Post: Buying my computer..
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10-03-2011, 12:00 AM
#1
Thrashher
Who’s Jim Erased?
I am buying the computer off of ibuypower, and don't tell me to buy it off newegg and build it myself, because its not cheaper. I've checked, multiple times using the same parts.
Ok to the main post..
This is my specs of the computer I want to buy. Do you think this is good for me? What should I change, if anything?
What I plan to do;
Play games (BF3, Starcraft II, etc)
Video Edit (Adobe Premiere Pro, AAE, Sony Vegas etc)
A little photoshop
General browsing (Not much, I'll have my laptop for it.)
I plan to overclock if necessary.
So, heres the specs.
1 x Case ( CoolerMaster HAF 932 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black )
1 x Processor ( Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor (4x 3.40GHz/8MB L3 Cache) )
1 x Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1155] - [Free Upgrade] Standard 120mm Fan )
1 x Memory ( 8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand )
1 x Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 1GB - Single Card ) (I plan on buying a second one around the holidays)
1 x Video Card Brand ( Major Brand Powered by AMD or NVIDIA )
1 x Motherboard ( [SLI] ASUS P8Z68-V Pro -- 3x PCI-E 2.0 x16, On-Board Bluetooth, Lucid Virtu Technology )
1 x Power Supply ( 1000 Watt -- Extreme Gaming Series )
1 x Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )
1 x Network Card ( Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Network Card )
1 x Operating System ( Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit )
(Deleted stuff out of it that was unnecessary for you guys to have opinions on, such as hard drive and disk drive)
This all equals to around $1400, including shipping and after taking off rebate prices. Leaves me $100 or so to buy a monitor and a little extra to buy my mouse and keyboard.
So, what do you all think? Change anything?
Thanks!
10-04-2011, 04:30 AM
#2
Jakes625
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Actually if you do not plan on overclocking it then don't even bother getting a water cooler.
Just get an after market heat sinc fan, that is big and has low rpm's so it'll be quiet and cool.
2. No need for a network card, most new motherboards have them built in.
3. Just pirate an OS. It'll save you money, and I could send you my legit copy of win 7 home premium.
4. I would suggest getting two GeForce GTX 780's then use an SLI bridge to connect them. They are both single cards with about 4GB of video memory support Direct X 11, and have vertex shader at like 5. Then combined thats like 8GB of video memory. Or get two HD radeon and use the firewire (or whatever the hell it's called) as I think your motherboard supports it.
So just do that and you could build it for around $800. Save a few bucks, and build it yourself without the water cooler. Search around, maybe not on newegg. But just look around.
Just get an after market heat sinc fan, that is big and has low rpm's so it'll be quiet and cool.
2. No need for a network card, most new motherboards have them built in.
3. Just pirate an OS. It'll save you money, and I could send you my legit copy of win 7 home premium.
4. I would suggest getting two GeForce GTX 780's then use an SLI bridge to connect them. They are both single cards with about 4GB of video memory support Direct X 11, and have vertex shader at like 5. Then combined thats like 8GB of video memory. Or get two HD radeon and use the firewire (or whatever the hell it's called) as I think your motherboard supports it.
So just do that and you could build it for around $800. Save a few bucks, and build it yourself without the water cooler. Search around, maybe not on newegg. But just look around.
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10-05-2011, 03:52 AM
#3
Thrashher
Who’s Jim Erased?
Originally posted by jp4priest
Actually if you do not plan on overclocking it then don't even bother getting a water cooler.
Just get an after market heat sinc fan, that is big and has low rpm's so it'll be quiet and cool.
2. No need for a network card, most new motherboards have them built in.
3. Just pirate an OS. It'll save you money, and I could send you my legit copy of win 7 home premium.
4. I would suggest getting two GeForce GTX 780's then use an SLI bridge to connect them. They are both single cards with about 4GB of video memory support Direct X 11, and have vertex shader at like 5. Then combined thats like 8GB of video memory. Or get two HD radeon and use the firewire (or whatever the hell it's called) as I think your motherboard supports it.
So just do that and you could build it for around $800. Save a few bucks, and build it yourself without the water cooler. Search around, maybe not on newegg. But just look around.
Just get an after market heat sinc fan, that is big and has low rpm's so it'll be quiet and cool.
2. No need for a network card, most new motherboards have them built in.
3. Just pirate an OS. It'll save you money, and I could send you my legit copy of win 7 home premium.
4. I would suggest getting two GeForce GTX 780's then use an SLI bridge to connect them. They are both single cards with about 4GB of video memory support Direct X 11, and have vertex shader at like 5. Then combined thats like 8GB of video memory. Or get two HD radeon and use the firewire (or whatever the hell it's called) as I think your motherboard supports it.
So just do that and you could build it for around $800. Save a few bucks, and build it yourself without the water cooler. Search around, maybe not on newegg. But just look around.
Ok well I plan to overclock..
Network cards aren't built in.. I don't know where your buying your shit..
Ehh, I know, but I plan to use this computer for 5-10 years so I don't mind paying the money for the OS
I dont know of that kind of graphics card, but I plan to SLI my 2 cards once I get the second one, and just the cards alone would cost almost $600.. So $800 is way off..
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