What components can I buy for SandyBridge NOW

Hello Again Friends,

Question:
With the Thanksgiving sale (Black Friday) coming up, I want to purchase components at discounted price. I was convinced that I should wait till Jan 5th for Sandy Bridge to be released, and have given into that school of thought.

However, I still want to take advantage of the sale going on currently on sites like New Egg. So my question is, what components would you recommend that I can buy from NOW in anticipation of the new processors being released next year.

My wish list:

A very good Monitor (wouldn't mind paying a bit extra for real quality here)
Speakers (again, going for a gaming/multimedia build so need good speakers)
SSD (I don't know if I can buy these just yet...or should I?)
OS (Should I buy Windows 7 now? Or can I just wait for this one?)
Case (Again, what should I do?)
Power Supply
RAM

Please advise me as to what components I can/SHOULD buy now in order to take advantage of the sales!

Thanks

Everything but mobo/ram/cpu.
lga 1156 CPU Coolers will also fit the lga 1155 because they use the same mounting holes.

I'm in the same position as you actually. Here's what I've found so far:

Windows 7 64-bit OEM (Home Premium and Professional) is on sale on Newegg. Since you have to buy the OS anyway, you might as well get it cheaper now (I sure am). Home Premium was $100 and is now $85 while Professional went from $140 to $120.

Watch for sales on the "SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive" as it is the best 1TB HDD. Newegg had them at $55 (instead of $70) for a couple days and I know there's other places that have them on sale, too or at least at a lower price than Newegg's regular price. I ordered one myself.

Everything else I'm still unsure about. None of the deals on Newegg seemed very "must buy" to me. I'm not sure if they change their deals tomorrow or not for the actual Black Friday but it doesn't appear that way from the way they worded their current sales.

I'm in same place as y'all

Buying CM 212+ now

May buy Win 7 for $85

Looking for the CM 690ii case to go on sale

Already bought Antec EA380 PSU

Almost bought some RAM but I think some of you have successfully convinced me I should wait to make sure it works right with SB....

Will also watch for a Samsung or Caviar Black 1tb drive

^ exactly what I was gonna say after looking around.
I went ahead and bought 8GB of ram for $89! (60-day return on it) if it runs in triple or quad mode i'll just buy 1 or 2 more sticks.
and that seagate for $50.(got this too) (60 day return)

Anyone know if the Mushkin Silverline is comparable to Ripjaws? Good px at $80. Might take the risk.

well allot of combo's have W7 with it for $30 off.

and mushkin is good RAM.

OK

So here is what I have so far:

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/ [...] ChangeItem

Give me your opinions please!
Here is what I have so far:

Microsoft SIDEWINDER X4 Keyboard - $30
Logitech G9 - $60 (or $30 after rebate)
CM 212 - $30 (or $15 after rebate)
G.SKill Phoenix Pro - $187
Asus 24" and Microsoft Professional Pro - $260


Are there any combos I can get with this? Suggestions for a speaker? Suggestions for a case/PSU?

Any promo codes?

The full tower case is a bit much for me.

Common guys...please review my items and give me a psu/case combo porfavor!

Cooler Master 690 ii is on sale for $80 on amazon. Normally $100 if that is the one you are looking for.

Thanks - I'm prob getting the Basic version and Id like to see that at or below 60 hopefully

ah nope its back up

Antec, Seasonic, Corsair, and XFX black editions.

I just realised there's no gpu's listed/talked about?
If you give me a budget or what your wanting to spend on a gpu I'll advise you on the best options.

I have no idea about what GPU to get nor do I have any idea about what wattage I should get, but I'm looking at a system worth around $1500, with monitors and everything. So I'm thinking 750W should be more than sufficient.

Can you please look at my shopping list thus far and offer your critique?

What about RAM?

And are there any combos available?

You, I, everyone has the power to check combos on Newegg....just click on "combos" attached to your chosen product

As you saw above, they have GSkill Ripjaws 8gb for $89, and also Mushkin for $80 but it has a rebate. I chose not to go with rebate just in case something isnt compatible with SandyBridge, although any DDR3 RAM that is currently compatible with socket 1156 boards should work on the 1155. There is also 4gb Skill for $49, and this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146748

for $39.99. Also a Mushkin Blackline for $5 more.

All those seem like pretty cheap memory options to me at least.

Yes it is....at least the 1333 Gskill is....for $89. Its their BF sale thru tomorrow.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

PSU looks nice.....I went for the Antec 380D which was only $24.99 AR, but I'm not a gamer so there is little chance I'll need more than 380 watts as I won't be doing double GPUs, etc. May even just use SandyBridge integrated graphics......

uggghhh

The Newegg Cyber Monday sale seems really lame vs their BF sale.

I guess I'll just have to wait and watch for more deals coming on the everyday deals schedules......

Yeah like I said, the Newegg sale seems comparatively lame. I actually woke up briefly at 2:30am to see if there were any "super awesome email blast deals" like there were on Friday morning, and which I almost missed cause they sold out. There were none. The sale items seem lame. Took me almost an hour to get back to sleep. I'm a fool

I picked up the CM 212+ and the GSkill 8gb memory set over the weekend. I held off on the Windows 7 OEM at $84.99......it SEEMS that they often have combo deals with motherboards, so hopefully when its time to get the SB mobo I can effectively get at least $15.00 off the Windows price at that time.....

Still looking for my case and for a hard drive.

Actually come to think of it, SuperBiiz does have the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB right now for about $50 with a coupon code. Seems a good price. I am hemming and hawing though as I've never used SuperBiiz and there are some poor reviews of its customer svc vs Newegg. I may let it pass and hope that Newegg brings a similar discount on Samsungs sometime in the next few weeks. But I figured I'd point it out to you.

I posted in a separate thread but just picked up Win7 OEM for 74.98 plus it includes a Coolermaster 80mm fan.....maybe I can use the fan or otherwise Ebay it for a few bucks. Either way I thought $75 is probably on the lower end of pricing for Win7

There are a bunch of threads/posts with a "leaked" pricing chart for SB....just do a search here. Basically 200-216 for the 2500 and 300-317 for the 2600. Both seem reasonable to me.

I haven't seen anything on mobo pricing yet, but it appears there will be LOTS of mobos coming out (which is good for competition) and from what people say, there isn't a lot of "new cutting edge" tech on them.....similar to LGA 1156 just a little different.

I'm hoping therefore they'll be similarly priced to current mainstream offerings, hopefully in the 100-150 range for a decent board.

well i wish it was jan 11 so that i could just order the rest