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Gaming, PS, Web Browsing build ~ $1100

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1stavenue

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What are your thoughts or suggestions for this build?

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Will be used mainly for CS5, Lightroom 3, flight sim, and internet.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Trying to stay around $1,000 - $1,100 not including tax and shipping. I am pretty sure that I want
the i5-750 and 8gb of memory, so price could go over to keep these parts in the build.
3) Where do you live?
Seattle
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
Case, mb, graphics card, cpu, memory, hd, dvd burner, psu, OS
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Not reusing any parts.
6) Will you be overclocking?
No.
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
24" Dell Ultrasharp Monitor.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
Soon as I can decide on parts.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
No special features.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
No.


First pass for build list.

1. Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
2. GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3P LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
3. XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5
PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
4. Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor . .
5. G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
6. Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
7. ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
8. OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ500MXSP 500W

Thanks.
 
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $75

EVGA 01G-P3-1370-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card $230

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders - OEM and COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN3 CM690 II Basic Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Combo $160

XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power ... and Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor BX80605I5750 Combo $260

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL and GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard $280

Total before S&H $1020
 
I like It_shiro's build. Whatever you do, don't use the OCZ psu you linked to - it's of poor quality. The XFX is much better: so are the Antec , Seasonic and Corsair alternatives.

I'm not a big fan of that case either, but that's more personal preference.
 
Yeah I'd go with lt_shiro's build as well:
- Significantly better quality PSU
- Significantly faster video card
- Significantly faster hard drive
- Significantly better quality case
 
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