Recent content by Konway

Not to derail this thread any more, but the controller isn't an effective way to judge the drive's performance. Look at this comparison and notice how the 4 Indilinx IDX110M00 controlled drives performed. The Corsair stood out from the Crucial, Patriot and Mushkin by a huge margin, even if...

If you don't need to use a credit card or other financing, go for it... I just hate seeing threads where people say "As soon as i get my next check I can pay off some of my CC balance and use it to buy more things!!" Spending money you don't have ftl :o

Thanks for the input. If I switch those things up and get the (slightly) smaller HAF 922 case it looks like the Intel 80GB should still be well within the budget. HAF 932 is $60 cheaper That PSU saves $35 Downgrade to 5850 should save ~$100 $1,340 before the monitor and SSD. Seems like...

Most important thing I need in a PC might be upgrade friendliness... I've had the same computer for 6 years, not sure if this one will need to last quite that long but it'd be nice to have the option :p 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Lots of...

Yeah now that I'm looking into it more that card really is a little dated... and I can't find exactly how many PCI-e slots are in there. The power supply seems a little weak too, would it be tough to upgrade to a more recent video card? I doubt I'd run games with AA or AF on. I've heard it's...

I looked up a couple things and it seems like we get ~20% off on some of the stuff (no discount on processor though). And the store is also in Delaware so I wouldn't have to pay tax on anything... I don't know if this monitor is any good but it's $60 off for employees, just one of the ones I...

It's not a set discount, we just pay whatever Best Buy pays + 5% markup. So on some things we get no discount at all (video game consoles) but on other things our discount can be 40% or more (car audio equipment, Monster cables, video game accessories).

I live near a Micro Center, am a college student and have employee discount at Best Buy (if any of that makes a difference :confused:). I looked through other build threads with similar price ranges but they all had dead links to Newegg combo deals that no longer exist >< 1) What will you be...