's reviews weren't great.

Thanks for all the help though!

Statistics: Posted by Pupsin — August 9th, 2012, 12:14 am

Re: General/Gaming PC Build

2012-08-07T20:35:56-06:00

bartoron wrote:

Get a cheaper hard drive. 1 TB is a TON of space and I have no idea why anyone would need that much space. Also, there's no reason to get a WD Black hard drive. The Blue hard drives are fine and are cheaper.

Depends what you're doing! At work we blow through terabytes like they're nothing. (But yeah on my personal home computer I've only used like half that?)

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — August 7th, 2012, 8:35 pm

Re: General/Gaming PC Build

2012-08-07T16:20:26-06:00

Here are a few ideas I have:

Get a cheaper hard drive. 1 TB is a TON of space and I have no idea why anyone would need that much space. Also, there's no reason to get a WD Black hard drive. The Blue hard drives are fine and are cheaper.
Get a smaller case and motherboard. A Micro ATX motherboard will provide you with just as much functionality as a full size ATX motherboard. Also, smaller computers take up less space and look nicer.
If you don't plan on overclocking, don't bother getting an aftermarket CPU cooler. I just built a new computer like two weeks ago and I have a very similar processor (i5-3450) and with the stock cooler the CPU idles in the low 40's. Even during games it only gets up into the low 50's, which for a CPU is nothing.

Looks like a good build overall.

bartoron

Statistics: Posted by bartoron — August 7th, 2012, 4:20 pm

General/Gaming PC Build

2012-08-07T01:05:26-06:00

Statistics: Posted by Pupsin — August 7th, 2012, 1:05 am