VladDracule
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Main Application: Gaming, perhaps for coding with school, unsure as to how much coding ill be able to perform at home as opposed to at school
Main games currently interested in: SWTOR, Witcher 2, may repurchase skyrim on PC, bought originally on xbox 360 because i was unsure whether or not my current set up could run it well. Also the next releases of Starcraft 2, maybe diablo III
May also look into Terra when it launches
Current chosen parts:
Chip - Intel i7-2600k
Board - Asus P8P67 PRO REV 3.1
Ram - T555-5115 ::Transcend TX2000KLN-8GK aXeRam Overlocking Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB), PC3-16000, DDR3-2000MHz, 9-11-9-24 CAS Latency, Intel XMP Ready(0.5 lbs)
HDD - TSD-500AAKX ::Western Digital WD5000AAKX Caviar Blue Hard Drive - 500GB, 3.5", SATA 6Gbps, 7200RPM, 16MB(1.05 lbs)
Sound Card - X-fi xtreme gamer (may recycle and use onboard on current rig unless you can recommend a much better card)
Optical Drive - P67-2024 :lextor PX-B320SA Blu Ray Player - DVD and CD Burner, DVD+R 16X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, DVD-RAM 12X, CD-R 48X, SATA, Lightscribe(2.4 lbs)
Video Card - EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 Video Card - 1280MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11(2.95 lbs)
PSU - Corsair CP-9020006-NA Professional Series Gold AX650 Modular Power Supply - 650W, 80 Plus Gold, 120mm Fan, Active PFC, Single +12V Rail(8.2 lbs)
Case - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4776230&sku=A107-1130
I like the case having built in fan controllers so if im wanting to leave the rig on overnight to DL something i can tone the fans down.
My first instinct is that i can go with a lower video card such as a 560, but i could only find a PNY on tigerdirect and i saw alot of threads here saying people do not like their support.
I do not plan on overclocking as i never have before so the MOBO may be able to be reduced in cost as well, however i read this particular MOBO pretty much overclocks the chip to 3.8 on its own for performance gains which i do like
I dont intent to SLI the cards unless i would need to
Monitor choice would probably be a single 1920-1080P with perhaps the possibility of 3d for when its more adaptable in the game world.
SWTOR isnt very graphic intensive at this point however they do intend to add high res graphics and AA functions.
The HDDs confuse me because from western digital i have seen cheaper cost with more storage on the say green series among others, do these come with a performance impact?
ill be recycling my network card which is a USB cisco i believe 2500k, but would maybe prefer an internal option, but not necessary
Main games currently interested in: SWTOR, Witcher 2, may repurchase skyrim on PC, bought originally on xbox 360 because i was unsure whether or not my current set up could run it well. Also the next releases of Starcraft 2, maybe diablo III
May also look into Terra when it launches
Current chosen parts:
Chip - Intel i7-2600k
Board - Asus P8P67 PRO REV 3.1
Ram - T555-5115 ::Transcend TX2000KLN-8GK aXeRam Overlocking Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB), PC3-16000, DDR3-2000MHz, 9-11-9-24 CAS Latency, Intel XMP Ready(0.5 lbs)
HDD - TSD-500AAKX ::Western Digital WD5000AAKX Caviar Blue Hard Drive - 500GB, 3.5", SATA 6Gbps, 7200RPM, 16MB(1.05 lbs)
Sound Card - X-fi xtreme gamer (may recycle and use onboard on current rig unless you can recommend a much better card)
Optical Drive - P67-2024 :lextor PX-B320SA Blu Ray Player - DVD and CD Burner, DVD+R 16X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, DVD-RAM 12X, CD-R 48X, SATA, Lightscribe(2.4 lbs)
Video Card - EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 Video Card - 1280MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11(2.95 lbs)
PSU - Corsair CP-9020006-NA Professional Series Gold AX650 Modular Power Supply - 650W, 80 Plus Gold, 120mm Fan, Active PFC, Single +12V Rail(8.2 lbs)
Case - http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4776230&sku=A107-1130
I like the case having built in fan controllers so if im wanting to leave the rig on overnight to DL something i can tone the fans down.
My first instinct is that i can go with a lower video card such as a 560, but i could only find a PNY on tigerdirect and i saw alot of threads here saying people do not like their support.
I do not plan on overclocking as i never have before so the MOBO may be able to be reduced in cost as well, however i read this particular MOBO pretty much overclocks the chip to 3.8 on its own for performance gains which i do like
I dont intent to SLI the cards unless i would need to
Monitor choice would probably be a single 1920-1080P with perhaps the possibility of 3d for when its more adaptable in the game world.
SWTOR isnt very graphic intensive at this point however they do intend to add high res graphics and AA functions.
The HDDs confuse me because from western digital i have seen cheaper cost with more storage on the say green series among others, do these come with a performance impact?
ill be recycling my network card which is a USB cisco i believe 2500k, but would maybe prefer an internal option, but not necessary