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$2000 Build

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Impulser

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What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Video Editing, Encoding, Gaming, Photoshop, Programming, and Web browsing. About Everything!
What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Around $2000, taxes and shipping included.
Where do you live?
Wisconsin, United States
What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc.
  • Power supply
  • Case
  • Motherboard
  • CPU
  • Cooling
  • Memory
  • Hard drive
  • Optical drive
  • Video card
Will you be overclocking?
Yeah!
What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
1920x1080
When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Next month!
What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support?
Firewire, Crossfire, and SLI.
Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
64Bit Windows 7 Home Edition.
 
Impulser said:
When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Next month!
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Too soon to start planning for a build. Please come back after the first week of August and bump up this thread again. You'll get more up to date advice that way.
 
Hi, here you go, this is best IMO:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070&cm_re=i7-_-19-115-070-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231445&cm_re=g.skill-_-20-231-445-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131760
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112244
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130587&cm_re=gtx_580-_-14-130-587-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106346&cm_re=blu_ray-_-27-106-346-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...e=pc_power_and_cooling-_-17-703-027-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...n_digital_caviar_black-_-22-136-533-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010&cm_re=h50-_-35-181-010-_-Product

This should put you right around $2000 including shipping, I think. $200 under budget, has everything you need, you could add another 8GB of RAM, a second optical drive, or even just an SSD and still be at $2000. This is the best way to go IMO.
 
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DJ Big T said:
Hi, here you go, this is best IMO:
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This should put you right around $2000 including shipping, I think. $200 under budget, has everything you need, you could add another 8GB of RAM, a second optical drive, or even just an SSD and still be at $2000. This is the best way to go IMO.
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Don't go this way at all. There's so many ways to better spend $2000 for a PC then this. That list has overpriced RAM, HDD, motherboard, and GPU. Not to mention the poor choice for a PSU. That PC P&C PSU is nowhere near the quality of the older PC P&C PSUs.
 
Danny Bui said:
Don't go this way at all. There's so many ways to better spend $2000 for a PC then this. That list has overpriced RAM, HDD, motherboard, and GPU. Not to mention the poor choice for a PSU. That PC P&C PSU is nowhere near the quality of the older PC P&C PSUs.
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Mind sharing your thoughts?

I'm also buying this in two weeks. I just need to know what I'm buying and do researching into it, to see if it's the best by.
 
If you really are buying within this month, I recommend this setup:

$465 - Intel Core i7 2600K CPU + MSI Z68A-GD65 Intel Z68 ATX Motherboard Combo
$130 - 2 x G.Skill Ripjaws F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM
$560 - 2 x XFX HD-695X-CNDC Radeon HD 6950 2GB PCI-E Video Card
$278 - Intel 510 Series SSDSC2MH120A2K5 2.5" 120GB SSD
$65 - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$19 - Sony AD-7260S-0B SATA DVD Burner
$70 - Corsair Hydro H60 CPU Cooler
$170 - Corsair 850HX 850W Modular PSU
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Total: $1757 shipped

Choose your own case. I recommend any of these cases for the above setup:
$100 - Cooler Master HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$110 - NZXT Whisper WHI - 001BK ATX Full Tower Case
$110 - Lian Li PC-60FN ATX Case
$110 - Lian Li PC-7FN ATX Case
$120 - Velocity Micro GX2-W Silver Classic Aluminum Case with Side Window
$127 - Fractal Design Define R3 Black ATX Case
$140 - NZXT Phantom PHAN-001WT White Full Tower ATX Case
$140 - NZXT Phantom PHAN-001BK Black Full Tower ATX Case
$140 - Lian Li PC-9F ATX Case
$143 - NZXT Phantom PHAN-002OR Black Finish w/Orange Trim Full Tower ATX Case
$150 - Corsair Graphite Series 600T ATX Case
$155 - Cooler Master HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP ATX Case
$160 - Silverstone RV02B-W ATX case
$178 - Silverstone RV02B-EW ATX case
$190 - Corsair Obsidian Series 650D ATX Case
 
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