The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

[Venji]

Oblivion86 said:

Vetteman94 said:

Oblivion86 said:

I really don't have time to build a PC at the moment, so I just order it through Cyberpower. This is my final build I am definitely excited to get this PC. There was a few things I wanted but I am waiting for them to come down in price,  I got a free upgrade to the 6870 so that was a huge plus for me. I was going to get a 300GB Velociraptor 10000rpm HDD, but at the price and the difference between then 7200rpm 64 cache just isn't big enough.

 

Also I wanted to SLI my video cards. I think I'll waiting till they come down a bit more, overall I am happy with this build. Finally, I will eventually upgrade the radiator and PSU as I do not trust this brand, but should be good for a 2 or 3 years. 

 

FYI, this case looks and cools amazingly.

CAS: Xion Predator 970 Gaming Series Mid Tower Case w/ 2 External Removable HDD Bays
CASUPGRADE: None
CD: * Asus BC-08B1LT 8X Blu-Ray Player & DVDRW Combo [ 44] (BLACK COLOR)
CD2: None
CPU: AMD Phenom™II X6 1090T Six-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology [ 86]
CS_FAN: Default case fans
FA_HDD: None
FAN: XtremeGear Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance Extreme Silent at 20dBA)
FLASHMEDIA: None
FLOPPY: None
FREEGAME_VC02: DarkSiders Game Coupon
GLASSES: None
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
HDD2: None
IEEE_CARD: None
KEYBOARD: Razer Arctosa Black USB Gaming Keyboard [ 38]
MB_ADDON: None
MEMORY: 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand)
MONITOR: None
MONITOR2: None
MONITOR3: None
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte GA-870A-UD3 AMD 870/SB850 chipset support DDR3 Ultra Durable™3 Socket AM3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Audio, GBLAN, Support 6-core CPU, CPU Auto Unlocker, USB3.0, SATA-III, ON/OFF Charge for IPod, RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe, 2 PCIe X1, & 3 PCI
MOUSE: Razer Deathadder 3500 DPI High Precision 3.5G Infrared Gaming Mouse [ 47]
MULTIVIEW: Non-SLI/Non-CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors
NCSW: None
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts - XtremeGear SLI/CrossFireX Ready Power Supply [ 10]
RUSH: NO; READY TO SHIP IN 5~10 BUSINESS DAYS
SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
SPEAKERS: None [-5]
TEMP: None
TVRC: None
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
USBFLASH: None
USBHD: None
USBX: None
VC_PHYSX: None
VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD)
VIDEO2: None
VIDEO3: None
WNC: None
XWNC1: * Asus USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter [ 22]
_PRICE: ( 1181)

 Comments and suggestions would be appreciated.

What did you want this thing to do, control all the satellites that are orbitting the earth?

Personally I think its a little much for a gaming PC,  you could probably cut some things out and save yourself a good amount of money.  Unless this is for other things like graphic design and such.

If its just for Gaming you could cut out the cooling system and 4 GB of RAM.  And Maybe go with just a Quad Core CPU instead of a 6 core,  then giving you something to upgrade to later on when it starts to become obsolete.  Plus the components that will release in a couple years will be much better than the ones out now, giving your computer much more life. 

Also, The price listed at the end, what currency is that in?

It's in US dollars, I got a hell of a deal on this and yes I do alot of graphics design with Cinema 4D and Adobe as well develop websites using flash and action scripting, so the RAM and 6 Core are imperative.

8GB is pretty standard now, I'm finding 4GB to be restrictive for some power applications.

A 4 core sandybridge Processor will give you a little more power then a 6 core AMD depending on how well Adobe uses the cores in it's future products ( Bear in mind you can push a i7 2600K to 4.8Ghz on good air cooling alone - on the other hand a Intel mb/cpu  will cost a bit more)

 http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-2010/compare,2426.html?prod[4786]=on&prod[4757]=on

Water cooling is a bit OTT unless your planning on doing some serious overclocking.

The MB seems to support USB 3 but it seems to be only offering USB 2 ports which is very strange.

How ever all that aside -  it's a nicely spec'ed PC with a great gaming mouse.