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Hi All,

Yeah, like others here I'm going to upgrade ;) - present system is a P4 3.0GHZ and have been out of touch with hardware for sometime now

But, I'm very excited about getting back into building a system again. I've done a lot of reading over the last few days and here's what I've come up with so far

core i5 2.6 - decided this over quad core for performance and architecture upgradation and over i7 for price.

LGA 1156 - just in case I want to upgrade to an i7 down the road. I saw that i7's come in 2 different chip sets. Am I ok here?
Asus -7p55d and Gigabyte GAA-p55M are the 2 I'm interested in for the price and performance. They also have some good ratings on Newegg. Thoughts? I'm thinking the Asus because my present one is an Asus and has been trouble free for well over 5 years.

ddr3 1600 is memory for price and performance mix,. I'm thinking GSKILL 4GB (2x2). I have crucial and that has given me a couple of issues but largely trouble free.

I'm undecided over graphics card. I have an ATI now but before that used to have NVIDIA. I know this is a very broad question and one that will open up a can of works. I'm thinking ATI. Any recommendations? Sapphire seems to have a lt of cards. I have a Diamond now.

Have plenty of hard drives that I can reuse, so won't buy any

I am planning on reusing my SB Audigy2 Platinum Ex for now. Mobo has PCI slot I can use. Maybe an upgrade down the road

Also, can anyone recommend a heatsink+fan for cpu? I am leaning away from thermaltake. Returned 2 a few years ago because of noise.

Any recommendations for a cabinet? I can't believe how many cabinets there are out there. Newegg has a LARGE selection.

Thanks for any suggestions and lending me your ears ;)
 
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Thanks hunter. New to this site

here goes:

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: 1st Week of Nov (Early thanksgiving gift to.....MYSELF ;) )

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: gaming but not port-the-latest-WII-games-or-latest-FPS-Games, surginf obviously, watch online broadcasts, other video/music related stuff.

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: HDD (Have Sata 100/300 drives I can use and reuse), Soundcard(Reuisng my Audigy 2 Platinum ex), keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers (have logtech's surround

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: ( newegg.com, amazon.com, zipzoomfly.com) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: (USA)

PARTS PREFERENCES: by brand or type (Intel Processor on an Asus/Gigabyte mobo with an ATI based GPU

OVERCLOCKING: Maybe


ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: WOuld like a quiet system but am not averse to moderate noise. The bling on the system matters but not so much. What does matter is the number of fans on the system. I must have a COOL system because I;ll be running several hard drives etc. I wan to achieve this just by fans since I'm not an overlocker that will need water cooling etc.

Hope that's better
 
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Thanks hunter. Copied.
So most likely a separate case and PSU

Also, I forgot to mention that though I'm open to a budget I would prefer to wind up the system at around $600-700. Guess that's important to decide on parts.

what's your advice between core i5 and quad core?
 
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This is about the cheapest i5 build you can get:

Intel Core i5 750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215

GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2 LGA 1156 Intel P55 Micro ATX Intel
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128405

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231279

ASUS EAH5770/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121350

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181&Tpk=f3%20500gb

OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016

LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW SATA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289

+ Some cheap case w/o PSU.

Comes to about $725.

If you can't spend that much you may have to switch to AMD, which would also allow you to get a much better GPU.
 
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Thanks a LOT for your reply. Much of your choices are very similar to what I had on my wishlist, except I had the Asus mobo and Sapphire card. Don't need an HDD or dvd burner. Not sure I like the Giagbit's micro atx and lack of pci althogh i don't plan on having cards beyond sound and graphics

now, one question I did have was about GPU. You say that if I save money with an AMD, I can get a "better" GPU. My info is that the 5770 is one of the new budget GPU's that's a great cross betwee performance and price and supposedly outperforms some more expensive cards. By better, do you mean a crossfire solution or one with a higher memory bitrate abd stream processing?
Not interested in the former, and I think the latter is only if you plan to do slightly more FPU intense first person shooters....thoughts?

more money of course gets a better system but would you recommend upping the budget a bit more and going for a better card even though I don't plan on playing the the latest and greatest graphic intensive games?

Thanks for all your kind help
 
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Since your not interested in crossfire, it makes things a little simpler. Here's a nice, comparable AMD build.

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674

GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392

Mushkin XP 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146871&cm_re=mushkin_ddr3_1600-_-20-146-871-_-Product

ASUS EAH5850/G/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121349

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181&Tpk=f3%20500gb

OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341016

LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW SATA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289

Here's a review of the GPU, for comparison the 5770 performs between the 4850 and 4870.
 
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Thanks again for your reply. Traditionally, I've always owned Intel systems and I think I will end up being wwith Intel....yeah, I'm a guy of set choices :pfff:

So, going by the earlier build you provided, would you recommend upping the budget and getting the 5850 GPU or is the performance gain not worth the $100? I know it is hard to gauge what soemone else defines as gaming performance, but I'm more a Company of Heroes and Fifa kinda guy than Rage or crysis

Thanks
 
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