Hi there,
First of all, I wanted to thank all the respected participants here, whose topics on how to build a new system helped me understand hardware components and their relations a bit better. Although I'm in the IT business, hardware components were never my strong side, so cudos to you all for expanding my knowledge on this area.
Secondly, I wanted to ask your opinion on the following components that I want to buy for a new system:
Approximate Purchase Date: next week would be preferable, but soon
Budget Range: 600 USD (I never used rebates, and I think we don't have rebates in Hungary, so let's forget about that) - I can go up to 680 USD, but I really don't want to spend much more than that
System Usage from Most to Least Important: watching movies, gaming, surfing the internet
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS, HDDs for data storage
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, although obviously I will buy the parts in Hungary, so I really just use it for reviews - don't know how much it would help to show you a Hungarian computer hardware website... (will do if you ask me to)
Country: Hungary
Parts Preferences: I would like to use an AMD CPU, full tower case, and preferably a radeon, but you can override my decisions as you want to, because although I have an AMD CPU now, I really don't bend towards any brands
Overclocking: Maybe, but probably will stick to the defaults in the first half year
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, but that's for later, too, not right now, one GPU would be fine
Monitor Resolution: right now my LG IPS231P-BN runs on 1920x1080, and I intend to keep using it like that
Additional Comments: I would like a quiet PC, and a rather fast one, too, of course. The price range is converted from HUF (Hungarian Forints).
These are the parts I chose:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Processor: AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
Graphics Card: SAPPHIRE 100315L Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Hard Drive (SSD for OS): Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CT040G3K5 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W Modular High Performance Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandybridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom
I intent to use the CPU's default cooler, that's why it's not on the list.
What do you think? What would you change?
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Ben
First of all, I wanted to thank all the respected participants here, whose topics on how to build a new system helped me understand hardware components and their relations a bit better. Although I'm in the IT business, hardware components were never my strong side, so cudos to you all for expanding my knowledge on this area.
Secondly, I wanted to ask your opinion on the following components that I want to buy for a new system:
Approximate Purchase Date: next week would be preferable, but soon
Budget Range: 600 USD (I never used rebates, and I think we don't have rebates in Hungary, so let's forget about that) - I can go up to 680 USD, but I really don't want to spend much more than that
System Usage from Most to Least Important: watching movies, gaming, surfing the internet
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS, HDDs for data storage
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, although obviously I will buy the parts in Hungary, so I really just use it for reviews - don't know how much it would help to show you a Hungarian computer hardware website... (will do if you ask me to)
Country: Hungary
Parts Preferences: I would like to use an AMD CPU, full tower case, and preferably a radeon, but you can override my decisions as you want to, because although I have an AMD CPU now, I really don't bend towards any brands
Overclocking: Maybe, but probably will stick to the defaults in the first half year
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe, but that's for later, too, not right now, one GPU would be fine
Monitor Resolution: right now my LG IPS231P-BN runs on 1920x1080, and I intend to keep using it like that
Additional Comments: I would like a quiet PC, and a rather fast one, too, of course. The price range is converted from HUF (Hungarian Forints).
These are the parts I chose:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
Processor: AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
Graphics Card: SAPPHIRE 100315L Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity
Hard Drive (SSD for OS): Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CT040G3K5 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W Modular High Performance Power Supply compatible with Intel Sandybridge Core i3 i5 i7 and AMD Phenom
I intent to use the CPU's default cooler, that's why it's not on the list.
What do you think? What would you change?
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Ben