Thanks for your help. My brother and I are building a system. (He's actually building it. He's my younger brother, so I'm the manager.) His wife works at Intel so we get discount parts there. He asked me about mobo's and video cards.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: this month or so
BUDGET RANGE: $900-1,100
SYSTEM USAGE, measured in terms of probable time usage: surfing the internet, business applications, gaming, HTPC & watching movies (if hooked up to Hi Def TV)
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, Windows 7 OS
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: newegg.com
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US
PARTS PREFERENCES: Intel
OVERCLOCKING: Maybe
SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Just gave away my PS3 and am trying to figure out whether to replace it, or add similar functionality to this build; i.e., internal blu ray drive in computer to play to HDTV. Presumably this build would equal or exceed PS3 in gaming capacity.
Draft budget specs:
Case $130 - includes 650 watt power supply
CPU $150 - I7-860 or I7-920
video card $160
MB $200
HD $100 1tb
Memory - $100 - 4 (or probably 6) gig DDR3 1600
DVD or Blu Ray internal drive with DVD writing...
Thanks! Happy New Year to you and yours. Let me know if you have further questions.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: this month or so
BUDGET RANGE: $900-1,100
SYSTEM USAGE, measured in terms of probable time usage: surfing the internet, business applications, gaming, HTPC & watching movies (if hooked up to Hi Def TV)
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, Windows 7 OS
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: newegg.com
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US
PARTS PREFERENCES: Intel
OVERCLOCKING: Maybe
SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Just gave away my PS3 and am trying to figure out whether to replace it, or add similar functionality to this build; i.e., internal blu ray drive in computer to play to HDTV. Presumably this build would equal or exceed PS3 in gaming capacity.
Draft budget specs:
Case $130 - includes 650 watt power supply
CPU $150 - I7-860 or I7-920
video card $160
MB $200
HD $100 1tb
Memory - $100 - 4 (or probably 6) gig DDR3 1600
DVD or Blu Ray internal drive with DVD writing...
Thanks! Happy New Year to you and yours. Let me know if you have further questions.