This newbler wants to build a $1500 Gaming Desktop

[piranha45]

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: asap, within 1 week

BUDGET RANGE: $1500 US Dollars, give or take $200 or so

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Desktop PC Gaming is my priority. I want to max out my graphics settings as best I can with the money I have alotted.

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Monitor.

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: everyone raves about newegg.com, so they sound fine to me

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: USA

PARTS PREFERENCES: Indifferent, I seek merely bang for the buck

OVERCLOCKING: No, I'm too newb to try that stuff.

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: I don't even know what this means. If its good for gaming, or for the potential of later-on-upgrades, sure

MONITOR RESOLUTION: I'm prolly going to buy a cheap CRT monitor for now, and buy a good flatscreen later. Unless good flatscreens are really cheap now. i dunno.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I'm a total newb at this computer stuff, I'll prolly hire someone to help me out with construction once I get all the parts together. Oh, is Windows 7 compatible with games? Give me direct links to the stuff i need to order, please ^^ tyvm, your advice is appreciated. Arguing over who's recommendation is better is great, too, since I find pro/cons intriguing.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

@piranha45, yes, that's the gist of it. The less you have on the ssd the faster the boot up and applications (that are stored on the ssd) will load. I'd recommend however going with four 250gb 7200 rpm drives in raid 0 as your storage/app launcher in one.

Those are last generation drives, very good "in their day" but since surpassed. .... and not among the quietest of drives:

With 4 drives, noise and temperature would be a concern for me. Speed is all about areal density and firmware optimizations so, today, I'd be looking for no less than 500GB per platter drives like the 7200.12, Spinpoint F3, WD Caviar Black and WD RE4 families. The RE3 is last generation tech and is outclassed by the RE4's. Price per GB is no bargain either.