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Black Friday Gaming Rig

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perchegs

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Point of Thread: To build the best value gaming rig, utilizing either the Black Friday / Christmas deals or simply parts from a B&M Fry's/Newegg.com store.

I assume some people will be going with un-lockable cores to save money or otherwise cutting corners. If so please give a general idea of the likelihood of success, please see the Hardforum processor forums in order to provide quality reference if you go this route, but otherwise I think there will be a good amount of i5 builds as well.

Feel free to post 1 day deals or doorbuster deals if you'd like, but again consider estimating availability in your post as well.

I know there has to be several StarWars: TOR fans out there that are likely AMPing up there systems for it's release and like me are probably looking for a hardware guru/geek to give us a heads up during this time of year as to what to focus our coin on.

I built out several rigs myself but since I am looking for just a barebones/vid card, I figured I would leave this to the experts of [H]ardforum.

In advance, thank you for your ideas and I was honestly considering putting out there a reward for the best find for a value rig, but don't know precisely what people would want... maybe some paypal cash or something?

Either way I will be building one up myself and posting it here, but I fully expect to be blown away and flamed for my rig anyway. Give me a day to get that example up here.
 
What is your budget? A value rig could be one that costs $1000 or one that costs $500.

Off the top of my head I would say

i5-750
P55 based motherboard
4GB of DDR3-1333 RAM
GTX460 or ATi 5870
1TB caviar black ($60 at best buy)
700W PSU
Case of some sort
 
wait till January for the cpu, ram, motherboard, videocard and hard drive

Sign up at slickdeals or fatwallet and start getting an idea of what prices past deals have been on the items you want. Reason I say to wait will January is because of Sandy Bridge.
 
I really would recommend waiting on buying any new video cards, at least wait until the 6970 drops, as there is likely to be several price drops on AMD's 5800/6800 series cards.
 
Specifically trying to get a motherboard/memory for my i5-760 my friend is selling me for 150 dollars (he lost his job mid build). I want a gaming rig mainly, but needs to have some oomph is other fields as well. It comes with a aftermarket fan, and I will eventually get a new GPU as well, but that doesn't need to be as soon as my 9800gtx will likely get me by.

I have been looking at the gigabyte series Mobos such as
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128425
but I feel it might be a little lacking in features. (Does the intel turbo boost from the i5 work on this mobo even?) I prefer gigabyte/msi but will listen to anything.

Beyond that I want to OC the machine and don't have a clue about OC specs for memory anymore, but I'm working on googling that now. I am willing to spend anywhere from 400-800 dollars on the mobo/ram/proc (consider that the proc will likely run me 150 if I go with the i5)

I'm sure there is a better mobo out there then this for about the same price, but not finding it yet.
 
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