My budget is a mere $300 .. Luckily, I've got most other items (Case, PSU, HDD, etc.) taken care of. My current PSU is a Coolmax M-500B 500W and should suffice.
I'm looking to order this week, preferably from Amazon (as they actually provide free shipping to Alaska (USA) -- unlike Newegg) but I don't mind ordering from multiple places if the cost+shipping is less than Amazon.
The system will mainly be used for gaming (WoW, Skyrim, SW:TOR). Getting a stable 60fps on Ultra settings would be nice, but it is not a necessity.
I've always been a fan of AMD, and from what I'm seeing they're the brand to go with when on a limited budget. Intel seems to run about twice the price for the same GHz/cores, and as much as I'd love the extra power, it's not likely that I'll be able to go with an Intel setup.. but if it's possible, let's do it!
Overclocking is a maybe.. I'm not really interested in running Memtest for hours on end and I don't feel the need to push hardware to its limits.
I'd like to keep the possibility of SLI open, but for now I'm just going to throw in my Radeon HD 4550 until I can look at getting a new video card.
My current case is microATX, but I do have a larger case if there's a better deal on a different size of motherboard.
I've been doing a little bit of browsing on Newegg, though I'm flying blind as to what's good and what's crap these days...
My AMD build would be the AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition Deneb 3.6GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core with a MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.
My Intel build would be an Intel Core i5-2300 Sandy Bridge 2.8GHz LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core with a GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S2H LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard.
RAM would likely be Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333 or possibly CORSAIR XMS3 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1333
I'm not dead-set on any of these choices.. they're just what I found that were within my budget.
I'm looking to order this week, preferably from Amazon (as they actually provide free shipping to Alaska (USA) -- unlike Newegg) but I don't mind ordering from multiple places if the cost+shipping is less than Amazon.
The system will mainly be used for gaming (WoW, Skyrim, SW:TOR). Getting a stable 60fps on Ultra settings would be nice, but it is not a necessity.
I've always been a fan of AMD, and from what I'm seeing they're the brand to go with when on a limited budget. Intel seems to run about twice the price for the same GHz/cores, and as much as I'd love the extra power, it's not likely that I'll be able to go with an Intel setup.. but if it's possible, let's do it!
Overclocking is a maybe.. I'm not really interested in running Memtest for hours on end and I don't feel the need to push hardware to its limits.
I'd like to keep the possibility of SLI open, but for now I'm just going to throw in my Radeon HD 4550 until I can look at getting a new video card.
My current case is microATX, but I do have a larger case if there's a better deal on a different size of motherboard.
I've been doing a little bit of browsing on Newegg, though I'm flying blind as to what's good and what's crap these days...
My AMD build would be the AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition Deneb 3.6GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core with a MSI 880GM-E41 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.
My Intel build would be an Intel Core i5-2300 Sandy Bridge 2.8GHz LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core with a GIGABYTE GA-H61M-S2H LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard.
RAM would likely be Crucial 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333 or possibly CORSAIR XMS3 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1333
I'm not dead-set on any of these choices.. they're just what I found that were within my budget.
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