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re: New Gaming PC
Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:40 pm to JustinBRLA
Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:40 pm to JustinBRLA
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having 2 medium ranged graphics card is less expensive and just as good, if not better, than having just 1 top of the line card.
Erroneous. The net frames-per-second gain is minimal when dealing with two mediocre cards against one high-performance.
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Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:43 pm to Hulkklogan
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That's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overkill. Anything over 8 gigs is overkill right now. You'll just be throwing your money away.
THIS
Posted on 10/9/11 at 1:46 pm to sbr2
1 Top Tier card is generally better than 2 Mid Tier cards. With 1 card, you can buy another card down the road as an upgrade for SLI/Crossfire while, if you get 2 cards now, you would have to buy another 2 Mid Tier or 1 Top Tier card to get any performance boost. Not to mention giving up 2 PCI slots.
I'm going to recommend just building your rig yourself. It's super easy, you get better, higher quality parts and you can customize more than on a website.
I'm going to recommend just building your rig yourself. It's super easy, you get better, higher quality parts and you can customize more than on a website.
Posted on 10/9/11 at 2:09 pm to polizei11
Building myself just freaks me out. I watched a 2 hour tutorial on youtube, but yeah it just makes me extremely nervous about doing it wrong, or ruining parts because i wear socks, or something like that.
I'll look some more into it, but I don't think I could make one as good (or as good looking) as these guys do.
I'll look some more into it, but I don't think I could make one as good (or as good looking) as these guys do.
Posted on 10/9/11 at 3:50 pm to JustinBRLA
push comes to shove you can bring it to a pc repair shop and prob still come out ahead $ wise. its what i did on my first build when i was to scared to seat the CPU heatsink/fan because of the force needed felt like it was going to break something.
that said the website has options for the i7 2600k's. a mid-high end video card is plenty(570 or 2 460/6850's) and 8GB of ram. card and ram are simple installs later if you need to upgrade.
as far as SSD get 90GB or 120GB along with a 500gb or 1tb hard drive. basically you put windows 7 and other games/programs on the SSD and everything else on the other drive. you can get away with 64gb SSD because windows is i think 40gb or so but that obviously doesn't leave a lot of room
liquid cooling is probably overkill but none of the air ones jumped out from what i remember as being good. it is also the toughest thing to install if you do go with building.
that said the website has options for the i7 2600k's. a mid-high end video card is plenty(570 or 2 460/6850's) and 8GB of ram. card and ram are simple installs later if you need to upgrade.
as far as SSD get 90GB or 120GB along with a 500gb or 1tb hard drive. basically you put windows 7 and other games/programs on the SSD and everything else on the other drive. you can get away with 64gb SSD because windows is i think 40gb or so but that obviously doesn't leave a lot of room
liquid cooling is probably overkill but none of the air ones jumped out from what i remember as being good. it is also the toughest thing to install if you do go with building.
Posted on 10/9/11 at 4:19 pm to G4LSU
I wouldn't bet on this running top of the line software in 2015. God only knows what software and hardware will be like then. The advances are coming fast and furious. I've been building and upgrading PCs since 1988 and the 386sx. You're not going to future proof yourself with any PC you put together today.
Do yourself a favor and build a PC yourself or find a friend that can help you. You're going to pay a huge price premium and in 4 tears you're going to want a new PC. Guaranteed.
Do yourself a favor and build a PC yourself or find a friend that can help you. You're going to pay a huge price premium and in 4 tears you're going to want a new PC. Guaranteed.
This post was edited on 10/9/11 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 10/9/11 at 4:52 pm to JustinBRLA
do not spend $3k on computer parts and try to build it yourself if you havent done it before. especially liquid cooled etc.
as far as future proofing, good luck. no mobo will be future proofed with the way chip slots evolve these days.
i would go with 1 high end card and upgrade to a matching one in sli in a year or 18 months in the future.
get 8 or 12 gigs of ram instead of 24.
as far as future proofing, good luck. no mobo will be future proofed with the way chip slots evolve these days.
i would go with 1 high end card and upgrade to a matching one in sli in a year or 18 months in the future.
get 8 or 12 gigs of ram instead of 24.
This post was edited on 10/9/11 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 10/9/11 at 5:29 pm to JustinBRLA
As others have said 24GB of RAM is overkill. I'd probably say the same thing about the SSD. I'd wait a few years and get one once prices drop some more. This is a nice rig, but is really fricking expensive.
Posted on 10/9/11 at 6:58 pm to GeauxWarTigers
For the build you posted, the watercooling setup you are getting (1 240 mm radiator) can only effectively cool your CPU. One 240 mm radiator isn't enough to cool the CPU and one GPU much less two GPUs. You only need water when you push higher overclocks.
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