New pc for gaming/development - up to $2000

[fatal_2]

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Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP
Budget Range: 1800-2000 Before Rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming 70%, Development 30% (Visual Studio, Eclipse etc)
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, OS
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: For the sake of this question, lets say newegg.com (even though I can't actually order from there)
Country of Origin: Australia
Parts Preferences: by brand or type Sandy Bridge CPU + Second Generation Sandforce SSD
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments: Quiet would be nice!
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Hi,

I'm looking for some help to build a new PC. I'm looking at getting something along the lines of:

PSU: 750W SilverStone ST75F-P
Motherboard: ASRock Z68-EXTREME4
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500k
RAM: KINGSTON 8GB Kit HyperX T1 1600Mhz DDR3
HDD: Corsair Force Series 3 CSSD-F240GB3-BK

Although that's about as far as I've gotten.

If there are any decent affordable 27" monitors capable of 2560x1440 resolution, I'd like to include that in the build, otherwise I will stick with my current 22" monitor.

Is anybody able to help me flesh this out?

 

[xrodney]

2560x1440 are very rare, mostly you will find just 2560x1600 and both are all but not cheap, they are in 900$+ range.

 

[cmadrid]

HDD: Samsung Spinpoint f3 1TB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185142&cm_re=scythe-_-35-185-142-_-Product

or, if you want a really high end heatsink

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018&Tpk=nh%20d14

case:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163173&cm_re=raven_rv02-e-_-11-163-173-_-Product

that case is $11 cheaper and has free shipping on amazon tho.. make sure and shop around when you do order

 

[fatal_2]

2560x1440 are very rare, mostly you will find just 2560x1600 and both are all but not cheap, they are in 900$+ range.

Sorry for being so specific (and wrong). I should have just said 'anything above 1920x1200) but sounds like there isn't anything yet that is affordable.

 

[gametstr]

For GPU look at 2x HD 6950 2GBs
or 2x 560Ti

My choice would be the 6950s coz they 'd outperform the 560 Ti if u were to upgrade to that higher res monitors at a later time.

Good luck.

 

[fatal_2]

For GPU look at 2x HD 6950 2GBs
or 2x 560Ti

My choice would be the 6950s coz they 'd outperform the 560 Ti if u were to upgrade to that higher res monitors at a later time.

Good luck.

I was wondering about AMD vs NVidia graphics card.. are the PhysX features of the GForce compelling enough to make me choose that over the radeon?

 

[gametstr]

Sorry I am dumb about physX, maybe some one else can address that,
all I know is that for gaming at higher resoultions (like 2560 X 1600) The Radeons (6950 2GBs)are better than the nvidia cards for about the same price.

 

[fatal_2]

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