Approximate Purchase Date: Sunday (9/19/2010)
Budget Range: My budget is $1000, but I don't want to necessarily spend that much unless it's necessary. I'd like to essentially build a gaming PC with good quality parts for the best "bang for the buck" This budget is before rebates as well.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, movies, web browsing
Parts Not Required:
PSU: OCZGXS700 GameXStream (unsure if this PSU will be good enough to power a 1 GPU build) http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/power/ocz/gamexstream700/index.htm
Hard Drives
DVD Drive
Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
Monitor
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, microcenter.com (Going to the one in Orange County this Sunday with my brother), honestly any other reliable sites to purchase parts from like tiger direct.
Country of Origin: United States
Parts Preferences: I was planning on an AMD Phenom 965 BE and 870A-G54 Socket AM3 870 ATX from micro center. Reason being it's only $200, although I'm not sure how good of a mobo that 870 is. I would like a mobo that would be able to crossfire in the future, but isn't necessary as I'm still not 100% sure if I will be doing this in the future. I am open minded to intel or AMD as I've used both in the past. I've just opted for AMD because their builds seem to be cheaper and from some of the benches I've seen, produced roughly the same results.
GPU wise I was thinking about the Radeon 5850/5870 or the nvidia 460/470. Preferring the Radeon 5850 as it seems like the best performance per dollar out right now. That and I hear ATI cards run cooler than nvidia.
I don't have a preferrence really for ram. Anything that is of decent quality.
Case wise it's all about quality/performance. I'm not interested in a flashy looking case, but I'm not saying I would overlook other cases if they are good in performance because they are flashy.
Overclocking: For the time being... No. I've never OCed anything before and don't know how it works, so I don't want to toy with it.
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments: Because I will be heading to the nearby micro center tomorrow, I was hoping for a build with the best of both worlds (micro center + newegg). Living in the valley in Southern California, my room tends to get especially hot in the summer time. I've actually had a GPU die on me last summer because it got too hot (this is with no OCing at all). I'm sure it was also due to my ancient Antec Sonta case from about 7-8 years back.
I've been running Windows XP on my current PC for quite some time now, so probably should get a Windows 7 copy by now. I think I saw one on newegg for $99? Wasn't sure if it was the upgraded version or actual for 64 bit version.
I can't think of anything else to really add in right now, but I am planning on heading to the micro center tomorrow afternoon (less than 24 hours), so I guess I'm not really giving the community here a lot of time to try and help me. I would however appreciate any type of help I can get in helping me make my decision on a build!
Budget Range: My budget is $1000, but I don't want to necessarily spend that much unless it's necessary. I'd like to essentially build a gaming PC with good quality parts for the best "bang for the buck" This budget is before rebates as well.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, movies, web browsing
Parts Not Required:
PSU: OCZGXS700 GameXStream (unsure if this PSU will be good enough to power a 1 GPU build) http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/power/ocz/gamexstream700/index.htm
Hard Drives
DVD Drive
Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
Monitor
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, microcenter.com (Going to the one in Orange County this Sunday with my brother), honestly any other reliable sites to purchase parts from like tiger direct.
Country of Origin: United States
Parts Preferences: I was planning on an AMD Phenom 965 BE and 870A-G54 Socket AM3 870 ATX from micro center. Reason being it's only $200, although I'm not sure how good of a mobo that 870 is. I would like a mobo that would be able to crossfire in the future, but isn't necessary as I'm still not 100% sure if I will be doing this in the future. I am open minded to intel or AMD as I've used both in the past. I've just opted for AMD because their builds seem to be cheaper and from some of the benches I've seen, produced roughly the same results.
GPU wise I was thinking about the Radeon 5850/5870 or the nvidia 460/470. Preferring the Radeon 5850 as it seems like the best performance per dollar out right now. That and I hear ATI cards run cooler than nvidia.
I don't have a preferrence really for ram. Anything that is of decent quality.
Case wise it's all about quality/performance. I'm not interested in a flashy looking case, but I'm not saying I would overlook other cases if they are good in performance because they are flashy.
Overclocking: For the time being... No. I've never OCed anything before and don't know how it works, so I don't want to toy with it.
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments: Because I will be heading to the nearby micro center tomorrow, I was hoping for a build with the best of both worlds (micro center + newegg). Living in the valley in Southern California, my room tends to get especially hot in the summer time. I've actually had a GPU die on me last summer because it got too hot (this is with no OCing at all). I'm sure it was also due to my ancient Antec Sonta case from about 7-8 years back.
I've been running Windows XP on my current PC for quite some time now, so probably should get a Windows 7 copy by now. I think I saw one on newegg for $99? Wasn't sure if it was the upgraded version or actual for 64 bit version.
I can't think of anything else to really add in right now, but I am planning on heading to the micro center tomorrow afternoon (less than 24 hours), so I guess I'm not really giving the community here a lot of time to try and help me. I would however appreciate any type of help I can get in helping me make my decision on a build!