Potential New Righ

Pyro

Pyro

TD Admin
So I'm looking to build a new computer since my old single core is pretty shabby now. My goal is to spend under $1000, but prolly gonna go a bit over. here is what I am looking at so far:


RAM corsair XMS3 4gb 1600MHz - 54.99
CPU i5-2500k sandy bridges 1155 - 234.99
MOBO ASUS P8P67 1155 - 161.99
SSD OCZ vertex 2 80gb - 169.99
CASE cooler master HAF 932 - 129.99
PSU ANTEC TP-750 Blue Truepower 750W - 119.99
GPU GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 249.99
HDD seagate barracuda 2TB - 89.99

TOTAL = $1212
+15% tax
=$1393.8

any thoughts/recommendations? i would like to drop the price a bit. so far all i've thought of is a cheaper psu and i could settle for less GBs on the SSD. not gonna be doing dual video cards since i think it is a waste of money for the performance increase when new video cards come out every 6 months anyway
 
OG buckshot jr

OG buckshot jr

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My only recommendation is this: Since you're like me, and you don't upgrade every so often (I like to hold out, make my shit last too), I would buy an i7 over an i5. The 930 can be had for $300, or just under, which is only ~$60 more. Save your 2TB for another time purchase, and use your current HDD for data. Never throw parts away ;)

As for RAM, shop for 6GB tripple channel, might even be cheaper, and more effective if you upgrade to 12GB. I'll shop for you, and see what's up.

List me some stores you shop at, so I can look.
 
Narf!

Narf!

TD Admin
[quote1299009849=OG buckshot jr]
My only recommendation is this: Since you're like me, and you don't upgrade every so often (I like to hold out, make my shit last too), I would buy an i7 over an i5. The 930 can be had for $300, or just under, which is only ~$60 more. Save your 2TB for another time purchase, and use your current HDD for data. Never throw parts away ;)

As for RAM, shop for 6GB tripple channel, might even be cheaper, and more effective if you upgrade to 12GB. I'll shop for you, and see what's up.

List me some stores you shop at, so I can look.
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LOL he wants to shave some $$ off, not add more.



My recommendation would be to get a 10KRPM Raptor or something instead of the SSD and the regular HDD. Also, get a cheaper vid. card -- something from the 400 series instead of the newest ones? Those two changes alone should save you 150+

EDIT: I don't know how much pr0n you need to transfer onto your new machine or what your overall storage is like, but my 300GB 10kRPM Velociraptor is plenty for my PC and it costs ~$150. A GTX 460 would be ~$200. Those two changes would save you a lot.

SSD is cool, but over-rated, and you're going to install your OS on it so that pretty much only means you'll have very fast boot-up times, but if all your games are going to be installed on the Seagate, you're still reading data from it at a slower rate -- and that, will be your limiting reagent (chem reference for all you science geeks). Unless you can afford to buy a lot of SSD storage, I'd hold out on it. BTW, I'm using said 10kRPM velociraptor, and my boot-up time is ~30 sec. from hitting the power button to being able to hit the Start button to start Vent or WoW.
 
dead mike

dead mike

TD Member, Legend, Puncher of Faces, Chatbox King
i would go for 8 gigs of ram, i dont know if your memory is the right pairng but maybe you could get ddr3 1333 save 20-30 dollars ...

Intel SSD 80GB is the same price (http://www.bewawa.com/intel-ssd-x25...-80g-2-5inch-mlc-with-cloning-kit-retail.html) as the OCZ.

since your only on a single core, you will notice a huge upgrade without the ssd, but the hard drive is a massive bottle neck on this setup, can you still buy velociraptors?? i think they are obsolete now, u can maybe short stroke/raid a few 1TB 7200rpm for similar performance but that is some 2009 shit.

u can get a similar case for cheaper, haf 922, its 90 bucks at CC.

i dont know about video cards and shit gtx 560 seems expensive. 470 maybe better...

over all i recommend get your stuff from ncix and price match easily with a quick search of pricecanada.com and you can probably knock 2 bills of that rig.
 
A

auron

TD Admin
lol, you don't need all that ram. I have 3 gigs ddr3 (although the faster kind, 1333 I think?) in my i7 righ and have no problems whatsoever. That's with everything maxed on any game I've tried, anything I've used for software development, whatever. Ram is easy to toss more in when you get money.
 
S

S@lv_dor

[quote1299041395=Pyro]RAM corsair XMS3 4gb 1600MHz - 54.99
CPU i5-2500k sandy bridges 1155 - 234.99
MOBO ASUS P8P67 1155 - 161.99
SSD OCZ vertex 2 80gb - 169.99
CASE cooler master HAF 932 - 129.99
PSU ANTEC TP-750 Blue Truepower 750W - 119.99
GPU GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 249.99
HDD seagate barracuda 2TB - 89.99

TOTAL = $1212
+15% tax
=$1393.8

any thoughts/recommendations? i would like to drop the price a bit. so far all i've thought of is a cheaper psu and i could settle for less GBs on the SSD. not gonna be doing dual video cards since i think it is a waste of money for the performance increase when new video cards come out every 6 months anyway
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that's actually an awesome list. the efficiency of the i5 plus the OC potential of that ram will be a lethal combo, and you just don't buy a case like that cooler master beast if you don't intend to OC like a mofo.

