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MY NEW PC!
Oli-Stardust
Member Posts: 42
in Hardware
Thank you guys for helping me come up with this build, i just purchesed it a few min ago an i think its a GREAT PC
heres the build
1 x Case |
Chimera Inferno 3 Full Tower Gaming Case - Flame |
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1 x Case Lighting |
Liquid Neon Thunder Pattern Light - Red |
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0 x iBUYPOWER Labs - Noise Reduction |
None |
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0 x iBUYPOWER Labs - Internal Expansion |
None |
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1 x Processor |
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor (4x 3.40GHz/8MB L3 Cache) |
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1 x iBUYPOWER PowerDrive |
PowerDrive Level 1 - Up to 10% Overclocking |
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1 x Processor Cooling |
Liquid CPU Cooling System w/ Dual Radiator - 2x Standard 120mm Fan |
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1 x Memory |
8 GB [2 GB X4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair or Major Brand |
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1 x Video Card |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 1GB - Single Card |
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1 x Video Card Brand |
Major Brand Powered by ATI or NVIDIA |
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1 x Motherboard |
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3-B3 |
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1 x Power Supply |
750 Watt -- Corsair CMPSU-750AX |
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1 x Primary Hard Drive |
80 GB Intel X25-M MLC SSD - Single Drive |
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1 x Data Hard Drive |
1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 16M Cache, 7200 RPM, 3.0Gb/s - Single Drive |
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1 x Optical Drive |
24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black |
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0 x 2nd Optical Drive |
None |
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1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer |
12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black |
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0 x Meter Display |
None |
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0 x USB Expansion |
None |
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1 x Sound Card |
3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard |
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1 x Network Card |
Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) |
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1 x Operating System |
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit |
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1 x Keyboard |
iBUYPOWER USB Keyboard - Black |
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1 x Mouse |
iBUYPOWER Internet Mouse |
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0 x Monitor |
None |
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0 x 2nd Monitor |
None |
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1 x Speaker System |
iBUYPOWER 2.1 Channel Stereo Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System |
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0 x Headset |
None |
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0 x Video Camera |
None |
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1 x Advanced Build Options |
Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Achieve exceptional airflow in your chassis |
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1 x Advanced Build Options |
Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Basic Pro Wiring |
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1 x Warranty |
Standard Warranty Service - Standard 3-Year Limited Warranty + Lifetime Technical Support |
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Comments
hey nice build, how much did it cost you all up? and where did you order your parts from?
Nice, should keep you going for a few years, maybe 5 if you change the GFX card once during the time, it is usually tghe thing you need to upgrade.
should of gottan gtx570? only extra few bucks
1800 bucks
an i got it from IBUYPOWER.com
A Old Friend Once told me " I'll Make ya Famous"
Animal, I hate it when someone gets a better PC then me.
hey but if it makes you fill any better im happy you say this builds better than yours
A Old Friend Once told me " I'll Make ya Famous"
Liquid cooling... just lol. It's so overrated. unless your a serious overclocker and need shitloads of cooling, normal fans are very good in a good case. But overall nice system, guess you have the money for it. You coul build a similar performace rig for about 1k - 1,.2k though.
I spent only around 700 dollars for a quad core, 24 inch HDMI, 8800, 880gb's of hard drive space, 4gigs of ram, 5.1 surround sound.
Hell can still play any game on want on my XP. You really need to learn to shop around better. Hell even with a GTX 200 or 400 series card. Most I would spend still is 1000, including getting a terabyte harddrive thrown in with my 880gb's. By the way, most ram you need is 4 gigs or even 3. Not a single application, game, program, etc out there as of yet that requires more than 3. Plus, special cases are eye candy but beyond that. A giant hunk of shit.
Standard air flow into a tower works just fine, custom or default store bought. Liquid cooling is a waste of money.
Server motherboards are stronger for a desktop computer, if you get a good enough deal on a 200+ dollar motherboard. http://www.tyan.com/
When did you start playing "old school" MMO's. World Of Warcraft?
But you got a much slower processor and video card, a far inferior power supply, and no SSD, among other differences.
Now, you could build something equivalent yourself for quite a bit cheaper than $1800. But there's no chance of fitting something equivalent into a $1000 budget without some really unusual discounts.
