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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:11 pm |
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Without a doubt, thanks for all the help though guys.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:29 am |
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:57 am |
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When I was looking this past week at upgrading you had the majority of what I wanted to get, except I wanted a SSD HD because they are kewl, and I already have over a TB for regular hd's.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:18 am |
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If you are on a tight budget it all looks good, if you can float a few dollars I would make some changes. I'd consider stepping up to a Corsair powersupply, the 550vx is 69.99 AMIR, and the 750tx is 89.99 AMIR. Corsair power supplies are of much better quality over the antec's. I'd also consider a better video card, at the least a 5770, but that can depend on what resolution you play at. Any particular reason you chose a motherboard with onboard video? I doubt you plan on overclocking, so you shouldn't have any issues with temps and the arctic freezer... For the money though, xigmatech makes some good HSF's as well.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:39 am |
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:42 am |
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I have two SSD's in raid 0, and yes, they are very kewl. Make sure you don't get anything below a 64GB SSD, but I would really recommend 128GB. SSD's suffer from performance chokes more so than mechanical hard drives as they fill up. Also, make sure you get one that supports trim and you do a lot of research before you purchase. Check out my thread on the two drives, I believe in there I talk about some good resources for researching purposes.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:46 am |
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Thanks for the tip. I was just going to put my OS and whatever FOTM game I'm playing on it, nothing else.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:55 am |
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I will run some benchmarks once I get home today to see how much of a difference in performance I am really seeing once I added all of my programs and games to the raid array. I still have like 80GB free or so, I think.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:55 pm |
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noticed the onboard vid just that mobo has the ddr3 1600 and 2 16x pci slots most and was am3 that was what i searched on newegg when picking motherboard.
which brands should i shop for the 5770, its only like 10-30 dollars more than the 5750 i had picked
yea money is a big issue so i have to squeeze as much as i can out of every dollar. it will probably take me a 2 or 3 months to get the money to put this together. and i would probably be selling my laptop for part of the money. will trade HP dv9009nr 17inch for Radeon 5770!!! lol j/k. might even have to ditch the xbox 360. but that would be a hard one to do, i use it to watch tv more than play games. netflix ftw. but with that pc i would be able to stream HD to my tv wouldnt i so that would make up for that.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:58 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:04 am |
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lol i have 400$ burning a hole in my pocket right now. that i know i should use on other things but im so tempted to order some of this stuff.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:58 pm |
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Welp ended up buying the 5770. We'll see how it works after my test on Thurs.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:40 am |
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hell ya, let me know how it works.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:40 am |
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Welp I bought the wrong product. I bought the 5770 from Fry's but I thought it was MSI's hawk version as I couldn't find another MSI 5770 on a quick search on my phone through newegg so I thought they were one and the same. Turns out they have another 5770 thats more cheaply made and isn't available on newegg. Going to take it back and just newegg it. Was trying to be discrete with the wifey but fail on me.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:34 pm |
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Fuck. I just realized I threw the bag away with the receipt in it. From Fry's website I notice that they don't take it back if you don't have the receipt, but I just bought the fucking thing yesterday. Anyone have any experience on returning something there without the receipt?
Edit: Found out they can do it through CC#.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:55 pm |
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And since I'm the only one posting : I returned it today and am going to order on newegg. I just can't find a store that's as good as newegg.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:03 pm |
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Yeah Fry's is the closest thing for us around here and it is over an hour away from me. Everything else is retail trash or extremely expensive at a specialty computer store.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:16 am |
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Agreed Whiz, Fry's comes close, but just can't match the prices of Newegg. Well I know you said not to upgrade, but I did anyways. I currently have a 1.8ghz dual core with 1mb cache, 2gb ddr2, and a 9600gt. I figure these new items will help me out at least for the next year. I should be out of school in a year and have a better job than the one I have now (hopefully my masters will be worth something more :D), thus I can actually afford a nice computer then. BC2 is running better since I've remembered to OC but I wanted it to run well, not just mediocre, so I bought: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231098http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102858http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819116076
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:40 am |
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i always use newegg. unless its black friday sale or something crazy like that.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Parts Guide for All Budgets Intel/AMD Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:11 pm |
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Yeah, me too. If I oc'ed my 1.8ghz to 2.7ghz, I think I can OC this one pretty well too. I have an aftermarket heatsink and thermal paste already so no worries there.
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