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Have finally acquired spousal approval on a new purchase, and am just about ready to buy. This will be my second build and just need some outside opinions on component choices. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Today or tomorrow
BUDGET RANGE: $1800 including shipping
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming primarily
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg
CROSSFIRE: Yes
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1920x1200)
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Big fan of fans. 
Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Antec CP-850 850W Continuous Power CPX SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz CPU
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 RAM
Crossfired 2x SAPPHIRE Toxic 100269TXSR Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
Scythe MUGEN-2 SCMG-2000 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler
I am reusing an older monitor and got a new keyboard and mouse already. As proposed now, i'm sitting at a few bucks over my $1800 budget with shipping included.
Any suggestions or places where I could improve?
Message edited by bryntryst on 06-10-2009 at 05:44:19 PM
| evongugg wrote : The above motherboard supports Crossfire if you prefer it over SLI. |
| evongugg wrote : How about this?
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Wow, thanks for the quick response! To be honest, I never really considered the Intel route. As I mentioned above, it's been nigh a decade since my last intel (pII 266 Mhz 
).
Keeping the original case/PSU, and upgrading the RAM, while going with the dual-275s and omitting the blu-ray drive put me at $1.37 under my budget after adding a couple case fans. Hehe. Not a bad alternative.
| bryntryst wrote : Wow, thanks for the quick response! To be honest, I never really considered the Intel route. As I mentioned above, it's been nigh a decade since my last intel (pII 266 Mhz Keeping the original case/PSU, and upgrading the RAM, while going with the dual-275s and omitting the blu-ray drive put me at $1.37 under my budget after adding a couple case fans. Hehe. Not a bad alternative. |
Not only is it not a bad alternative, I think you'll find it a unanimous vote for the best alternative.
Make sure you get the i7 920 from Antares Digital as linked above and select D0 stepping (+8$). It runs cooler than C0 stepping which is the older version.
The Gigabyte or this Asus board are both good boards. You can SLI or Xfire with either one. Personally I'd get 2x Vapor 4890s instead of the 275s, but thats more a matter of opinion (similar benchmakrs, the 4890s run a bit cheaper).
Message edited by drunknmunkys on 06-10-2009 at 08:33:00 PM
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