My friend saved up two months salary right out of college to build his first gaming computer to play SCII. This is what I helped him pick out on St. Patrick's Day and built on 3/22/11 on Tuesday thanks to Newegg's awesome 3 business day shipping.
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 = $130
Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54 AM3 = $95
Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB = $45 with 10% discount at the time
GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1371-TR GeForce GTX 460 = $160 It was 160 and has 20 dollar rebate
HDD: Caviar Black 640 gb = $55
PSU: Antec 550W Modular = $65
Case: Used Antec 900 case = $50
OS: Win7 Home Premium x64 = $30
So what do you guys/gals think of what I picked out for him. He didn't want to spend extra for the the phenom ii x4 which was $20 then, but is $140 and .2GHz faster. He also opted out of the thuban or sandybridge which would of been the 2400k. The motherboard would of been at least $150 and less features. He will not overclock at all so getting a black edition is just in case if he changes his mind.
I also couldn't recommend AMD/ATI radeon 5770 which would of been cheaper and similar performance because my brother had an ATI card that was a nightmare messing with drivers for SCII to work over Christmas break. I hope future drivers will be better since I do like the bang for your buck.
Overall, it took us less than 3 hours to assemble, but this is the first system that I primarily put together since my first gaming computer had two friends helping to assemble. Thanks for any opinions.
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 = $130
Motherboard: MSI 870A-G54 AM3 = $95
Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB = $45 with 10% discount at the time
GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1371-TR GeForce GTX 460 = $160 It was 160 and has 20 dollar rebate
HDD: Caviar Black 640 gb = $55
PSU: Antec 550W Modular = $65
Case: Used Antec 900 case = $50
OS: Win7 Home Premium x64 = $30
So what do you guys/gals think of what I picked out for him. He didn't want to spend extra for the the phenom ii x4 which was $20 then, but is $140 and .2GHz faster. He also opted out of the thuban or sandybridge which would of been the 2400k. The motherboard would of been at least $150 and less features. He will not overclock at all so getting a black edition is just in case if he changes his mind.
I also couldn't recommend AMD/ATI radeon 5770 which would of been cheaper and similar performance because my brother had an ATI card that was a nightmare messing with drivers for SCII to work over Christmas break. I hope future drivers will be better since I do like the bang for your buck.
Overall, it took us less than 3 hours to assemble, but this is the first system that I primarily put together since my first gaming computer had two friends helping to assemble. Thanks for any opinions.
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