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Approximate Purchase Date: Preferably soon. I can wait... but I'd like a computer soon.
Budget Range: Under 2000$ after taxes, shipping costs, rebates ...etc
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Probably like 90% gaming, 10% Surfing the web
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, Maybe not a PSU
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg.ca (eh!) NCIX.com, any other canadian site...
Country: Canada
Parts Preferences: Intel... Unless AMD has some sort of amazing hidden secret parts I've been completely missing.
Overclocking: Simple CPU overclocking
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, haven't decided yet... need advice!
Monitor Resolution: All depends on the GPU I pick although it'll have to be a <300$ monitor
Additional Comments:
I'm 15 and have been using my moms computer for the past 4 years. She purchased it as a family computer for everyone to use and I've thrown in some parts to help turn it from a POS into a mild (very mild) gaming PC. It has served it's purpose over the years surfing websites, playing MW2, Killing Floor, MW3 (with some stutter). Since I have been the primary user of this computer, I've been changing file names and cleaning things up and my mom continually yells at me saying it isn't mine and I have no right to be messing with it... I'm fed up with this and I'm looking to purchase my own computer that can actually be "my computer".
All right, so I've picked out most of the parts already but I really don't trust my own uneducated choices and I'm looking for help and suggestions on better and cheaper parts...
Here's what i'm currently looking at:
Case: 160$
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower
Power Supply: 220$ (I already have a 700W Rocketfish PSU I bought at futureshop awhile back... Should I reuse it instead of buying this???)
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSA00-80GAD3-US 1000W
RAM: 90$
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Power Supply + RAM Combo: 262$
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSA00-80GAD3-US 1000W & G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CPU: i7-2600k 330$... I've been noticing people saying 2500k is a much better deal. ???
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core
CPU cooling: 40$ Is this necessary?
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: 13$
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM
Motherboard: 270$ Is this overkill?
ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68
GPU: 0$ Radeon HD 5770 (My current GPU)
I realise it'll become the serious bottleneck but I think I'm going to wait for the 28nm GPU's from both Nvidia and AMD to start rolling before I drain money on an expensive GPU. No?
SSD: 120$ 64gb
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
HDD: ???$ I have no idea what hard drive to get any more thanks to the ridiculously high prices. AHHHH!
???
Optical Drive: 23$
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
Operating system: 110$ (future upgrades to 32gb RAM 4 x 8gb made impossible by home premium)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM
One other question I have is whether or not a Multi-monitor set up (Eyefinity, Nvidia Surround) is really worth consideration when I'm buying the real GPU in a few months.
woah, this is getting long. All help, tips and suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!
Approximate Purchase Date: Preferably soon. I can wait... but I'd like a computer soon.
Budget Range: Under 2000$ after taxes, shipping costs, rebates ...etc
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Probably like 90% gaming, 10% Surfing the web
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, Maybe not a PSU
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg.ca (eh!) NCIX.com, any other canadian site...
Country: Canada
Parts Preferences: Intel... Unless AMD has some sort of amazing hidden secret parts I've been completely missing.
Overclocking: Simple CPU overclocking
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, haven't decided yet... need advice!
Monitor Resolution: All depends on the GPU I pick although it'll have to be a <300$ monitor
Additional Comments:
I'm 15 and have been using my moms computer for the past 4 years. She purchased it as a family computer for everyone to use and I've thrown in some parts to help turn it from a POS into a mild (very mild) gaming PC. It has served it's purpose over the years surfing websites, playing MW2, Killing Floor, MW3 (with some stutter). Since I have been the primary user of this computer, I've been changing file names and cleaning things up and my mom continually yells at me saying it isn't mine and I have no right to be messing with it... I'm fed up with this and I'm looking to purchase my own computer that can actually be "my computer".
All right, so I've picked out most of the parts already but I really don't trust my own uneducated choices and I'm looking for help and suggestions on better and cheaper parts...
Here's what i'm currently looking at:
Case: 160$
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower
Power Supply: 220$ (I already have a 700W Rocketfish PSU I bought at futureshop awhile back... Should I reuse it instead of buying this???)
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSA00-80GAD3-US 1000W
RAM: 90$
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Power Supply + RAM Combo: 262$
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro Gold Series RSA00-80GAD3-US 1000W & G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
CPU: i7-2600k 330$... I've been noticing people saying 2500k is a much better deal. ???
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core
CPU cooling: 40$ Is this necessary?
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: 13$
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM
Motherboard: 270$ Is this overkill?
ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68
GPU: 0$ Radeon HD 5770 (My current GPU)
I realise it'll become the serious bottleneck but I think I'm going to wait for the 28nm GPU's from both Nvidia and AMD to start rolling before I drain money on an expensive GPU. No?
SSD: 120$ 64gb
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
HDD: ???$ I have no idea what hard drive to get any more thanks to the ridiculously high prices. AHHHH!
???
Optical Drive: 23$
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
Operating system: 110$ (future upgrades to 32gb RAM 4 x 8gb made impossible by home premium)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM
One other question I have is whether or not a Multi-monitor set up (Eyefinity, Nvidia Surround) is really worth consideration when I'm buying the real GPU in a few months.
woah, this is getting long. All help, tips and suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!