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The main imbalance that I see is that you went really high end on the processor and power supply, as if looking for a huge overclock, and then went with a motherboard that probably can't handle that huge overclock. I'm not going to criticize the power supply choice, but if all you want is an "up to 10%" overclock, even the non-K series processors will allow that, and give you identical performance for cheaper. For that matter, Intel themselves will overclock the processor more than that for you, as the processor will do that on the fly with turbo boost when it thinks you could use the performance (i.e., at least one core under heavy load).
I'd be skittish about letting an OEM overclock a processor for me, as I don't know what they're doing to the voltage. On the other hand, someone unwilling to assemble parts himself probably shouldn't overclock it himself, either.
The other main quibble is memory. It's better to get two 4 GB modules than four 2 GB modules. That's less stress on the memory controller, and if you're going to run the memory at 1600 MHz, you're overclocking the memory controller to begin with. They're likely using memory at 1.65 V, too, rather than the stock 1.5 V, since that allows them to use cheaper memory chips and still hit the claimed clock speed of 1600 MHz.
Nice rig, congratz. I love getting a new computer. I might check them out when SWTOR comes out.
Nice setup, Congrats, and let us know how it runs
Nice to see the B3 motherboards, can finally recommend getting a sandy bridge system again
Never understood why people are putting 8GB's in there PC's.... I have 5GB, and i never even come close to using it on any games. Just flushing money down the toilet if you ask me.
Because once you run out of RAM, your performance goes straight down the tubes, but there is no such thing as too much RAM.
I will never understand why people run with non-multiples of their channels, dual channel should be in a multiple of 2, triple channel 3. 5 GB makes no sense what so ever.
is this sandy bridge? btw, how much will alienware be with similar built?
Which FF Character Are You?
Yes it is a sandy bridge.
If you want a similar build thats alienware you will be charged $100s more. I wouldn't buy alienware just because you paying alot for the brand name.
If you want a sandy bringe PC from Dell they just came out with these. They seem like they'd be a nice mid range gaming computer.
Ironically enough, by the time you upgrade the video card in that to something that can actually play games, it turns out to be about the same price Alienware Aurora line, given that the basic Dell does come bundled with a monitor and the Alienware doesn't.
Similar Alienware to the OP's build is about $1700, although you can't get it exactly the same, they don't have all the same options.
Im not sure if I did the wrong upgrade or not, but I messed around with the alienware custimization and if he wanted a i7 2600k, a card equivalent to the 560 ti, 8 gb 1600 ram, 1 tb hard drive it would cost about $2000, thats not even with the SSD.
With the link I posted you could get a good gaming machine (i7 2600, hd 5870, 1.5 tb hard drive, 8 gb 1333 ram) for about $1400 (no monitor). Or you could just buy the cheapest GPU and upgrade the PSU and GPU when you get it.
You could also wait and see what sandy bridge PCs HP comes out with if your interested in buying a pre-built from a major distributer.
More or less, if you buy the Dell or the Alienware, your buying the exact same computer, just with a different case. The innards are coming out of the same Dell factory and put together (probably) in the same factory on assembly lines right next to each other.
I didn't include an SSD in my little markup either, I just went and picked a few things that are fairly similar. All in all I didn't sink a whole lot of time into it, I was just curious myself as to what the rough price would be. $1700-2000 range is about what I would have guessed anyway, so looks like we both clicked on the right buttons
Sigh, reading this thread is really depressing. I'm still stuck with my acer laptop. Not enough saving to buy a decent system yet ...
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Good thinking. And if nothing else might it come in hand later if he actually need more than 8 Gb during the lifetime of the computer, or if the memory speed stays so he can use it for next one. You never know and I know many people who curses since they bought 4 smaller ram sticks.
8Gb do sound like they should last for the next 5 years but past experience have proven us that we shouldn't trust judgment like that.
"No PC will ever need more than 512Kb" B. Gates
8Gb do sound like they should last for the next 5 years but past experience have proven us that we shouldn't trust judgment like that.
"No PC will ever need more than 512Kb" B. Gates
That's true, if 64-bit programming actually catches on, we could see RAM requirements go up extremely fast.
However, given the current console hardware limitations, I doubt we will see any significant advancement in the state of PC gaming for some time. Ah, the sweet chains that bind us...
Even tho you can still play most games with old XP rig, its realy to old comepare to win7 64bit rig,only thing you can still play most games is becouse most games are developed for consoles and stuck to old dx9.0c xp.
But can't hurt buying a newer system like OP did becouse he can play at least the DX10 games and if games realy use DX 11 witch you can't play very well hehe.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
For the record, ibuypower.com is a pretty decent site. Not too much mark up on their stuff.