if you want to cut some costs, i say go to a Corsair F60 SSD instead of the OCZ. you're only gonna want to store applications and programs you use all the time on the SSD so they load faster so you're not likely to need much storage on the drive anyway.

could probably settle for a cheaper video card then upgrade later, i mean all the games out run on fine on nvidia 8 series cards anyway, and those are 150 or less. besides, load games from the SSD and you'll realize how much of a game-changer it is.

btw i was just looking up that mobo and found that asus issued a recall on all mobos in the P8P67 series. lol.

http://event.asus.com/2011/SandyBridge/notice/
 
B.From.Acc

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
i currently have that ram you listed but running at 1333, and i have that intel SSD mike listed, and of course anything someone has, they are going to be impartial to it and say its the shiznat.

so storage wise i think you're going for something similar to what i have, and i am happy with it. the 80gb SSD has my windows 7, full adobe workshop, roxio pro, 4 valve games, bulletstorm, BC2 as the big items: (itunes, has a large folder for album art, install itunes on your warehouse drive). i do have to swap out games if i want to try a new on the SSD because space does get tight like that (bulletstorm being my current pick).

but it is amazingly fast compared to a spinning disc, i just timed my start up time from button to launched firefox&steam = 39 sec. the slowest part was the board posting/bios, the last ~11-12 secs being the windows logo.
 
OG buckshot jr

OG buckshot jr

TD Admin
Lol hoob.

Note on all ram considerarion. Auron seems to be the only one wyo knows what triple channel means. Pyro, when you buy ram for any i-seres chip, you want three equal ram sticks. This way, they will actually run in triple channel mode, thus enabling massive speed gains over any other setup. Keep that in mind when shopping for ram.
 
Pyro

Pyro

TD Admin
you guys are saying 1333 ram but the p67 supports 1600 if OC'd correctly, no? ive read that it can support 2133 and even higher.
anyway thanks for all the input. BJ i am shopping mainly on newegg and canada computers (one of the only decent hardware stores around here, and they are usually well-stocked).
somebody mentioned the asus boards being on recall - i was under the impression that they had already sent out new ones to the shelves.

and sry for the "righ" typo. what i meant was rig-h (rig-hypercool)
 
Dean

Dean

TD Member
nice setup, the only thing you're missing is a DvD rom ($20),

Reusing your old dvd rom may even suffice. But yea haha last thing you want is to have resort to this.
http://cdintodrivea-cv.ytmnd.com/.
Although install an Operating System using a usb dongle is much faster and better, dvd roms are still the standard across the board.

There are also many places to shave dollars as stated above, 20 here, 30 there.
As mentioned earlier you could switch to a smaller ssd / HDD (60gb)/(1TB). You could also go for a smaller PSU, a 600-650w psu will handle this one video-card setup easily and still have headroom for future overclocking.
 
Pyro

Pyro

TD Admin
[quote1299094190=Dean]
nice setup, the only thing you're missing is a DvD rom ($20),

Reusing your old dvd rom may even suffice. But yea haha last thing you want is to have resort to this.
http://cdintodrivea-cv.ytmnd.com/.
Although install an Operating System using a usb dongle is much faster and better, dvd roms are still the standard across the board.

There are also many places to shave dollars as stated above, 20 here, 30 there.
As mentioned earlier you could switch to a smaller ssd / HDD (60gb)/(1TB). You could also go for a smaller PSU, a 600-650w psu will handle this one video-card setup easily and still have headroom for future overclocking.
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ya ill be using my old dvd rom. also just gonna recycly my old HDD and just get a new one later if i have a need.

also, i wasn't even thinking about triple channel, but def gonna go for 3 sticks over 2 for my ram, even if i dont do it right away. one of the few upgrades where money doesn't far outweigh the gain.
 
dead mike

dead mike

TD Member, Legend, Puncher of Faces, Chatbox King
Thought about the ram, looking at what S@lv_dor said about overclocking, it is mandatory with this chip, you can apparently hit 5ghz. I would definitely research thoroughly how to oc this rig and what is the ideal configuration in regards to ram/cpu/mobo.

As far as dual vs triple channel, I am of the understanding that the benefits of triple channel do not outweigh the costs as it just provides additional bandwidth that you will never use. citation needed
 
B.From.Acc

B.From.Acc

TD Admin
yeah that 1600 ram you have listed will run at 1333 stock, you just have to OC the board to run at 1600 to get that speed. mine is exactly that, just i'm not a speed junkie as of now, so i'm not using the full potential, it was just cheaper at the time to get the "1600" ram.

and upping the voltage on my board above 1.5v or something to get that 1600 speed would void my warranty on the board, but only if one is dense enough to tell them that they have OC'd when/if you need to RMA it.

-my limited knowledge.
 
OG buckshot jr

OG buckshot jr

TD Admin
I7 dude, i5s are dual core. With dx11 multithreading enabling full use of quads you'd be nuts not to get one... futureproof!!!!!
 
Cock

Cock

Cockilicious
Staff member
[quote1299128838=Pyro]
ya ill be using my old dvd rom. also just gonna recycle my old HDD and just get a new one later if i have a need.
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Are your old HD and DVD S-ATA?
Im just asking because there isn't a motherboard now that still use's IDE/ATA connections.
 
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