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Office/Gaming rig

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Limp Gawd
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I was going to do a budget upgrade on my rig in my sig, but I have some more funds now.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc

Work primarily, hosing as a quasi server for data and quickbooks for my small office, lots of internet and outlook use. some gaming (mostly LoL, WoW, but havent played that in over a year)

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?

$600-900

3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.

Irvine, CA - by a microcenter :)

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.

CPU, RAM, Motherboard, HDD (prefer speed over capacity)

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.

GeForce 9600, Seasonic 600W PSU, Lian Li Full Tower Case, Samsung T260 Monitor 1950x1200

6) Will you be overclocking?

Yea a little, but stability is the goal.

7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?

1950x1200

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
ASAP

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video? etc.

Crossfire/SLI support would be nice, but I doubt I would ever go down that road.

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?

No. will probably go Win 7 home prem 64

I am tossing between i5 2500k or i7 2600k.. i dont mind paying it but wonder if it will be noticeable for me. Also I dont know what to do for HDD or SSD.. I dont need that last 10% difference, but I want something simple and solid.. also a main goal is to have very fast disk access when multiple computers are trying to get quickbooks or orther shared date over the network.. for that purpose what is the best way to setup my HDD or SSD? I dont mind doing 2 or even a RAID setup for HDD.. dont need too much space, just speed.
 
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CPU http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0354589
Motherboard http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0374834
Ram http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0364399
$292.97 before tax because its 60$ of the mobo if you buy the 2500K, the 2600k would be good if you are doing video editng and such but for gaming and regular office work not worth the extra scratch.

You might wanna upgrade that video card definitely cause you are gonna get good frame rates with it, i just picked up a WD Caviar black 500GB from Amazon for $119, but HDD prices are rising and should be back to normal around june-july next year.
A nice budget case with lots of room is a NZXT Source 210 for 39.99 on amazon or 49.99 for 1 usb 3 port on the front
 
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Thanks for that. anything special I should do to help out network HD access?

Also MC has been out of stock of i5 2500k for a while.. I should have jumped on it! only reason I was considering i7 2600k was because it was 279 am MC, and everywhere else the i5 was only 50 bucks less.
 
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thats all dependent on your network really, you could setup a gigabit network since most motherboards have a gigabit capable adapter, you would just need a router that supported it.
 
Note that the $60 off deal that dogbyte13 mentioned ends tomorrow. So let us know now if you can't make it to MC tomorrow or tonight.

However, if you want fast network access, you basically have to ensure a few things:
- That you have a solid router
- A solid jumbo-frame enabled switch/router
- Good NICs (read Intel NICs) on all the computers to ensure really solid network performance

For more info how to really ensure a solid and fast network, I recommend asking for such info over in the Networking and Security subforum.

Getting a SSD will more or less eliminate your PC/quasi server as the primary source of being the network bottleneck. After that, it'll be your network itself that'll be the bottleneck.

SSD wise, I recommend the Crucial M4 128GB SSD.

Motherboard wise, if you do want an Intel NIC for the new PC/quasi server, go with the Asus P8Z68-V motherboard:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0364996

With the $60 off, it should come to $120 + tax.

If you want to upgrade the NICs in the PCs in your network after you've tested for yourself how slow/fast your current network performs, I recommend this Intel NIC:
$28 - Intel EXPI9301CTBLK 10/100/1000Mbps PRO/1000 GT PCI-E x1 NIC OEM w/ 1 x RJ45
 
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