vick1000
2[H]4U
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It's been two years since I have built myself a new system, after building about fifty for other folks in that time. I resisted the upgrade bug for longer than anytime in my history, but I just couldn't pass up on the deals early this week from the egg. It started out as just a mainboard-CPU-RAM upgrade (MB and RAM required of course), but I just said to hell with it, I can give my old system to a needy person (still did everything I asked of it).
Old=
Core2 Quad Q9300 at 3.0ghz (Thermalright 120 Ultra)
8GB PC28500
GTX260
Fatality X-Fi
Ati HDTV Tuner
OCZ Vertex2 60GB
150GB V.Raptor
320GB WD Blue
1TB WD Blue
Lite-on 4x Bluray drive
Antec P180 case
Enermax 625w Modu 82+
New=
Core i5 2500K (w/ Corsair CAFA50 combo deal -$10=$248)
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 (w/Crucial M4 64GB SSD combo deal -$35=$223
G.Skill Ripjaws PC312800 8GB (spotlight deal for $69)
eVGA GTX560ti $234
WD Caviar Blue 1TB $60
Antec P183 $140
Antec CP-850 $130
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium OEM $99 (old license to go w/ old PC)
free 4GB Kingston USB drive
(X-fi, V.raptor, WD 1TB, Bluray, and TVcard will transfer)
Total with shipping= $1218
Now I have to wait on UPS and hope they dont get too rough in transit. If there were only some decent games to test it out with. Maybe I'll install STALKER CoP and the Complete mod on extreme settings. Anything else beside the usual "shallow eye candy treats" like Crysis out there. Is Metro 2033 worth it maybe?
Old=
Core2 Quad Q9300 at 3.0ghz (Thermalright 120 Ultra)
8GB PC28500
GTX260
Fatality X-Fi
Ati HDTV Tuner
OCZ Vertex2 60GB
150GB V.Raptor
320GB WD Blue
1TB WD Blue
Lite-on 4x Bluray drive
Antec P180 case
Enermax 625w Modu 82+
New=
Core i5 2500K (w/ Corsair CAFA50 combo deal -$10=$248)
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 (w/Crucial M4 64GB SSD combo deal -$35=$223
G.Skill Ripjaws PC312800 8GB (spotlight deal for $69)
eVGA GTX560ti $234
WD Caviar Blue 1TB $60
Antec P183 $140
Antec CP-850 $130
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium OEM $99 (old license to go w/ old PC)
free 4GB Kingston USB drive
(X-fi, V.raptor, WD 1TB, Bluray, and TVcard will transfer)
Total with shipping= $1218
Now I have to wait on UPS and hope they dont get too rough in transit. If there were only some decent games to test it out with. Maybe I'll install STALKER CoP and the Complete mod on extreme settings. Anything else beside the usual "shallow eye candy treats" like Crysis out there. Is Metro 2033 worth it maybe?