Approximate Purchase Date: Within 2 weeks, no greater.
Budget Range: Around $1000 (not including monitors/os) after rebates, somewhat flexible though if spending a bit more makes a substantial difference.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: I'm starting to take trading (stock market) more serious, so I'd like to have at least 3 monitors. I'm also looking into affliate marketing so I need the ability to have many browser windows open with multiple tabs. I would like the ability to be able to play hd video from it, so I could watch it on my lcd tv (most comps should do this easily I'm sure.) I don't game at all really, so that's not very important.
Parts Not Required: 1 Monitors, Already own a copy of win 7.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Not partial, best price if it's a reliable website (I live by a micro center.)
Country: United States.
Parts Preferences: No allegiance to any particular brand or type, whatever works best for the money I suppose.
Overclocking: Maybe, I'm not sure it will be necessary if I'm not gaming, but if it's easy enough maybe.
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, It might be nice to have 4 monitors at some point in the future, but 3 should be ok for now. Is there any other good reason to go for this over eyefinity? It seems more expensive.
Monitor Resolution: Right now I only have one monitor I will be using and it's 1920x1080, others should be similar.
Additional Comments: Like I said this is my first build, and I'm not at all completley caught up on all the new technologies out there in the computer world. One of my main concerns is making sure I can sucessfully run 3 different monitors. I've lurked this forum a little bit, and I have a few parts I've looked into, and would love feedback on them. I'm open to any good suggestion on this build, thanks!
Processor - too overclock or not to overclock?
Core i5 2500K LGA 1155 Boxed Processor
Core i5 2400 LGA 1155 Boxed Processor
Motherboard - I'm not too familiar with what to look for, but it seems like people like this..should I be worried it has only one pci express 16 slot for future expansion?
ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Videocard - Will this work for 3 monitors? Do I have to worry about different types of monitors(will be using modern lcd/leds) any other suggestions?
SAPPHIRE FleX 100314FLEX Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Storage/ssd - Was thinking about finding an old hdd until prices come down. This ssd seems to be well liked on this forum, but my friend mentioned that it doesn't use PCI express 16 which supposedly makes it faster?? Should I get a 128gb ssd?
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Memory - Saw this memory mentioned on here in passing, I think it works with the above chip-set, any other recommendation appreciated.
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
Case/PS - A friend mentioned this in passing, but after reading around here for a bit it looks like case/ps combos are frowned upon..any help would be great.
Thermaltake V2 10-Bay ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case w/450W 20+4-pin PSU (Black)
Any suggestions on memory/case/power supply/drives/etc, would be great. I'm open to changing anything in this set-up that will help improve it, I definitely trust this forums expertise over mine! Thanks for reading this long post!
Budget Range: Around $1000 (not including monitors/os) after rebates, somewhat flexible though if spending a bit more makes a substantial difference.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: I'm starting to take trading (stock market) more serious, so I'd like to have at least 3 monitors. I'm also looking into affliate marketing so I need the ability to have many browser windows open with multiple tabs. I would like the ability to be able to play hd video from it, so I could watch it on my lcd tv (most comps should do this easily I'm sure.) I don't game at all really, so that's not very important.
Parts Not Required: 1 Monitors, Already own a copy of win 7.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Not partial, best price if it's a reliable website (I live by a micro center.)
Country: United States.
Parts Preferences: No allegiance to any particular brand or type, whatever works best for the money I suppose.
Overclocking: Maybe, I'm not sure it will be necessary if I'm not gaming, but if it's easy enough maybe.
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, It might be nice to have 4 monitors at some point in the future, but 3 should be ok for now. Is there any other good reason to go for this over eyefinity? It seems more expensive.
Monitor Resolution: Right now I only have one monitor I will be using and it's 1920x1080, others should be similar.
Additional Comments: Like I said this is my first build, and I'm not at all completley caught up on all the new technologies out there in the computer world. One of my main concerns is making sure I can sucessfully run 3 different monitors. I've lurked this forum a little bit, and I have a few parts I've looked into, and would love feedback on them. I'm open to any good suggestion on this build, thanks!
Processor - too overclock or not to overclock?
Core i5 2500K LGA 1155 Boxed Processor
Core i5 2400 LGA 1155 Boxed Processor
Motherboard - I'm not too familiar with what to look for, but it seems like people like this..should I be worried it has only one pci express 16 slot for future expansion?
ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Videocard - Will this work for 3 monitors? Do I have to worry about different types of monitors(will be using modern lcd/leds) any other suggestions?
SAPPHIRE FleX 100314FLEX Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Storage/ssd - Was thinking about finding an old hdd until prices come down. This ssd seems to be well liked on this forum, but my friend mentioned that it doesn't use PCI express 16 which supposedly makes it faster?? Should I get a 128gb ssd?
Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Memory - Saw this memory mentioned on here in passing, I think it works with the above chip-set, any other recommendation appreciated.
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
Case/PS - A friend mentioned this in passing, but after reading around here for a bit it looks like case/ps combos are frowned upon..any help would be great.
Thermaltake V2 10-Bay ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case w/450W 20+4-pin PSU (Black)
Any suggestions on memory/case/power supply/drives/etc, would be great. I'm open to changing anything in this set-up that will help improve it, I definitely trust this forums expertise over mine! Thanks for reading this long post!
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