Approximate Purchase Date: Acquiring parts between now and early January
Budget: <$1100 after rebates.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games, programming, general snappy computing.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, speakers, OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Microcenter (within driving distance)
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: AMD graphics.
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe as an upgrade down the line. I would prefer to start with a single GPU setup.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments: My monitor does not support HDCP, so I won't be needing a Blu-Ray player. I have an eSATA backup drive, so I definitely want a motherboard that supports that.
I'm looking to build a solid, reasonably well balanced system that can game well at 1920x1200 and be very responsive in general. If it turns out Intel left a lot of headroom on the lower spec i5s, I'll go with one of those instead of the K. I've already bought the case, PSU and H50.
I'd like to put the H50 in a push-pull configuration, but I really don't know where to start for an extra fan for it.
Currently looking at something like this:
CPU: i5 2500K ~$225
Motherboard: Gigabyte P67-UD4 ~$160
RAM: Crucial 2x2GB DDR3-1333 CAS 9 CT2KIT25664BA1339 $52
GPU: XFX Radeon 6950 $300
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB $60
SSD: Microcenter's store SSD (rebranded A-Data 64 GB Sandforce drive) $100
Optical: Samsung S223F $18
Case: Antec 300 Illusion $65->$45 after rebate
Cooling: Corsair H50 $72->$57 after rebate
PSU: Antec True Power New TP-550 $81->$61 after rebate
Total ~$1133, ~$1078 after rebates.
Budget: <$1100 after rebates.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games, programming, general snappy computing.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, speakers, OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Microcenter (within driving distance)
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: AMD graphics.
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe as an upgrade down the line. I would prefer to start with a single GPU setup.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments: My monitor does not support HDCP, so I won't be needing a Blu-Ray player. I have an eSATA backup drive, so I definitely want a motherboard that supports that.
I'm looking to build a solid, reasonably well balanced system that can game well at 1920x1200 and be very responsive in general. If it turns out Intel left a lot of headroom on the lower spec i5s, I'll go with one of those instead of the K. I've already bought the case, PSU and H50.
I'd like to put the H50 in a push-pull configuration, but I really don't know where to start for an extra fan for it.
Currently looking at something like this:
CPU: i5 2500K ~$225
Motherboard: Gigabyte P67-UD4 ~$160
RAM: Crucial 2x2GB DDR3-1333 CAS 9 CT2KIT25664BA1339 $52
GPU: XFX Radeon 6950 $300
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB $60
SSD: Microcenter's store SSD (rebranded A-Data 64 GB Sandforce drive) $100
Optical: Samsung S223F $18
Case: Antec 300 Illusion $65->$45 after rebate
Cooling: Corsair H50 $72->$57 after rebate
PSU: Antec True Power New TP-550 $81->$61 after rebate
Total ~$1133, ~$1078 after rebates.