Recent content by erikkellison

Well, for the sake of sharing with readers what my journey led to, and to solicit final feedback on my choices (in order to avoid any grave errors), here is my tentative final build: CPU: Intel i7-12700K $400 i9-12900K $570 multiple tests indicate that the i9 performance gains are not worth...

I looked at Puget Systems - seems like a cool idea, but their options are quite limited (1 MB to choose from, 3 processors, and limited RAM choices which are neither straightforward nor transparent. I wish there was another company that did what they do a little better. I'm not going anywhere...

Here's my tentative build with some rationale... would love to hear what you all think. I have read all your posts in great detail and done a fair bit of research on my own as well, in order to better understand current tech. This is based on the premise that I don't wait for the Ryzen 7000 or...

I have to ask - how would your recommendations change knowing that I don't care about and have no intention to play any games? Like seriously - the last video game I played was Halo. Where can I downgrade the components knowing I won't need that level of video processing? Or do I still need it...

I don't want to flood this young thread, but I really have to say that I'm quite impressed with the support and feedback so far. I have some digesting of what has been said so far, but please, feel free to continue to contribute while I play catch-up. Thanks!!

Sorry for the confusion with this statement - what I mean to say is that in the future, years down the road, faster processors will be released. And a year or three later, they will be significantly cheaper than when they were released as they are, at that time, obsolete, but still significantly...

Where will you buy? USA? Amazon? Newegg? Local store? Newegg. I'm in WA state. What is absolute top dollar for all parts total? Not wanting to go overboard would probably imply i7 for an Intel, not i9. I really don't want to spend more than $5k, but that # is totally arbitrary. Don't think it...

Hi all, It's been a long time since I got engaged in this sort of thing, so please forgive the ignorance in advance. I currently have a home PC that is just getting too long in the tooth. I have upgraded it to the max, I believe (I don't think I can run faster significantly faster RAM or CPU)...

I just ordered everything you suggested, but I got a Gigabyte MoBo instead: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128498 Unfortunately it was more, but I wanted a standard FF MoBo, and that board looks good. I can't wait to get it working. I'll post up when I have it built...

I just went to buy the whole kit, and they're out of the MoBo. Ideas? Also, what's MIR? And is there anything special I need to do in the BIOS to enable the dual channel memory? Oh, and do I need cables, or do the internal drives all come with appropriate cables?

Okay, so please forgive me for the general nature of this query. I want to build a new desktop since my laptop is leaving something to be desired, and with the advent of Dropbox, I think I could have more than one computer, so it's desktop time. Cheaper and faster, right? My needs: Windows 7...