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radiantshadow92 on 18 September 2012

The build 

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge ($310) 

Cooler: XIGMATEK LOKI SD963 92mm HYPRO Bearing CPU Cooler ($25) 

GPU: GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB ($280) 

PSU: CORSAIR CX600 V2 600W ATX12V v2.3 ($70) 

SSD: need help choosing this 

Optical: Samsung SH-222BB ($17) 

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB ($80) 

Mobo:ASRock Fatal1ty P67 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard($100) 

Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER-U3 with fans ($50) 

Memory: Mushkin Enhanced Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 ($44) 

Total ($961)

 

watchu guys think? I need help with the SSD and if you guys have any suggestions im all ears. thanks



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radiantshadow92 on 18 September 2012

o yeah my budget is like 1k



Squilliam on 18 September 2012

I would also suggest that you get a current generation graphics card (GTX 6xx or AMD 7xxx range) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129205 for instance would be a far better card for the money.

I think the stock Intel fans are good enough so you can drop the extra fan and put money towards the rest of the build.

SSD: Something like? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227766 I haven't really followed which are the best SSD's or anything.





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Squilliam on 18 September 2012
CGI-Quality said:
Squilliam said:
I would also suggest that you get a current generation graphics card (GTX 6xx or AMD 7xxx range) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129205 for instance would be a far better card for the money.

I think the stock Intel fans are good enough so you can drop the extra fan and put money towards the rest of the build.

SSD: Something like? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227766 I haven't really followed which are the best SSD's or anything.



He could go with the GTX 660, which is comparable in price and performance to the 570. As for SSDs, the Samsung I suggested one is good, just may be a bit out of his price range (he's working with $1k).

The AMD architecture will have better legs than the Nvidia architecture due to having extra memory and better performance on compute workloads. The Nvidia Kepler mid range GPU is the GK104 whereas the AMD architecture is their top of the range, so whilst their performance is comparable in current workloads the AMD architecture has more capacity to scale to future demands. I would pick once next generation engines begin to emerge and as rumours suggest they are based on the AMD micro-architecture the 79xx will start to see a marked advantage.



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