- Apr 30, 2012
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It's gonna be my brother's build btw, but it's the first build that I'll be putting together
Approximate Purchase Date: Around this week. There's a deal going on for SSD's for like $18 off so before that ends
Budget Range: Up to $2000
System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming, surfing the internet, watching anime (Hi10P 1080p mkv format mostly)
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, speakers, OS
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.ca and directcanada.com
Country: Canada
Parts Preferences: Asus, Intel, Corsair PSU
Overclocking: Yes for sure if I go with sandy bridge, but if I go with ivy bridge I might need water cooling? I'd have too see the suggested heat sinks first
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe in the future. That's why I chose the 2GB model
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 I might even get a three monitors in the future
Additional Comments: Bling doesn't really matter, but if some lights would help me see into the case better I might get those, and I'm open to suggestions to make it quieter. The only thing I haven't decided on is weather to get sandy bridge or ivy bridge. What kind of cooling would I need if I wanted to overclock with ivy bridge?
I'm getting the case at directcanada because it's less and the shipping is free. On newegg the shipping put on an extra $20 or so. I'm getting the motherboard and the hyper 212 EVO from there too cause they're a little less, plus it's free shipping.
I might look around in my local stores for hard drive prices, and if those don't work out I'll get the WD drive from newegg for storing media, or I might just use an extra HDD that I have lying around.
At some point we'll mess around with overclocking once I know a little more about it.
I might mess around with ram disks too. In the future if I wanted to buy a second set of this ram for 16GB would it work alright?
With the HDD it comes out to around $1700
Anything seem overkill? I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks!
CPU: intel Core i5-2500K 1155 or Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge
CPU cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO with Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound and Arctic Silver Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600 low profile
Video card: XFX Double D HD-695X-CDFC Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Power supply: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
Drives:
OS: Plextor M3 Series PX-128M3 2.5" 128GB SATA III Internal SSD
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Case: LIAN LI Lancool PC-K62 Black 0.8 mm SECC, Plastic + Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Monitor: ASUS VS Series VS247H-P Black 23.6" 2ms LED Backlight Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50000000:1 (ASCR)
Approximate Purchase Date: Around this week. There's a deal going on for SSD's for like $18 off so before that ends
Budget Range: Up to $2000
System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming, surfing the internet, watching anime (Hi10P 1080p mkv format mostly)
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, speakers, OS
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.ca and directcanada.com
Country: Canada
Parts Preferences: Asus, Intel, Corsair PSU
Overclocking: Yes for sure if I go with sandy bridge, but if I go with ivy bridge I might need water cooling? I'd have too see the suggested heat sinks first
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe in the future. That's why I chose the 2GB model
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 I might even get a three monitors in the future
Additional Comments: Bling doesn't really matter, but if some lights would help me see into the case better I might get those, and I'm open to suggestions to make it quieter. The only thing I haven't decided on is weather to get sandy bridge or ivy bridge. What kind of cooling would I need if I wanted to overclock with ivy bridge?
I'm getting the case at directcanada because it's less and the shipping is free. On newegg the shipping put on an extra $20 or so. I'm getting the motherboard and the hyper 212 EVO from there too cause they're a little less, plus it's free shipping.
I might look around in my local stores for hard drive prices, and if those don't work out I'll get the WD drive from newegg for storing media, or I might just use an extra HDD that I have lying around.
At some point we'll mess around with overclocking once I know a little more about it.
I might mess around with ram disks too. In the future if I wanted to buy a second set of this ram for 16GB would it work alright?
With the HDD it comes out to around $1700
Anything seem overkill? I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks!
CPU: intel Core i5-2500K 1155 or Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge
CPU cooler: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO with Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound and Arctic Silver Thermal material Remover & Surface Purifier
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600 low profile
Video card: XFX Double D HD-695X-CDFC Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Power supply: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply
Drives:
OS: Plextor M3 Series PX-128M3 2.5" 128GB SATA III Internal SSD
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Case: LIAN LI Lancool PC-K62 Black 0.8 mm SECC, Plastic + Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Monitor: ASUS VS Series VS247H-P Black 23.6" 2ms LED Backlight Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 50000000:1 (ASCR)
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