Hello, been reading Toms forums for years, but just joined------Hello all-----
Been building my own systems since 1994, but lost my house (and beloved computer) in a fire last July, so bought a box dell, and havent played a game or or kept up with the technology since. Well the house is almost rebuilt, and were moving in soon so its time to build a real computer again!!! But I sure have missed a lot in the past year, and feel like I am starting over! My last build was a little over a year old at the time of the fire, so AMD was still a big dog, but starting to slide, it looks like Intel is now the way to go, anyway sorry to be long winded, but wanted to explain why a non newbie needs EVERYTHING, and is so lost!! Thanks in advance!!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Next week!
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: GAMING (last games I played b4 the fire were Witcher and Crysis), Internet, Movies, Music
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Need everything including Monitor, keyboard, mouse, and z5500 speakers.
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg rocks
PARTS PREFERENCES: I know AMD, but if intel is king, then I can bow. always used Nvidia video cards, minimum 24 inch monitor or bigger, I loved my Antec 900. Don't know much about these SSD drives, but they look incredible. are they worth the money?? The OCZ vertex has caught my eye. What would be a good secondary Drive for pics MP3's etc. I am really into sound Z5500's and a soundcard or is the sound card a waste of money?
OVERCLOCKING: Maybe: SLI OR CROSSFIRE:Torn between the MSI N285GTX single card, 2 260 GTX's in SLI any advice???
MONITOR:Lack of knowledge here, I just want a good, big monitor, that will accent the video card and not kill the budget.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I have spent the last 6 hours researching, and I don't feel any smarter, I could really use some advice. I am starting from the ground up so I need advice on everything. I can go a little over budget, but would definately like to stay under say $3500 total.
Thanks again,
Rodney
Been building my own systems since 1994, but lost my house (and beloved computer) in a fire last July, so bought a box dell, and havent played a game or or kept up with the technology since. Well the house is almost rebuilt, and were moving in soon so its time to build a real computer again!!! But I sure have missed a lot in the past year, and feel like I am starting over! My last build was a little over a year old at the time of the fire, so AMD was still a big dog, but starting to slide, it looks like Intel is now the way to go, anyway sorry to be long winded, but wanted to explain why a non newbie needs EVERYTHING, and is so lost!! Thanks in advance!!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Next week!
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: GAMING (last games I played b4 the fire were Witcher and Crysis), Internet, Movies, Music
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Need everything including Monitor, keyboard, mouse, and z5500 speakers.
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg rocks
PARTS PREFERENCES: I know AMD, but if intel is king, then I can bow. always used Nvidia video cards, minimum 24 inch monitor or bigger, I loved my Antec 900. Don't know much about these SSD drives, but they look incredible. are they worth the money?? The OCZ vertex has caught my eye. What would be a good secondary Drive for pics MP3's etc. I am really into sound Z5500's and a soundcard or is the sound card a waste of money?
OVERCLOCKING: Maybe: SLI OR CROSSFIRE:Torn between the MSI N285GTX single card, 2 260 GTX's in SLI any advice???
MONITOR:Lack of knowledge here, I just want a good, big monitor, that will accent the video card and not kill the budget.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I have spent the last 6 hours researching, and I don't feel any smarter, I could really use some advice. I am starting from the ground up so I need advice on everything. I can go a little over budget, but would definately like to stay under say $3500 total.
Thanks again,
Rodney
This case is big, it's durable, and it has great cooling/airflow/ventilation which is exactly what you want for a SLI set up. The psu in this build is plenty powerful enough to push this build and then some. I put in a 1T WD HD Black (they are only a hair slower than the over priced Raptors) for the fact SSD's are way over priced atm. Maybe this time next year they will be worth purchasing, but atm they aren't. The monitor in this build is a quick response monitor for gaming (2ms) not to mention it has gotten great reviews. The RAM is solid, and the mobo is a bloody steal at that price. In fact you can knock off another $20 off it with that promo code...that's before the rebate. 
Haha even I could keep going like that...
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