Help deciding

[Dukemost]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307604-30-dell-dimension-4600-upgrade#t2067206

I just had a question after thinking about it a bit more and seeing some parts I thought I might as well wait for a bit and get a decent tower, for the price its great but after seeing a better GPU I thought I might as well take it up a notch. And save a bit more, my estimated budget would be around $700 to $800.

I found this one and thought if you recommend a better case with power supply that can handle it, also I thought about it and think spending a little bit more on a i5 processor will be worth it, since the computer will be used for gaming more than anything else. And won't really need to upgrade any sooner with a i5 than i3.

The case I was looking at was this one, the reviews on it are great and I really would love to see this as my main pc. Really love the look of it and the future upgrades to would be possible if I ever needed to.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119240

Also saw this bundle but don't know about the GPU for what I have seen its kinda the same as the R6870 Hawk.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.770956

So I would love to hear on your thoughts and I got time so no rush. For what I have hear though and correct me I am wrong but is the ivy bridge specs that I found kinda showed that the most improvement would be to the built in graphics on the i5, but not much in performance. According to what I understood on the article but to be honest I won't really be using the built in graphics just the HAWk.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Benchmarks-Intel-Ivy-Bridge-CPU-sandy-bridge,14144.html

Thanks again for your time and input.

 

[amuffin]

links do not work.

 

[Dukemost]

Ahh sorry let me find them again and repost.

 

[nikorr]

Ahh sorry let me find them again and repost.

I fixed them. They are good now.

 

[nikorr]

Ahh sorry let me find them again and repost.

$800 will get u much better animal : )

 

[Dukemost]

First link to what he had posted first for my lower budget pc.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307604-30-dell-dimension-4600-upgrade#t2067206

Second link to the Case that I would want.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119240&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=gc3trzxqeld1

This is the bundle I was looking at but don't know about it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.770956&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=1mkdinps2ushj

Here is the link for the ivy bridge specs.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.770956&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=4176827&SID=1mkdinps2ushj

Thanks again for looking.

 

[Dukemost]

Ahh lol that's good to know.

 

[nikorr]

Duke, do u know the Right column?

 

[amuffin]

Motherboard could be better, and very bad power supply.

 

[Dukemost]

oh yeah I figured it out its way easier than I thought its honestly my first time on any type of forums and this one is really easy to learn how it works.

 

[Dukemost]

Ahh that sucks cause I thought it was a good deal.

 

[nikorr]

Well, we can do better than that deal, also the mobo is Micro ATX and u can have ATX, which is better.

 

[Dukemost]

Well, we can do better than that deal, also the mobo is Micro ATX and u can have ATX, which is better.

Good i would of thought it was better to have a normal size one, by the way do you recommend getting a motherboard that support 2 gpus, cause I never looked it up, is two gpu literally 2x better than just one or is just a small performance boost.

 

[nikorr]

Good i would of thought it was better to have a normal size one, by the way do you recommend getting a motherboard that support 2 gpus, cause I never looked it up, is two gpu literally 2x better than just one or is just a small performance boost.

Well 2 @ x16 will do a better job than 1GPU, but it will increase the price. The good thing is, it does not have to be done all at once, but it is a great option to have.

 

[nikorr]

OK, first what all do u need and what do u have?

Include all that needed to be purchased so the budget is exact.

Like keyboard, mouse, ....

 

[Dukemost]

Well 2 @ x16 will do a better job than 1GPU, but it will increase the price. The good thing is, it does not have to be done all at once, but it is a great option to have.

That's true well I will stick with one then, and hopefully upgrade later on. So what do you recommend on getting like parts and stuff? For that type of GPU.

 

[Dukemost]

Okay the things I have are a keyboard, mouse, monitor display low resolution but have a 1080p hd tv that will be used when gaming. The things I have made my mind up are on the R6870 Hawk and the case from above.

 

[Dukemost]

Also forgot but i got a dvd drive so dont need that anymore, just need mobo, power supply, ram, hdd thinking of 500gb, and thinking of geting i5 i believe the 2400 one and I think that is all.

 

[nikorr]

It has good review @ http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=718&Itemid=72

 

[Dukemost]

Oh man thats good I kinda have seen what the card was capable of on youtube videos and for the price its great in my opinion.

 

[Dukemost]

Here is the processor I am thinking of getting by the way.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115074

 

[nikorr]

We should start here...
GPU MSI R6870 Hawk Radeon HD 6870 1GB
$184.99 after mail-in rebate card

CPU 2500K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
$224.99

 

[nikorr]

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel
$129.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271

 

[nikorr]

Here is the processor I am thinking of getting by the way.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115074

The 2500K is the best CPU on the market now.

Read here @ http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,review-32090.html

 

[Dukemost]

We should start here...
GPU MSI R6870 Hawk Radeon HD 6870 1GB
$184.99 after mail-in rebate card

CPU 2500K http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
$224.99

Sweet that is good to know about the processor was reading through it and seeing the specs and for the money its really good, where was that GPU for 189 bucks?