Recent content by Horia

Thanks for all the great input. Hardware pieces are a bit more expensive here than what they are listed as on Newegg for example, so I'll have to see. What has really caught my eye was Tom's Hardware 1300$ enthusiast PC from May 2009. What do you guys think...

I was wondering, would it not be worth it more to skip the SSDs and get another graphics card to work in SLI or Crossfire if I'm mainly buying this system for gaming?

It's only for one. /shame Also excuse my noobishness, but what exact role would these 2 pieces fulfill? Total: $1879

I'll upgrade depending on the capabilities of the rig that I'll have by the end of this. My 2000 dollar budget is only for the PC (everything in the case) excluding any other peripherals.

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I have everything else that I would need besides the actual PC :) Also, wouldn't an nVidia alternative be better for the graphics card?

Just did a quick look for the previous list. It comes down to this: Intel Core i7 920: $316 Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P, Asus P6T, or eVGA X58: $298 for the Asus P6T 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3-1600 CL9 1.5v: $174 HD4890: $203 WD1001FALS: $110 OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD x2 (or G.Skill Falcon): $262 Corsair...

The cheapest way to pretty much get anything for me is by visiting http://www.toppreise.ch/grp1_1.html It gives you a list of any product you want and sorts it by a price from a huge list of online vendors. That's how I intend to find all the pieces that I will need :)

There's a few retail stores around which have pretty much anything I would need to build a new PC. Other than that there are dozens of IT-specialized business on the internet located in Switzerland so I don't think parts will be a problem.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming + trivial stuff (surfing, chatting) 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Around 2000$, though +/- 100$ is probably ok. 3) Where do you live? Switzerland 4) What exact parts do you need...