Approximate Purchase Date: This week or around here.
Budget Range: ~500-600 pre-rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming.
Parts Not Required: Case (Have a Full-Size Armor Case already.), Power supply (I forget brand but its ~700w gaming power supply I bought a little while ago.), I'm going to reuse harddrives/DVD drive and I have a cheap old sound card that surprisingly still works well (Some type of Creative card.) Clearly already have mouse/keyboard.
I really only need the big 4, Mobo, CPU, Memory, Video Card.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: I'd prefer newegg but the taxes hurt. So Tigerdirect/Amazon are probably better for me.
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences:
CPU- i5 2500k - Tigerdirect has a deal going for $200.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1378560&sku=I69-0003
Video Card - HD 6870 - Amazon has a deal going for 169.99 + $20 mail in rebate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C31F2M/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
MoBo - GIGABYTE GA-Z68P-DS3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s ATX Intel Motherboard - Decent Reviews on Newegg, on sale, has what I mostly need (NO USB 3.0 but I don't think that is going to hurt me much. Only 2 sata drives. Only supports Crossfire (Which is okay, given I'd go with HD 6870)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128520
Memory CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
Good memory, I've always used Corsair and never had a problem and will not use anything else. I got it at Newegg because it has free shipping, and the taxes are less than 4 bucks, which is less than shipping at other sites. Comes around around the same price and I prefer newegg anyway.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233180
I've got this all around 500 bucks right now, with the rebates. I'm probably only going to keep 4gb of the 8 gb and give 4 to a friend. I don't really think 8gb is necessary for a gaming rig, any thoughts on that?
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe in the future
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 +
Additional Comments: I really need the most advice on the 4 big pieces and where my bottlenecks will be. My 8800gts just went out and I've had it for 3-4 years, so it's time to upgrade some things.
I was going to go with a more expensive mobo but decided it probably won't be the bottleneck, and I'm not an avid OC'er. As long as I can go Crossfire in the future, I was happy. And as long as everything works together. IE CPU Fits the 1155 slot, and the card fits in the PCI-E slots, etc. I'm pretty sure it all fits together.
Any advice, let me know. I looked at the Geforce 560 ti and for a 10-15% performance gain I have to pay 100+ extra. That's a tough sell for me. Any arguments on if that would be worth it?
Budget Range: ~500-600 pre-rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming.
Parts Not Required: Case (Have a Full-Size Armor Case already.), Power supply (I forget brand but its ~700w gaming power supply I bought a little while ago.), I'm going to reuse harddrives/DVD drive and I have a cheap old sound card that surprisingly still works well (Some type of Creative card.) Clearly already have mouse/keyboard.
I really only need the big 4, Mobo, CPU, Memory, Video Card.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: I'd prefer newegg but the taxes hurt. So Tigerdirect/Amazon are probably better for me.
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences:
CPU- i5 2500k - Tigerdirect has a deal going for $200.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1378560&sku=I69-0003
Video Card - HD 6870 - Amazon has a deal going for 169.99 + $20 mail in rebate.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C31F2M/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
MoBo - GIGABYTE GA-Z68P-DS3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s ATX Intel Motherboard - Decent Reviews on Newegg, on sale, has what I mostly need (NO USB 3.0 but I don't think that is going to hurt me much. Only 2 sata drives. Only supports Crossfire (Which is okay, given I'd go with HD 6870)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128520
Memory CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
Good memory, I've always used Corsair and never had a problem and will not use anything else. I got it at Newegg because it has free shipping, and the taxes are less than 4 bucks, which is less than shipping at other sites. Comes around around the same price and I prefer newegg anyway.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233180
I've got this all around 500 bucks right now, with the rebates. I'm probably only going to keep 4gb of the 8 gb and give 4 to a friend. I don't really think 8gb is necessary for a gaming rig, any thoughts on that?
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe in the future
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 +
Additional Comments: I really need the most advice on the 4 big pieces and where my bottlenecks will be. My 8800gts just went out and I've had it for 3-4 years, so it's time to upgrade some things.
I was going to go with a more expensive mobo but decided it probably won't be the bottleneck, and I'm not an avid OC'er. As long as I can go Crossfire in the future, I was happy. And as long as everything works together. IE CPU Fits the 1155 slot, and the card fits in the PCI-E slots, etc. I'm pretty sure it all fits together.
Any advice, let me know. I looked at the Geforce 560 ti and for a 10-15% performance gain I have to pay 100+ extra. That's a tough sell for me. Any arguments on if that would be worth it?