1) What will you be doing with this PC?
Gaming (Primarily Bad Company 2, Mass Effect, L4D2, NFS:Shift, Dirt 2)
Web Browsing
Movies/TV
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1100 or so, no
3) Where do you live?
Chicago
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget?
See specs
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing?
None
6) Will you be overclocking?
Probably not
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Plan to have HP LP2475w (currently have a very old ag neovo 19")
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Soon
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
N/A
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
This is what I've come up with:
Cooler Master RC-690
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W -W0229RU
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
AMD Phenom II X4 955
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) -OCZ3G1600LV6GK
XFX HD 5850
Western Digital 1TB -WD1001FALS (with plans to add an SSD later)
Asus 24x DVD Burner
$1,109.88 (with a new keyboard and some arctic silver 5)
What are your thoughts?
Gaming (Primarily Bad Company 2, Mass Effect, L4D2, NFS:Shift, Dirt 2)
Web Browsing
Movies/TV
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$1100 or so, no
3) Where do you live?
Chicago
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget?
See specs
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing?
None
6) Will you be overclocking?
Probably not
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Plan to have HP LP2475w (currently have a very old ag neovo 19")
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Soon
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
N/A
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
This is what I've come up with:
Cooler Master RC-690
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W -W0229RU
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
AMD Phenom II X4 955
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) -OCZ3G1600LV6GK
XFX HD 5850
Western Digital 1TB -WD1001FALS (with plans to add an SSD later)
Asus 24x DVD Burner
$1,109.88 (with a new keyboard and some arctic silver 5)
What are your thoughts?