Opinion on a Barebone kit from Tigerdirect / CompUSA.

[Sylantis]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4601609&CatId=4149

Thoughts? Is this something worthy for the price. It SEEMS like a great system for gaming, but just wanted to throw this out there to the people that may know more than me. Appreciate any feedback. Thanks. :]

 

[shortstuff_mt]

It's a nice build. The only sore spot is the Seagate 7200.11 drive.

 

[hunter315]

You can do significantly better. That 12GB of ram wont help at all and will just cost you $200 extra, right now newegg has some pretty good sales going, the Antec 900 has a $40 MIR. I would suggest this instead
Corsair 750TX $108 - $20MIR
OCZ Platinum $159 - $10MIR
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB $85
Antec 900 $100 - $10MIR
i7 920 $289
ASUS P6T $240

Comes out to $971 before $70 MIR, those savings could go towards a much nicer GPU or monitor and it will perform just as well in gaming, probably better if you spring for a better GPU.

 

[Sylantis]

You can do significantly better. That 12GB of ram wont help at all and will just cost you $200 extra, right now newegg has some pretty good sales going, the Antec 900 has a $40 MIR. I would suggest this instead
Corsair 750TX $108 - $20MIR
OCZ Platinum $159 - $10MIR
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB $85
Antec 900 $100 - $10MIR
i7 920 $289
ASUS P6T $240

Comes out to $971 before $70 MIR, those savings could go towards a much nicer GPU or monitor and it will perform just as well in gaming, probably better if you spring for a better GPU.

Oh, I already have a Radeon 5770 laying around I can use for the new build -- but curious, why won't the 16 gigs of RAM help at all?

 

[hunter315]

Most applications are 32 bit, so at the very most they could use 4GB of ram per application. Now unless you plan on running multiple games at a time or run multiple adobe applications at a time you wont make use of more than 6GB of ram, hell i do run multiple adobe apps at a time and i rarely make full use of my 4GB of ram.

Take a look at this review for some hard results, linked to the conclusion for the summary but read through the whole thing if you want to see the evidence yourself
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264-8.html