Hi, I've built a computer before with much help from everyone here (greatly appreciated) so here we go again. I was planning on waiting until Black Friday but with Amazon beginning to collect sales tax September 15th I decided to just go ahead and bite the bullet now.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming (Starcraft 2 and all expansions, Diablo 3 and all expansions), general web surfing/banking/Facebooking.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
About $1000 which will include a keyboard, mouse, and hopefully monitor too.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
Intel-Fanboy, Samsung-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, ASUS-fanboy, Corsair-Fanboy, Antec-Fanboy...
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Nope. All new parts.
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7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Running system at default speeds. No overclocking.
8. What resolution will you be using?
1920x1080...maybe 1920x1200 if I can score one of those Dell Ultrasharps for cheap.
9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Note that it is usually not cost or time effective to choose your build more than a month before you actually plan to be using it.
I hope to buy all parts within the next week before September 15th and as soon as I get all of them I will put it together.
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X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
Yes, just Windows 7 Home Premium.
Sample Build (mostly bummed off the great mfenn with a few tweaks)
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Mobo: ASRock Z77 Pro3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
RAM: Crucial 2x 4GB DDR3 1333
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
HDD: Samsung F3 1TB 7200RPM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Optical: Lite-ON DVD-RW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Case: Antec 300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129042
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK II 600W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
I might consider the Corsair 600W as well as that seems to be cheaper and I've had good experience with Corsair products in the past.
Two things:
1) I don't know about the video card. I thought about mfenn's suggestion but that's too much scratch at this time for a GPU. The one I'm running now on this machine is an MSi GTX 460 1GB that I'm really happy with so something similar to that around the same price point ($200) would be preferable
2) I know I've excluded the SSD for this system. I know that they are faster, best upgrade for your system but I really don't know anything about them (much less installing them).
I welcome all opinions and suggestions. Thank you!
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Gaming (Starcraft 2 and all expansions, Diablo 3 and all expansions), general web surfing/banking/Facebooking.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
About $1000 which will include a keyboard, mouse, and hopefully monitor too.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
Intel-Fanboy, Samsung-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, ASUS-fanboy, Corsair-Fanboy, Antec-Fanboy...
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Nope. All new parts.
*
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
Running system at default speeds. No overclocking.
8. What resolution will you be using?
1920x1080...maybe 1920x1200 if I can score one of those Dell Ultrasharps for cheap.
9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Note that it is usually not cost or time effective to choose your build more than a month before you actually plan to be using it.
I hope to buy all parts within the next week before September 15th and as soon as I get all of them I will put it together.
*
X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
Yes, just Windows 7 Home Premium.
Sample Build (mostly bummed off the great mfenn with a few tweaks)
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Mobo: ASRock Z77 Pro3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
RAM: Crucial 2x 4GB DDR3 1333
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
HDD: Samsung F3 1TB 7200RPM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Optical: Lite-ON DVD-RW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
Case: Antec 300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129042
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK II 600W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687
I might consider the Corsair 600W as well as that seems to be cheaper and I've had good experience with Corsair products in the past.
Two things:
1) I don't know about the video card. I thought about mfenn's suggestion but that's too much scratch at this time for a GPU. The one I'm running now on this machine is an MSi GTX 460 1GB that I'm really happy with so something similar to that around the same price point ($200) would be preferable
2) I know I've excluded the SSD for this system. I know that they are faster, best upgrade for your system but I really don't know anything about them (much less installing them).
I welcome all opinions and suggestions. Thank you!