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Jaywood2010 on 13 March 2011

So I have recently decided I am ready to build a PC for games. I'm not wanting to future proof it at all, and I still want to play most games at high settings. I would love to keep the price below 1000$ if it's possible but I really don't know how because I really don't know what I'm looking for.  However this is what I found.  Please give me suggestions and if there is something better that is cheaper. I want to go with intel btw. The Total Cost of the one I chose parts for is $1148.87

CD/DVD Burner-ASUS BLACK $18.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211

Case- Antec Six Hundred $89.95 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129073

CPU- Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield $279.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211

PSU- Corsair CMPSU-750TX $109.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

Motherboard- EVGA 131-GT-E767-TR $209.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188068

HardDrive- Western Digital Caviar Black $89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533

Graphics Card- EVGA 01G-P3-1380-KR GeForce GTX 460 $199.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130596

RAM- Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 6GB $89.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226183

CPU Cooler- Cooler Master V8  $59.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103055







       

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cory.ok on 13 March 2011

you should check the manufacturers failure rates whenever youre buying a 1TB hdd, some have had failure rates of 30-60% within the first year



Soleron on 13 March 2011

1. You should spend less on the CPU and more on the GPu; it will get you higher framerates overall. In your position I would say the HD 6950 or GTX 560.

2. If you are determined to go Intel, then you should get Sandy Bridge (i7 2500K or 2600K) instead of Nehalem. I believe the motherboards are back in stock.

3. You can spend a lot, lot less on a motherboard and not notice any difference. Ones that expensive are intended for overclocking.

4. You don't need a CPU cooler unless you overclock.



Jaywood2010 on 13 March 2011
Soleron said:

1. You should spend less on the CPU and more on the GPu; it will get you higher framerates overall. In your position I would say the HD 6950 or GTX 560.

2. If you are determined to go Intel, then you should get Sandy Bridge (i7 2500K or 2600K) instead of Nehalem. I believe the motherboards are back in stock.

3. You can spend a lot, lot less on a motherboard and not notice any difference. Ones that expensive are intended for overclocking.

4. You don't need a CPU cooler unless you overclock.


Why the Sandy Bridge instead? And my friend insist that I should overclock




       

JWS on 14 March 2011
Soleron said:

1. You should spend less on the CPU and more on the GPu; it will get you higher framerates overall. In your position I would say the HD 6950 or GTX 560.

2. If you are determined to go Intel, then you should get Sandy Bridge (i7 2500K or 2600K) instead of Nehalem. I believe the motherboards are back in stock.

3. You can spend a lot, lot less on a motherboard and not notice any difference. Ones that expensive are intended for overclocking.

4. You don't need a CPU cooler unless you overclock.

i agree with everyting except for no4. The stock cooler that intel makes is shit. The clips can break and the fan falls off. get a fan the bolts from the backside of the mother board, just make sure the box you buy will fit it.



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mchaza on 14 March 2011

you should get he XFX HD Radeon 6850 GPU which cost me 240 dollars but i have been maxing alot of games with it 



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Epoch on 14 March 2011

Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games.  An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications.  That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance.  See here.  There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.

Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W.  650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on.  My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.

There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS.  You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.

Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself.  Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.



Soleron on 14 March 2011
Epoch said:

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

The Core i7 9xx CPUs use triple-channel memory so you buy in multiples of 3GB: 3GB, 6GB or 12GB.

Sandy Bridge is still 2, 4, 8GB though.

@JayWood2010

Sandy Bridge gives about 30% more performance at the same price, due to higher clockspeeds and greater IPC. It also uses less power.



Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011
Epoch said:

Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games.  An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications.  That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance.  See here.  There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.

Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W.  650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on.  My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.

There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS.  You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.

Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself.  Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.

Thanks, I will definitely take that into consideration :) and as far as the case.. haha lol




       

Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011
Epoch said:

Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games.  An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications.  That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance.  See here.  There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.

Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W.  650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on.  My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.

There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS.  You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.

Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself.  Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.


Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it