System Builder Marathon, March 2011: $1000 Enthusiast PC

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I would really have been interested in seeing how that 220mm fan benefited the system, pretty disappointing that a CPU cooler wasn't chosen that could fit.
 
Great build, Don. I'm a fan of WD myself, but I'm glad you tried Samsung, just to experiment and see which was preferable. The 6950 trick, very creative of you to include that here as well. Love this system, well done.

One thing, and not to nitpick... but it's "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.," not "S.T.A.L.E.R." 😉
 
[citation][nom]luis1[/nom]Just pulled the trigger on this system.. trumps your 1K system..For 820.00 shipped..http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Special-B/w/62031[/citation]

And you just got ripped off!!!!
 
Question:

I'm planning on building a new system in the next month or so and can't decide on a graphics card.

I've looked at all the past system builds here and on almost all of them include what I would consider to be a very nice graphics card. I'm not a gamer but I plan to do some HD video work. Do I need a 6950 or would a 5770 work? Do I even need that...should I just go with a 5570? I'm thinking an i7-2600K, SSD boot drive, 8GB Ram and so on.

Any good links to help me choose a GC?
 
[citation][nom]bngnome[/nom]Question:I'm planning on building a new system in the next month or so and can't decide on a graphics card. I've looked at all the past system builds here and on almost all of them include what I would consider to be a very nice graphics card. I'm not a gamer but I plan to do some HD video work. Do I need a 6950 or would a 5770 work? Do I even need that...should I just go with a 5570? I'm thinking an i7-2600K, SSD boot drive, 8GB Ram and so on.Any good links to help me choose a GC?[/citation]

Try opening a forum topic. My 5770 and Hexa-core CPU don't give me any issues at all with video work, but I do play games.
 
[citation][nom]luis1[/nom]Just pulled the trigger on this system.. trumps your 1K system..For 820.00 shipped..http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Special-B/w/62031[/citation]


Do you work for ibuypower or something? That system isn't even close. The i5-2500K blows that AMD Phenom out of the water and comparing a 6950 to a 5770 is a joke. They aren't even in the same class. Plus your "Liquid cooling" is suspect at best. I'd take the 212+ anyday.
 
[citation][nom]ava__[/nom]you forgot to add the cost of your beloved Windows[/citation]

This is just for the hardware. I smell a Mac user... Aren't you going to knock them for the games and software suites they tested?
 
[citation][nom]ava__[/nom]you forgot to add the cost of your beloved Windows[/citation]

Assuming you're not reusing your previous Installation. Even still, just another $100, whoop-de-do, that's $25 a year assuming you run this rig for four years.
 
The case is fugly, but the rest of it is great; I'd love to win it so I won't nitpick the rest of the parts. I'd build it in a different case and use the InWin for another build for my nephew, who is in to Star Wars.

And, luis1, you got owned. Sorry, but that's just how it is.
 
Newegg raised the price on the Cooler Mater Hyper 212 plus to $35, plus they have over $7 for shipping. Not a budget buster, but it sure feels like they are taking advantage of a popular product. Maybe we should stop recommending it so often. Anyone know of another effective option at the $42 price range?
 
[citation][nom]luis1[/nom]Just pulled the trigger on this system.. trumps your 1K system..For 820.00 shipped..http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Special-B/w/62031[/citation]
actually that system kinda sucks and you are a spammer...
 
[citation][nom]eloric[/nom]Newegg raised the price on the Cooler Mater Hyper 212 plus to $35, plus they have over $7 for shipping. Not a budget buster, but it sure feels like they are taking advantage of a popular product. Maybe we should stop recommending it so often. Anyone know of another effective option at the $42 price range?[/citation]
scythe mugen 2
 
I have a 6950 and would offer an alternate way to unlock your card with a bit less trouble. If you just flash it to a 6970 BIOS you can then use MSI Afterburner to underclock the timings. In this way you dont need to mess with any config files, I just set the mem at 1300mhz and click the "apply overclock on startup" button It works great! And My 3D Mark 11 score goes up 400 points and I have the lowly Phenom 965 not a sandybridge 🙁 lol
 

I dont know if you were being funny...Sorry if you were...But the unlocked 6950 in this build would take a dump on the 5770 in the build you just linked lol plus a better processor lol and you only saved $150 LMAO
 
whats the big deal?? you could have used 500 GB and added more RAM say 8GB and a cheaper case.. and you could also have tried GTX560ti so that you can really make something out of it.. btw this was the EXACT pc spec. i was thinking of buying.. but then with the little above differences.. btw whats the difference between a P67 and H67?? i see that P67 wont support optimization by virtu.. so i prefer H67.. any big deal here?? or am i missing anything?? please advice..
 

you do know a stock 6950 would beat a 560ti and the unlocked one would smash it. Also for the future it seems with tests that toms did her that if you were to add a second card these would also scale better. Nothing wrong with Nvidia they make great cards but if your trying to get the most out of $1000 why get a card that will perform under what they chose? Side note If i go to the Frys store in my area there are more returned 6950s than new LOL I have one and I love it im guessing that those are from ppl doing what I did..... I purchased a card flashed it and it wasn't stable so I returned it and got another one and it was stable as can be. So now frys is left with all these open box cards. Great deal if you dont want to unlock them they are at $265 and frys says they will support the full XFX warantee on the open box item. I dont know if the realize it a lifetime warantee lol?
 
[citation][nom]luis1[/nom]Just pulled the trigger on this system.. trumps your 1K system..For 820.00 shipped..http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Special-B/w/62031[/citation]That's some wishful thinking.
Once he stops and thinks about it he'll wish he had waited a few days to grab this build.
 
If you bother to run the same benchmarks, the results will knock that silly grin off your face 😛
Actually, it's the fan that doesn't fit the cooler, not the cooler that doesn't fit the fan. The case was simply designed wrong. I'm pretty sure that removing the side fan was part of the original plan, since Don knew about the potential problem before he ordered it.
This has happened before: Right after Tom's Hardware gave the cooler an award for it's $30 value, the price went up to $40. That put it against the better-performing Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B
 
"We suspect the gaming difference would be even wider if these systems were using identical graphics cards."

WHAT? This makes no sense. If they were using identical graphics cards, they would have been much CLOSER in gaming performance. Most of the difference you see in the gaming benchmarks is GPU performance. Put identical GPUs in these machines and you'd end up with almost identical gaming performance except at low resolutions and very CPU dependent games.
 
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