I am building a gaming PC. High quality gaming. Ultra Settings on BF3, Crysis 2, etc. Hopefully you can help me with ideas or give me opinions on my current semi-build.
Approximate Purchase Date: Sadly, its not set in stone. Hopefully within the next few months.
Budget Range: 1000 ~ 1500, depending on work situation. 1750 is probably the highest I can pay.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Graphic Design, Internet.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, Speakers, Mouse, Keyboard, possibly OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg.com for most parts, TigerDirect for specific parts if I am unable to buy separate, rather than a combo on NewEgg.
Country: USA. Building in my own house.
Parts Preferences: I'm looking more towards Intel lately. nVidia graphics preferred.
Overclocking: Possibly
SLI or Crossfire: SLI, if possible.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080.
Additional Comments: Preferably a nice case with expandability. Good heat management would be nice, too.
A few questions I have are about RAM and PCI slots.
In the specs for the motherboard I chose, it has Dual Channel support, but 4x240 slots. Would I be able to put in 4 sticks of ram, without limiting my system?
What does '(single at x16, dual at x8)' mean, exactly?
Parts I have picked out, but would like opinions on.
EVGA 01G-P3-1561-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi)
(Two of these for possible SLI. (Thanks to azeem40))
G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
(Thanks to azeem40 again.)
Intel Core i5-2500K BX80623I52500 Unlocked Processor - Quad Core
(Unless a better option is given, within 200 dollars of this.)
Approximate Purchase Date: Sadly, its not set in stone. Hopefully within the next few months.
Budget Range: 1000 ~ 1500, depending on work situation. 1750 is probably the highest I can pay.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Graphic Design, Internet.
Parts Not Required: Monitor, Speakers, Mouse, Keyboard, possibly OS.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg.com for most parts, TigerDirect for specific parts if I am unable to buy separate, rather than a combo on NewEgg.
Country: USA. Building in my own house.
Parts Preferences: I'm looking more towards Intel lately. nVidia graphics preferred.
Overclocking: Possibly
SLI or Crossfire: SLI, if possible.
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080.
Additional Comments: Preferably a nice case with expandability. Good heat management would be nice, too.
A few questions I have are about RAM and PCI slots.
In the specs for the motherboard I chose, it has Dual Channel support, but 4x240 slots. Would I be able to put in 4 sticks of ram, without limiting my system?
What does '(single at x16, dual at x8)' mean, exactly?
Parts I have picked out, but would like opinions on.
EVGA 01G-P3-1561-KR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi)
(Two of these for possible SLI. (Thanks to azeem40))
G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
(Thanks to azeem40 again.)
Intel Core i5-2500K BX80623I52500 Unlocked Processor - Quad Core
(Unless a better option is given, within 200 dollars of this.)
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