Approximate Purchase Date: Variable. This week if it's a good time to buy, otherwise I might wait if doing so would be beneficial. My harddrive on my 4-year old vista PC is dying, so I've already bought the HDD (for $100).
Budget Range: $500 or less (including purchasing Windows 7 Home Premium).
System Usage from Most to Least Important: HDTV Recording and play back, Photo editing, Gaming (mostly strategy games like Anno 1404), Programming, Office, internet.
Parts Not Required:
■ 1) Keyboard, mouse, monitors, speakers
■ 2) HDD (Seagate 7200.12 1TB [ST31000524AS])
■ 3) GPU (2 year old HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 512MB)
■ 4) PSU (2 year old Corsair VX550W - 550 watts 41A 12v rail)
■ 5) WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card
■ 6) External USB DVD/RW Drive. Could I use this instead of buying an internal one? i.e. can the BIOS/UEFI (and/or OS) boot to the drive? I'm planning on giving away my old PC (putting the original PSU and GPU back in it) so I won't have the internal drive to reuse. I believe this is the one I have: Sony DRX-820UL/T)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any reputable site
Country: USA
Parts Preferences:
■ 1) INTEL CPU
■ 2) UEFI Motherboard to make 3TB+ drives easy to use in the future, unless this is expensive to have now
■ 3) Prefer case large enough for easy upgrades (i.e. 2nd harddrive, 2nd tv tuner card, etc).
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: No
Monitor Resolution: 1680x1050 (main), 1920x1080 (occasionally use TV)
Additional Comments: This is the first whole computer I would be putting together, so nothing too complicated. I try to stretch getting a new PC every 4-5 years.
Budget Range: $500 or less (including purchasing Windows 7 Home Premium).
System Usage from Most to Least Important: HDTV Recording and play back, Photo editing, Gaming (mostly strategy games like Anno 1404), Programming, Office, internet.
Parts Not Required:
■ 1) Keyboard, mouse, monitors, speakers
■ 2) HDD (Seagate 7200.12 1TB [ST31000524AS])
■ 3) GPU (2 year old HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 512MB)
■ 4) PSU (2 year old Corsair VX550W - 550 watts 41A 12v rail)
■ 5) WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI card
■ 6) External USB DVD/RW Drive. Could I use this instead of buying an internal one? i.e. can the BIOS/UEFI (and/or OS) boot to the drive? I'm planning on giving away my old PC (putting the original PSU and GPU back in it) so I won't have the internal drive to reuse. I believe this is the one I have: Sony DRX-820UL/T)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any reputable site
Country: USA
Parts Preferences:
■ 1) INTEL CPU
■ 2) UEFI Motherboard to make 3TB+ drives easy to use in the future, unless this is expensive to have now
■ 3) Prefer case large enough for easy upgrades (i.e. 2nd harddrive, 2nd tv tuner card, etc).
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: No
Monitor Resolution: 1680x1050 (main), 1920x1080 (occasionally use TV)
Additional Comments: This is the first whole computer I would be putting together, so nothing too complicated. I try to stretch getting a new PC every 4-5 years.
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