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Case: Rosewill Blackhawk Mid Tower
(Two Extra Fans, both 7.99 120mm, 8 fan's total including stock)
Mother Board: ASRock Extreme 4 Z77
CPU: I5-2400
Heatsink and Fan: Rosewill RCX-Z300
(Arctic Silver 5)
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws 8gb (2x4gb) 1600
Video Card: HIS IceQ X Radeon 7850 2GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500gb 7200rpm
DvD Burner: Asus DRW
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W
With all the combo's plus shipping I have I'm paying $797, rounded up of course. I have been very active recently trying to figure out all of which is the best I can get, from personal friends to on hear getting many different opinions as well as my own personal research on the web. I think for just under $800 I can't get a better long term rig than this.
I feel that this case can last me many years as it is a bigger sized mid tower and with all the extra fans if I wish to overclock down the road I can. I could go cheaper but I would be sacrificing convenience and forcing me to probably buy a better case down the road if I did. I feel for $90 that this case is perfect. Bundled with the power supply on Newegg, it really can't get much better.
The hard drive is all I really need for now until an upgrade down the road with SSD's or another Hard drive. The ram is what I think to be good basic ram that will do its job very well. With the board I can just put more in down the road as needed. Speaking of the board I have been hearing a lot of good good things about ASRock motherboards lately so thought I would start out with them. The Z77 has everything on it that I need for a cheaper end motherboard so that is why I got it instead of a cheaper Z68, mainly for the internal usb 3.0 as my case as front plugins for it.
Asus burner because the combo with processor, simple as that. Graphics card mainly because I know it will get the job done, the HIS cards are known for being cool under load and its sitting at $199 right now only to get cheaper. The heatsink is just because I don't trust the stock and mainly of my friends don't either so I got something that was lower price with lots of good reviews.
Last the Power Supply. I know a lot of you are going to say I don't need a 650 watt power supply however the biggest reason I'm getting it is for the combo deal with the case. Its partially modular and I don't think I would want anything else unless its fully modular and this power supply will last me for a long time seeing as I won't be using most of its potential anyway unless I slightly overclock a few items. Speaking of overclocking. I have no big plans on overclocking with this first rig until I have done enough research to do so with future rigs, or second rig.
I think I will leave it at that. Let me know what you guys think as I have told you guy's what I think. I have put a ton of time into this rig trying to figure out what is what. Also if you would give this rig a 1 to 10 rating (1 being best) as far as a $800 dollar rig goes just let me know somewhere in your reply.
Thanks from your friendly neighborhood Astrallounge.
(Two Extra Fans, both 7.99 120mm, 8 fan's total including stock)
Mother Board: ASRock Extreme 4 Z77
CPU: I5-2400
Heatsink and Fan: Rosewill RCX-Z300
(Arctic Silver 5)
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws 8gb (2x4gb) 1600
Video Card: HIS IceQ X Radeon 7850 2GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500gb 7200rpm
DvD Burner: Asus DRW
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 650W
With all the combo's plus shipping I have I'm paying $797, rounded up of course. I have been very active recently trying to figure out all of which is the best I can get, from personal friends to on hear getting many different opinions as well as my own personal research on the web. I think for just under $800 I can't get a better long term rig than this.
I feel that this case can last me many years as it is a bigger sized mid tower and with all the extra fans if I wish to overclock down the road I can. I could go cheaper but I would be sacrificing convenience and forcing me to probably buy a better case down the road if I did. I feel for $90 that this case is perfect. Bundled with the power supply on Newegg, it really can't get much better.
The hard drive is all I really need for now until an upgrade down the road with SSD's or another Hard drive. The ram is what I think to be good basic ram that will do its job very well. With the board I can just put more in down the road as needed. Speaking of the board I have been hearing a lot of good good things about ASRock motherboards lately so thought I would start out with them. The Z77 has everything on it that I need for a cheaper end motherboard so that is why I got it instead of a cheaper Z68, mainly for the internal usb 3.0 as my case as front plugins for it.
Asus burner because the combo with processor, simple as that. Graphics card mainly because I know it will get the job done, the HIS cards are known for being cool under load and its sitting at $199 right now only to get cheaper. The heatsink is just because I don't trust the stock and mainly of my friends don't either so I got something that was lower price with lots of good reviews.
Last the Power Supply. I know a lot of you are going to say I don't need a 650 watt power supply however the biggest reason I'm getting it is for the combo deal with the case. Its partially modular and I don't think I would want anything else unless its fully modular and this power supply will last me for a long time seeing as I won't be using most of its potential anyway unless I slightly overclock a few items. Speaking of overclocking. I have no big plans on overclocking with this first rig until I have done enough research to do so with future rigs, or second rig.
I think I will leave it at that. Let me know what you guys think as I have told you guy's what I think. I have put a ton of time into this rig trying to figure out what is what. Also if you would give this rig a 1 to 10 rating (1 being best) as far as a $800 dollar rig goes just let me know somewhere in your reply.
Thanks from your friendly neighborhood Astrallounge.
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