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beitzel15   11-13-2009 at 05:42:06 AM

I just ordered the parts tonight... Here they are

Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout. (also got two 120mm fans + 2 dust filters for the side of the case)

CPU: Intel i7 920. Will be OC to 3.0ghz+

GPU: XFX Ati HD 5770 1gb. (will add another next year sometime)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper N52

HardDrive: Western Digital Caviar Black 500gb

Mobo: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

PSU: Corsair 650watt

Ram: 6gb OCZ Gold 1600

OS: Win. 7 64bit

------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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Bronze Home Brew badge niklas_13   11-13-2009 at 05:51:48 AM

I think you should of used your GTX 285 and your WD 640 thats in your sig also i would of got a Corsair 750 PSU

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------------------------------ P55-UD4P / i5 750 @ 3.6 180X20 / GSkill 1600 @ 1420 7-7-7-22 / WD Black 640 / HD 5850 / Corsair 750 / Win 7
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JackNaylorPE   11-13-2009 at 05:57:05 AM

Little late for advice w/ parts on the way :)

Only things I wuda chnaged for sure are:

any 500 GB per platter HD (WD only has em in the 2TB model)
Better HS

------------------------------ If a man speaks in the forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong ?
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beitzel15   11-13-2009 at 06:10:49 AM

niklas_13 wrote :

I think you should of used your GTX 285 and your WD 640 thats in your sig also i would of got a Corsair 750 PSU



Im still going to keep/use my sig build... this i7 build is for a family member.

------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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Bronze Home Brew badge niklas_13   11-14-2009 at 01:28:07 AM

ok then i think you should get a 750 PSU for latter upgrades and get a WD 640 black or Samsung F3 500, Other then that it looks good

------------------------------ P55-UD4P / i5 750 @ 3.6 180X20 / GSkill 1600 @ 1420 7-7-7-22 / WD Black 640 / HD 5850 / Corsair 750 / Win 7
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mortonww   11-14-2009 at 01:47:01 AM

What's the family member going to use the computer for? Games, right? At what resolution? 5770 seems kinda weak.

------------------------------ i7 920 @ 3.2 GHz w/Cooler Master V8,
OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 MHz 8-8-8-24, Sapphire Radeon HD 4870X2,
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500 GB, Corsair HX1000 Watt PSU,
Intel DX58SO, Cooler Master Storm Sniper mid-tower, Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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beitzel15   11-14-2009 at 02:25:39 AM

it'll be on a 24"screen

------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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mortonww   11-14-2009 at 02:49:15 AM

Grab a 5850. It's like $130 more, but it won't suck.

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------------------------------ i7 920 @ 3.2 GHz w/Cooler Master V8,
OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 MHz 8-8-8-24, Sapphire Radeon HD 4870X2,
Samsung Spinpoint F3 500 GB, Corsair HX1000 Watt PSU,
Intel DX58SO, Cooler Master Storm Sniper mid-tower, Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
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beitzel15   11-14-2009 at 03:24:47 AM

mortonww wrote :

Grab a 5850. It's like $130 more, but it won't suck.




The 5770 shouldnt suck on this screen size should it??? I've already got the 5770, it came today. Call of duty games will most likely be the only games played on it.

------------------------------ E8500 @ 3.60GHz,
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 cpu heatsink, 4gigs G.Skill Ram, 640gig HD, XFX GTX 285 Black Edition, Corsair TX650 psu, Gigabyte UD3R mobo, NZXT Tempest.
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Bronze Home Brew badge niklas_13   11-14-2009 at 03:54:37 AM

It will be a good card for most games and a grate card in xfire down the road. you will have to lower details and play in DX9 mode in crysis tho if you want 40 FPS

a review of the HD 5XXX cards http://www.anandtech.com/video/sho [...] i=3658&p=1



------------------------------ P55-UD4P / i5 750 @ 3.6 180X20 / GSkill 1600 @ 1420 7-7-7-22 / WD Black 640 / HD 5850 / Corsair 750 / Win 7
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