Howdy,
First time poster and first time building a computer. All of this is purely theoretical now since I don't plan on buying components until I know what I have is decent enough and until I have the funds.
I'm planning on building a home PC for general office use and some gaming (SWTOR for now and maybe others later). I've looked around on NewEgg and I went over to Fry's Electronics and the rep there gave me a quote with what he thought was a good setup. Here's what he gave me:
Processor: Intel Ci5-2450P 3.2 GHz 6MB L3 (I had originally set on the i5-3540 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge but the rep told me to avoid the IB's since they generate more heat than their predecessors)
Motherboard: MSI Z77-G45 S1155 4xDDR3 32GB max
Memory: 2 x Viper Xtreme Series 8GB DDR3 2133MHz Dual PA (I thought that 16GB would be overkill and was originally going to go with 8GB)
Power Supply: CM eXtreme Power 550W ATX 12V v2.3
Graphics: Asus GeForce GTX550 Ti OC (The GTX550 Ti was what I had set on originally)
I'm still hunting for a hard disk, SSD and case, but any advice on any of this would be helpful. I'm more concerned about performance and reliability than price, though I obviously don't want to pay a fortune :lol:
Thanks!
First time poster and first time building a computer. All of this is purely theoretical now since I don't plan on buying components until I know what I have is decent enough and until I have the funds.
I'm planning on building a home PC for general office use and some gaming (SWTOR for now and maybe others later). I've looked around on NewEgg and I went over to Fry's Electronics and the rep there gave me a quote with what he thought was a good setup. Here's what he gave me:
Processor: Intel Ci5-2450P 3.2 GHz 6MB L3 (I had originally set on the i5-3540 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge but the rep told me to avoid the IB's since they generate more heat than their predecessors)
Motherboard: MSI Z77-G45 S1155 4xDDR3 32GB max
Memory: 2 x Viper Xtreme Series 8GB DDR3 2133MHz Dual PA (I thought that 16GB would be overkill and was originally going to go with 8GB)
Power Supply: CM eXtreme Power 550W ATX 12V v2.3
Graphics: Asus GeForce GTX550 Ti OC (The GTX550 Ti was what I had set on originally)
I'm still hunting for a hard disk, SSD and case, but any advice on any of this would be helpful. I'm more concerned about performance and reliability than price, though I obviously don't want to pay a fortune :lol:
Thanks!