Planet Descent
Technical => Technical => Topic started by: Canceler on June 09, 2010, 03:13:53 PM
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i've done a bit of searching just today, and my budget is about $1200. This is because I am young and have no concept of responsibility or retirement savings. And I am willing to take about year saving for it. :P
CPU: Intel Core i7-860 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115214)
CPU Cooler: COOLER MASTER GeminII S CPU Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103046)
Mobo: ASUS P7P55D LGA 1156 ATX Motherboard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131404)
RAM: OCZ Gold 8GB (2x 4GB) 240-pin DDR3 1333 RAM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227539)
GPU: VisionTek Radeon HD 5750 1GB Video Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129146)
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W ATX12V Modular Power Supply (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136534)
Optical Drive: ASUS Black 24x/8x/16x 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204)
Case: COOLER MASTER Elite 335 ATX Mid Tower Case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119161)
Misc: (1) APEVIA 120mm Blue LED Case Fan (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811998121); (2) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Grease (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007)
OS: Windows 7 64-bit (free for college students >8D)
opinions? >.>
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Personally I think Intel's processors are overpriced, and AMDs are better at overclocking, but it's not a *bad* choice per se.
Again, Intel isn't my first choice for mobo, and that looks more like a workstation mobo than a gaming one. I'd suggest something like this: Gigabyte (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128432). This one also has a buttload of various connections on the back to connect to pretty much anything you can dream of.
RAM looks fine.
GPU is a bit dated but if you already have it why not.
Sound card I can't really comment on, but that board I linked has an 8-channel realtek card onboard, which in my experience is more than sufficient. But I suppose if you do a lot of sound stuff (and it's a b-day present :P) a sound card would be useful. Just make sure the board you get has the space for it. Some boards have the PCI-E slot literally right on top of the slot for the sound card (PCI?).
PSU looks good.
Case is pretty irrelevant in my opinion :P Get what you want.
HDD is, again, fairly irrelevant imo. Get what you want.
Personally I'd get a blu-ray drive just for posterity but that looks fine :P
OS, well, meh, not much choice there.
Not really sure why you're going for an mATX mobo for an ATX case, I had a horrible time finding a decent mATX mobo for my semi-planned rig (darn HP and their tiny cases!), and they might be more expensive, but I guess if you found one you like go for it.
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well, since i already decided on CPU, the mobo suggestion becomes unusable, but i do appreciate the consideration. i don't actually know what makes the difference between a workstation mobo and a gaming mobo, since i thought the processing units would take care of that. the only thing i would like to know is the bridge speed (i think), which doesn't seem to be listed in the specs. ;o;
the case, btw, is mATX, but it does fit a full ATX PSU, which is what i'm getting :P
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Well that mobo has a ton of HDD slots but not much in the way of A/V connections or PCI slots which makes me think its more for a workstation than gaming.
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hmm i think i'm just going to expand my budget another $150 (lulz easy to do when you have nothing (http://forum.thegamecreators.com/g/smilies/laugh.gif)) and get a new VisionTek Radeon HD 5750 video card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129146&cm_re=radeon_hd_5750_1gb-_-14-129-146-_-Product) and sell my old computer for some pittance.
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Sweet
Nice ram looks like mine lol
The video card you just chose seems to be dual slot, and I don't think that goes well in a mini ATX Case, covers up slots. I didn't realize this when I made my build so I have 1 PCI 2.0 slot covered (I didn't know anything about mobos until I had one) :P
Have a happy birthday! :D
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don't worry about me, it covers up a PCIe 1x slot, which i have no use for. ;D
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I have always liked AMD over Intel, and NVIDIA over ATI.
That's me though. The one or two times I had ATI; one time for sure, I had problems loading games properly.
Windows 7? I think that's better than Vista; but I am only going by what people have said about the two.