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**gbtygfvyg** · 27th July 2012

If possible try to go slightly under the budget.
Just looking for the tower + all the innards and possibly an OS. The keyboard, mouse, and monitor I can worry about later.

Forgot to add location. In the US.

**wickedplayer494** · 27th July 2012

What sorts of games are you looking to play?

**Electroholic** · 27th July 2012

http://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/Pub...umber=19884092

Specs overview:

1TB Seagate 7200RPM 3.0 Gb/s Hard Drive
nVidia GTX 480 1536MB GPU
600W power supply
8GB RAM
Intel Core i7 (Ivy Bridge) 3.5GHz (3.9 Turbo)

$1,039 - $35 in mail-in rebates = $1,004.

Threw in a GTX 480, that's what I use in my current PC and it can run any current game at max graphic settings. Doesn't include a optical drive, but you can throw in a cheap one.

You can always get a shittier/cheaper case and a cheaper hard drive (however, I actually recommend a SSD, in addition to a HDD). Not sure about the PSU, but you can probably get away with a 500W one.

Yersinia · 27th July 2012

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...px?ID=15050029

I just bought this one. It doesn't have a PSU, just remove the SSD and pop a 600-650 watt PSU into it and you're gold.

**Evilan** · 27th July 2012

Yersinia posted:

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...px?ID=15050029

I just bought this one. It doesn't have a PSU, just remove the SSD and pop a 600-650 watt PSU into it and you're gold.

It's not public btw.

**Electroholic** · 27th July 2012

If you get SSD, I recommend you get two. So if you want 64GB, get two 32GB ones and use them in a RAID configuration. You will get lightning fast speeds. (this is usually cheaper then buying a high performance, SATA 6GB/s SSD, and is still faster afaik)

Edit: Piece of shit Newegg. When I click your guys' links, it redirects me to newegg.ca index without taking me to the product.

**wickedplayer494** · 27th July 2012

Evilan posted:

Someone made a Canadian build, so I was wondering if you could give a location for us?

OP has his profile location specified in Florida. Microcenters should be aplenty for their CPU+mobo combo.

**Evilan** · 27th July 2012

Evilan posted:

I totally forgot to throw in a heatsink.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103099

**Evilan** · 28th July 2012

wickedplayer494 posted:

OP has his profile location specified in Florida. Microcenters should be aplenty for their CPU+mobo combo.

Only problem is there are not any microcenters in Florida.
http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/index.html

Yersinia · 28th July 2012

Evilan posted:

It's not public btw.

That isn't right. I put it public like 5 times it still won't show up.

What the hell.

Edited:

Electroholic posted:

If you get SSD, I recommend you get two. So if you want 64GB, get two 32GB ones and use them in a RAID configuration. You will get lightning fast speeds. (this is usually cheaper then buying a high performance, SATA 6GB/s SSD, and is still faster afaik)

I'm going to assume this was directed at me because the build I linked mentioned an SSD.

My answer to your recommendation is: I appreciate the advice but I don't want anything to do with a RAID Array and to be quite honest an SSD is plenty fast enough as it stands.

**Electroholic** · 28th July 2012

Yersinia posted:

That isn't right. I put it public like 5 times it still won't show up.

What the hell.

Edited:

I'm going to assume this was directed at me because the build I linked mentioned an SSD.

My answer to your recommendation is: I appreciate the advice but I don't want anything to do with a RAID Array and to be quite honest an SSD is plenty fast enough as it stands.

You linked the wrong URL. Here is your build:

http://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/Pub...umber=15050029

I do a lot of programming/compiling and media production which is why I figured the RAID would be more useful, but I guess for the average user a single SSD (especially SATA III) would be plenty of speed. When building my computer, I saw that I could buy two smaller drives for the price of another drive so I thought I might as well RAID them for even higher speeds; I didn't see any disadvantages.

**Evilan** · 29th July 2012

Hey OP, are you still monitoring the thread so you can give us feedback on our recommendations?

Also, did you manage to acquire an OS? If you're a student you can go to the technology store that most campuses have and get it for cheaps.