• New Gaming Build (~$2000)
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This is a new build for a friend of mine, who asked me to post. This is his (and my) first time building a PC from scratch. We are located in the USA. The build will be used for gaming, as stated in the title. He has a budget of around $2000, and will be reusing the [b]Optical Drives[/b] (BlueRay and DvD) and [b]Hard Drive[/b]. He prefers an Intel CPU and Nvidia cards. His desired wishlist is as follows: [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119236]Case/Tower[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171056]Power Supply[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130574]Motherboard[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070]CPU/Processor[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103055]CPU Fan[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100015]Thermal Compound[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145327]Memory(2x)[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127567]Graphics Card[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136555]Hard Drive (2nd)[/url] How do you think it will run together, and what are some changes that should or need to be made? Once again, 1st time making a build from scratch, any advice would be appreciated.
That's a ricer ass case if I've ever seen one.. He doesn't need an i7, get a 2500k He doesn't need 8GB ram Get a NH-D14 Spinny harddrives suck, get an SSD if his budget is this high.. Get a Z68 motherboad
HAF X is nice but don't get the nvidia version I mean look at it that's nasty that looks like a giant booger.
For the case, he was looking at the regular HAF 942 but chose the Nvidia over just for the green. Is it not a good case? And for the SSD, they are pretty expensive for a small amount of space.
It's a great case but a regular one is $30 cheaper with the discount, promo code, and rebate, and I mean seriously I know it's all opinion but that thing is an eyesore. Also with SSD you're supposed to get a cheaper ~64GB one for the OS and then get a HDD for everything else.
To see the largest difference without buying a big size, Get a 64-120gb SSD for the OS and main apps, get two medium size harddrives for RAID0 put all your games on them, then get 1-2 large drives for storage. [editline]24th June 2011[/editline] Also, might as well get the lightning 580 for 25 bucks more, extra PWM's, better fan and heatsink design, overclocked as well as able to overclock much higher.
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