Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP (this week)
Budget Range: $1200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Media (tv/movies/music)
Parts Not Required: keyboard/mouse/monitor/speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: Yes, but light since air-cooled
SLI or Crossfire: No
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments:
1) Do you think it's worth buying a new SSD to take advantage of 6GB/s Sata? I currently have a Corsair P128 SSD which gets speeds around 140mb/s read and write. The newer SSDs claim to be at 500mb/s R/W but will probably come in a bit under that. This would cost me $200 but I could probably sell the older SSD for $100 or so to a friend or on CL.
2) Do you think a sound card is worth it versus Realtek onboard audio? I don't have cable so I watch all of my TV/movies on my 27" monitor. My speakers are Logitech 2.1s so nothing special.
3) Does anyone have experience with a dedicated Nic card or ethernet or whatever it's called these days? The reason I ask is because I am torrenting many gigs every day and figure that taxes the cpu a bit. I have heard that those Killer gaming ones are a ripoff but figured I'd ask ya'll!
Here's the build as it currently stands, with newegg pricing. Thanks for your time!
$90 - COOLER MASTER HAF 922 Case
$90 - PC P&C Silencer 650 MkII Power Supply
$130 - Asus P8Z68-V LE Motherboard
$220 - i5 2500k Processor
$370 - MSI Twin Frozr III/OC Nvidia GTX 570 Video card
$52 - 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws Memory
$205 - 120GB Corsair Force Series GT SSD
Budget Range: $1200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Media (tv/movies/music)
Parts Not Required: keyboard/mouse/monitor/speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg
Country of Origin: USA
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: Yes, but light since air-cooled
SLI or Crossfire: No
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200
Additional Comments:
1) Do you think it's worth buying a new SSD to take advantage of 6GB/s Sata? I currently have a Corsair P128 SSD which gets speeds around 140mb/s read and write. The newer SSDs claim to be at 500mb/s R/W but will probably come in a bit under that. This would cost me $200 but I could probably sell the older SSD for $100 or so to a friend or on CL.
2) Do you think a sound card is worth it versus Realtek onboard audio? I don't have cable so I watch all of my TV/movies on my 27" monitor. My speakers are Logitech 2.1s so nothing special.
3) Does anyone have experience with a dedicated Nic card or ethernet or whatever it's called these days? The reason I ask is because I am torrenting many gigs every day and figure that taxes the cpu a bit. I have heard that those Killer gaming ones are a ripoff but figured I'd ask ya'll!
Here's the build as it currently stands, with newegg pricing. Thanks for your time!
$90 - COOLER MASTER HAF 922 Case
$90 - PC P&C Silencer 650 MkII Power Supply
$130 - Asus P8Z68-V LE Motherboard
$220 - i5 2500k Processor
$370 - MSI Twin Frozr III/OC Nvidia GTX 570 Video card
$52 - 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws Memory
$205 - 120GB Corsair Force Series GT SSD
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