Approximate Purchase Date: Late June early July
Budget Range: Under $1300 After Rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, programming, internet and maybe some smaller graphic design or possibly simple 3d modeling
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, monitor
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com
Country: Amurrica?
Parts Preferences: Personally I have just found nvidia to be smoother than AMD but I think my AMD was sort of a lemon so willing to give another try.
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Most likely not
Monitor Resolution: High, not quite sure yet.
Additional Comments: This is my very first time building my own PC but I will most likely have a friend who has done so before with me during the building to insure I don't mess up xD
Also, I don't know anything about what may or may not be compatible with each other and what wattage I need so general tips would be useful as well ^_^
I am going to college at the end of August and I am planning on going with a desktop and a budget notebook (taking a 2000 dollar budget and splitting between the desktop and laptop; Any comments on this? Personal anecdotes or just general opinions all happily accepted.
So far what I have guesstimated:
Case: ----------- :
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0, Black Interior and Four Fans
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160
Hard Drive: -------- :
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Video Card: -------- :
EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130687
Optical Drive: ---------- :
LITE-ON Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDS118-04 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106276
Power Supply: -------- :
OCZ Fatal1ty 750W Modular Gaming 80Plus Bronze Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341041
Motherboard: ------- :
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
CPU: ---------- :
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K
Bundled with
RAM: --------- :
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
URL:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.888091
Would it be smarter to simply wait until i5-3750k and get that instead of the i7-2600k?
This comes out to ~1200 after rebate
Will all of this work together? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Budget Range: Under $1300 After Rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, programming, internet and maybe some smaller graphic design or possibly simple 3d modeling
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, monitor
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com
Country: Amurrica?
Parts Preferences: Personally I have just found nvidia to be smoother than AMD but I think my AMD was sort of a lemon so willing to give another try.
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: Most likely not
Monitor Resolution: High, not quite sure yet.
Additional Comments: This is my very first time building my own PC but I will most likely have a friend who has done so before with me during the building to insure I don't mess up xD
Also, I don't know anything about what may or may not be compatible with each other and what wattage I need so general tips would be useful as well ^_^
I am going to college at the end of August and I am planning on going with a desktop and a budget notebook (taking a 2000 dollar budget and splitting between the desktop and laptop; Any comments on this? Personal anecdotes or just general opinions all happily accepted.
So far what I have guesstimated:
Case: ----------- :
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case with USB 3.0, Black Interior and Four Fans
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160
Hard Drive: -------- :
Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
Video Card: -------- :
EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130687
Optical Drive: ---------- :
LITE-ON Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDS118-04 - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106276
Power Supply: -------- :
OCZ Fatal1ty 750W Modular Gaming 80Plus Bronze Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341041
Motherboard: ------- :
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
CPU: ---------- :
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I72600K
Bundled with
RAM: --------- :
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B
URL:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.888091
Would it be smarter to simply wait until i5-3750k and get that instead of the i7-2600k?
This comes out to ~1200 after rebate
Will all of this work together? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated