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Much appricated help with new computer

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Mercypoint

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What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Application development, light photo editing via Photoshop, gaming (Supreme Commander, TF2, T4D)
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
hopefully between $500 - $800 w/o tax, shipping
3) Where do you live?
Los Angeles, CA
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Everything expect for monitor
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Maybe the case if it can fit the fan.
6) Will you be overclocking?
No
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
Currently have two 21"
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
In a few weeks
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Firewire will be good. I don't need any SLI support
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
Yep. Windows 7



Thank you very much for taking the time to give me any advise. I have a 7 years old machine which I am ready to upgrade. My main priority are stability and noise. I don't think I am willing to go with water cooling but I am not going to overclock. I hope this machine can last me another 7 years. Thanks again.
 
COOLER MASTER Elite RC-310-BWN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail $40

CORSAIR CMPSU-400CX 400W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Retail and XFX HD-487A-ZWFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail Combo $185

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives - OEM $95

Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I5750 - Retail anad ASUS P7P55D LE LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail and G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBRH - Retail Combo $405

LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - OEM $28

Total before S&H $750

in a few weeks 5750 should be out, it has similar performance and support for eyefinity.
 
What case do you have right now? If its 7yrs old, I'd get a new one, lol.

Shiro's build is good. If you can find the Samsung F3 or Seagate 7200.10 1TB drives for less than the Caviar black, go for it. They use 500GB platters, which makes them slightly faster than the 333GB platters used in the CavBlk.

How many VM's do you typically run for dev?
 
Thank you very much..

I usually just run one VM for linux development but majority of the time, the IDE is not in VM'ed.

The case was a Fry's special so I doubt it is going to cut it.

Thank again everyone
 
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