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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Mostly gaming, but also a lot of web browsing and multi-tasking. When I get my new monitor it will become the main one and I'll be running my current old monitor at 1440x900 to read webpages, shoop stuff, etc while playing games on the other one.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I'd like to stay under 1,300, everything included, with monitor. But I am willing to go up a little bit more.
3) Where do you live?
Long Island, New York
6) Will you be overclocking?
Yes, but not by a huegliekxbox amount. I have an i7920 and I want to get it up to 3.6 and get everything else scaled to that appropriately.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
I'd like to find something between 24" and 28" with a resolution of 1920x1200.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Between now and shortly after christmas.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
I already have Windows 7 Ultimate and it's price is not included in the budget.
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Right now, these are the parts I'm looking at, I've already bought some of them because the deals looked really good.
Case: Antec 1200 ~ $140 (Bought)
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 ~ $218 (Bought)
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 750W ~ $90 - $15MIR (Bought)
RAM: Corsair XMS3 6GB PC3 12800 ~ $155 - $10MIR
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB ~ $90
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 5770 ~ $180 (Was debating between this and 5850.. but 5850 seems to be as expensive and rare as gold right now.)
MoBo: Asus P6T ~ $209 (Microcenter)
Monitor: Absolutely no clue.
I was planning to go for the P6T deluxe v2, but since I'm not planning on overclocking past 3.6 on my i7 I was thinking this would be enough, plus 210 is a lot cheaper than 280..
Also, I really need some advice with cooling. Will stock be enough, or will I need to invest in some more stuff? Since this is my first build I don't really want to attempt water cooling.
Mostly gaming, but also a lot of web browsing and multi-tasking. When I get my new monitor it will become the main one and I'll be running my current old monitor at 1440x900 to read webpages, shoop stuff, etc while playing games on the other one.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I'd like to stay under 1,300, everything included, with monitor. But I am willing to go up a little bit more.
3) Where do you live?
Long Island, New York
6) Will you be overclocking?
Yes, but not by a huegliekxbox amount. I have an i7920 and I want to get it up to 3.6 and get everything else scaled to that appropriately.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
I'd like to find something between 24" and 28" with a resolution of 1920x1200.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Between now and shortly after christmas.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
I already have Windows 7 Ultimate and it's price is not included in the budget.
----
Right now, these are the parts I'm looking at, I've already bought some of them because the deals looked really good.
Case: Antec 1200 ~ $140 (Bought)
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 ~ $218 (Bought)
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 750W ~ $90 - $15MIR (Bought)
RAM: Corsair XMS3 6GB PC3 12800 ~ $155 - $10MIR
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB ~ $90
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 5770 ~ $180 (Was debating between this and 5850.. but 5850 seems to be as expensive and rare as gold right now.)
MoBo: Asus P6T ~ $209 (Microcenter)
Monitor: Absolutely no clue.
I was planning to go for the P6T deluxe v2, but since I'm not planning on overclocking past 3.6 on my i7 I was thinking this would be enough, plus 210 is a lot cheaper than 280..
Also, I really need some advice with cooling. Will stock be enough, or will I need to invest in some more stuff? Since this is my first build I don't really want to attempt water cooling.
