UnknownWarrior

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Here is my old rig

Intel core 2 quad 2.66ghz
4GB of Corsair ram (800mhz/PC-6400)
MSI G31tm- p21 motherboard
Sapphire Radeon HD4850 512mb video card(800-900 stream processors)
2.25 TB of HD space
Logitech G15 gaming
Logitech G5 gaming mouse




My new rig

Intel core I7 sandy bridge 3.4ghz (3.8 with turbo boost)
16GB of G.Skill ram (1600mhz/PC-12800)
Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 P67 motherboard
Gigabyte Radeon HD6970 2GB video card (1536 stream processors)
Logitech G15 gaming Keyboard
Logitech G5 gaming mouse
2.25TB of hard drive space


Yes I know about the issue with the p67 chipset lucky for me my new board has 4 sata 6gb ports and 4 sata 3gb ports

I still need to buy a new monitor which will be a Samsung, a X-Fi sound card and I'm thinking about buying a 1.5TB HD to give me 3.75TBs of space

00fastta

Get a motherboard with tri-channel ddr3 and get 12 gigs of memory on a 64 bit os. Dual channel ddr3 was just a transitional phase and not very amazing...tri channel is much faster and plus you will never max out 16 gigs of memory for a modern gaming computer. And you don't need a mb that costs $350 either...they just say a bunch more crap, but they are really the same as a $150 board.

I actually googled the board and was reading advertising stuff on it...they put 24 phase power on it to "run the cpu"... only engineers know what that is and they would just chuckle as to why that's advertised (and all of the boards probably have something like that)

just my .02

UnknownWarrior

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I'm probably gonna return the board anyways since the p67 issue I just gotta figure or which to get, my ram is also a "quad-channel kit" and I plan on running windows 7 ultimate x64

UnknownWarrior

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I also read online that the 1155 chip set isn't going to have Tri channel only the "lga2011" chipset

Camaro Junky

So how much for the new rig total? 16GB of ram! LMAO damn yo!

Blackfly

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5K

My guess. I built a rig awhile ago and it was around 4K

Camaro Junky

Oh you crazy.

Blackfly

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LOL! not really. He said "Editing PC"- I do some video editing. 16GB is about avg. for such a system.

My Work MAC is a Quad Core w/16GB of Ram. Retail was around 4K

Camaro Junky

OK makes sense. I was thinking just for gaming only.

redws618

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NERDS. Lol j/k

UnknownWarrior

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My total out the door was 1300 for the new parts but all together probably 3-5k

35thLE02

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you can build a mac capable for 4 grand or build the pc yourself for 1300. tough choice LOL

khaos288

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how much of your 2.25 tb is SSD?

I have a main drive that is SATA but a smaller SSD drive that I put projects/games on when they are my main focus of the session...best idea ever.

Blackfly

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Sure:

I bought (2) XFX SLI cards
a Phys-X card
6 Gigs of Corsair low Latency RAM
ASUS AMD Board
ZALMAN 9500A 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler
AMD Athlon X2 4800+
Thermaltake 750Watt PS
(2) 350Gig Raptor HD's
Gigabyte AURORA case
Saitek Eclipse keyboard
logitech G5 Gaming Mouse
Dell 2407 WFPb Monitor

Purchased through New Egg (except monitor) came to about $3,800

Camaro Junky

I am a ASUS AMD guy myself. I am in the process of rebuilding my PC. What Motherboard and CPU do you suggest? No bleeding edge stuff, about the middle is what I like to buy.

Nonstickrudy

Heres my setup just waiting for the new intel chip to come out.

Case- Haf X
Graphics card- EVGA GTX 570 sc edition (sli)
PSU- Corsair hx 100watt
Processor- Intel I7 26000k
Ram- G'skill ripjaw 8gig ram ddr3
HD- Samsung spinpoint f3 1tb
Keyboard- Logitech g510
Mouse- Logitech g9x
Cooler- Corsair H70
Cd Drive- LG 10x bluray player.
SSD drive- OCZ Vertex 2 3.5 120gig(mainly for games/windows)

It's a decent price if your not looking for a monitor just yet. Average amount is about 2k.

As far as monitors go, this year is defintely a good year to wait for the new monitors being introduced by the big companys (Samsung,LG,Acer,etc...).
The reason being that they are finally tweaking these new monitors to run with the lowest possible MS for gaming and many are coming 3D ready also.

UnknownWarrior

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None yet, I have thought about it but I'm not sure if I want to get one or not

redz_02

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I built my current rig in june of 2010:

AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black edition (little overclocking w/aftermarket cooling)
2 x 2 gigs corsair xms3 DDR3 1600 (AMD uses an independent memory controller) Still havn't maxed out my memory but I don't do vid editing.
Thermaltake 850 TR2 RX watt ps (modular is nice)
GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X
2 Crossfired 5850 XFX cards.
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Random wireless mouse
LG W2486L LED-backlit LCD monitor
Used my old Lian Li case which has seen 3 builds.
2 120gig WD raptors in raid 0 (I've got a NAS server i built for shared disk) from my old rig.

Spent about a grand on everything.

I used to buy everything cutting edge, but found out a long time ago that it's only worth bragging rights and wasted money. Sure the stats look pretty, but real world performance is not worth the extra money imho. I prefer AMD b/c they don't introduce a new cpu socket ever quarter, so upgrading is easy.

UnknownWarrior

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I been thinking about making my old rig a in home Server for music/movies, what kind of OS did you use for yours?

Blackfly

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Much like cars...
1. what is your budget?
2. Mobo, CPu's and Ram need to be paired together.

If your going with a new Vid card as well you need to consider if you are going for a PCI Express 2.1 or 2.0

When I build, I try to build with "Future upgrade" in mind. That being said. Your Mobo is the most important purchase... everything else is determined by that purchase... i.e. Ram, Vid card Capabilities and type of Power Supply. (because Vid cards also determine PS type)