Memory, Hard Drive, And Optical Drive
Memory: GeIL Black Dragon 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR3-1333 Memory Kit
We’re trying something new in the memory department, too. GeIL’s Black Dragon dual-channel 4 GB kit has a low $80 price tag combined with a low CAS latency of 7. The tribal art treatment doesn’t look bad, either.
Read Customer Reviews of GeIL's Black Dragon 4 GB DDR3-1333 Kit
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 750 GB
Read Customer Reviews of Western Digital's Caviar Black 750 GB
A price tag of $70 isn’t going to buy you anything better than this when it comes to hard drives. Western Digital’s Black series has been a price/performance favorite, ever since we began the SBM series. And 750 GB of capacity is enough to get you started.
Optical Drive: OEM LG GH22LS50 22x DVD Burner
Read Customer Reviews of LG's GH22LS50 DVD Burner
LG’s OEM optical drive performs well, and for the low $18 price tag, it helps keep us under our $1000 budget limit.
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I can't say I'm impressed this time. You should never have went with a clarksdale, they are simply bad. Getting a more reasonably priced motherboard, cutting another $20 from the HDD and PSU, and an i5 750, would have been much better.
Still, we have more information than before so I can't complain.
That PSU only has 2 PCI-E hook ups. So you'll have to use adapters in this build. Pathetic.
yeah I agree with AMW1011, but it is pretty solid. Too bad only US residents can participate
The CPU choice was a little disappointing this time around. A Core i5 or even a comparably priced AMD processor would have done much better (especially in productivity because four cores are typically better than two).
I think it would be good to include previous build in the test system page it would make comparison easier.
1 tb 7200.12 hard drive?
GTX 570? (debatable)
Cheaper motherboard, maybe not supporting SLI if gtx 570 is taken over 460 sli?
$50 corsair ddr3 1600?
i5 760 with these savings?
I think we're missing the point of including the Core i3 in this month's build. The purpose was to explore the CPU bottle-necking that can be observed on today's common applications because threading implementation has managed to find itself actually put into effect. Throwing in an i5 760 would have been too predictable and too boring. This puts perspective on the fact that dual-cores matched with high clock speeds are no longer the performance kings as was true more than a year ago.
Tom's nvidia -line continues. No surprises there.
like they said in the previous article even the 6000 series radeons weren't out when they made these articles,
reading comprehensions noobs
*comprehension
Not impressed, could have been better.
add space is getting out of control on this site.
worst i3 overclock ever. And a 750gb wd black? Waste! You could get a faster 1tb samsung for less.
I normally enjoy these builds, but this is among the worst I've seen. For ~$10 you probably could have gotten a ddr3 1600 kit, not to mention money could have been saved on the motherboard. And with a measly 4ghz overclock, you can probably return the aftermarket cooler and get your money back.
like they said in the previous article even the 6000 series radeons weren't out when they made these articles,reading comprehensions noobs
derp
nice
Two GTX 460s... with a dual-core... serious?
...Cable...Management...
a dual-core i3 eh? Why not have tried a dual-core i5-655k? I know, more expensive... but I know some people out there may see "i5" and think that they are all the same. (n00bs, who haven't educated themselves yet.)
The Intel Core i5-655K Clarkdale 3.2GHz LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Unlocked Desktop Processor ( NewEgg p/n BX80616I5655K ) is the same price as the Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor ( NewEgg p/n BX80605I5750 ) at the time of this post.
I enjoyed this build, i don't see the sense in always using the same CPU, case,GPU combos. By changing to the i5, using the NZXT case, the 460 1GB in SLI you give your readers something different to consider and not the same old, same old. Good work and good builds in both the $2,000 and $1,000 SBMs.