- Jan 16, 2012
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Approximate Purchase Date: as soon as possible (ie: this week).
Budget including shipping where applicable: $1400 (I have Amazon Prime and I'm receiving $1400 of gift cards).
System Usage Needs: Gaming, web browsing, watching 1080p movies, modifying source in Notepad++, PuTTY/WinSCP/Navicat, PhotoShop, Video Editing.
New monitor: Yes
Parts to Upgrade: Case, CPU cooler, Power Supply, Graphics Card, SSD, RAM.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon.com only.
Location: Northern Arkansas
Parts Preferences: ASUS, Gigabyte.
Overclocking: Yes, I wouldn't mind going up to a higher OC with the watercooling. I run 4.2Ghz right now, because I haven't been able to get something higher which is stable.
SLI or Crossfire: No.
Resolution: 1920x1080 (current), 1920x1080 x2 (after this purchase I'll use two monitors).
Current system:
Rosewill Challenger ATX Mid
ASUS P8Z77-V LE Plus
OCZ ZT 650W Fully-Modular PSU
Intel i5-3570k @ 4.2Ghz
Hyper 212 EVO
Crucial Ballistix VLP 8GB DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24
EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB
Kingston V300 120GB SSD (530MB/s R/W)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATAIII (64MB Cache)
LITE-ON iHAS124-04 DVD Burner
ASUS PB238Q 23" IPS LED-lit
Logitech g500 (USB mouse)
Logitech g35 (USB headset)
Logitech c920 (USB webcam)
Corsair K95 (USB keyboard)
I plan on purchasing another of the same monitor to run dual monitors. This drops my budget down to $1194.
I plan on purchasing another 8GB stick of low profile RAM, unless there is some much better RAM I should replace mine with.
I want to upgrade the graphics card (preferably staying with Nvidia), maybe to a GTX 770. I'd like to try a Gigabyte card.
The PSU could probably stand an upgrade considering the new GPU and all the USB devices. I would want a fully-modular one still.
I want a case with better cable management and air flow, a window on the side wouldn't hurt but isn't a priority (White Corsair 500R looks good).
I want a water cooler for the CPU.
I want another SSD, I find myself running out of space with my 120GB one (used for OS installation, and a few games/applications).
Budget including shipping where applicable: $1400 (I have Amazon Prime and I'm receiving $1400 of gift cards).
System Usage Needs: Gaming, web browsing, watching 1080p movies, modifying source in Notepad++, PuTTY/WinSCP/Navicat, PhotoShop, Video Editing.
New monitor: Yes
Parts to Upgrade: Case, CPU cooler, Power Supply, Graphics Card, SSD, RAM.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon.com only.
Location: Northern Arkansas
Parts Preferences: ASUS, Gigabyte.
Overclocking: Yes, I wouldn't mind going up to a higher OC with the watercooling. I run 4.2Ghz right now, because I haven't been able to get something higher which is stable.
SLI or Crossfire: No.
Resolution: 1920x1080 (current), 1920x1080 x2 (after this purchase I'll use two monitors).
Current system:
Rosewill Challenger ATX Mid
ASUS P8Z77-V LE Plus
OCZ ZT 650W Fully-Modular PSU
Intel i5-3570k @ 4.2Ghz
Hyper 212 EVO
Crucial Ballistix VLP 8GB DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24
EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB
Kingston V300 120GB SSD (530MB/s R/W)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATAIII (64MB Cache)
LITE-ON iHAS124-04 DVD Burner
ASUS PB238Q 23" IPS LED-lit
Logitech g500 (USB mouse)
Logitech g35 (USB headset)
Logitech c920 (USB webcam)
Corsair K95 (USB keyboard)
I plan on purchasing another of the same monitor to run dual monitors. This drops my budget down to $1194.
I plan on purchasing another 8GB stick of low profile RAM, unless there is some much better RAM I should replace mine with.
I want to upgrade the graphics card (preferably staying with Nvidia), maybe to a GTX 770. I'd like to try a Gigabyte card.
The PSU could probably stand an upgrade considering the new GPU and all the USB devices. I would want a fully-modular one still.
I want a case with better cable management and air flow, a window on the side wouldn't hurt but isn't a priority (White Corsair 500R looks good).
I want a water cooler for the CPU.
I want another SSD, I find myself running out of space with my 120GB one (used for OS installation, and a few games/applications).
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