Plan on upgrading some time this year (soon) after using this e8400@4ghz 4gb, 4890 1GB for 2~ years (starting to show its age, specially after this 4890 died, it's in zombie mode or something with some games)
This is what i have so far, was trying to keep the budget under 1k USD
Case:HAF 912 Cheap, enough big fan, trying to go for quietness, sick of loud fans, don't want to reuse my antec 300
HDD:Seagate barracuda green 1.5TB 5900RPM, mixed feelings about the RPM but I ran out of 500GB rather fast on this WD drive and the barracuda has 64mb cache
GPU:ASUS GTX 550 TI 1GB Kinda sick of ATI, and can't find a similar price point card for the performance either, will swap to an ATI card if someone can show benches with cooler chips/speed and lower price
PSU:RAIDMAX RX-850AE 850W Need a lot of help on this one, I mainly picked this one because it's GOLD certified but I know I don't need 850W and raidmax is hit and miss on the quality from what i've seen(modular isn't a must but I would like modular)
RAM:G.SKILL SNIPER DDR3 2133 8GB (4gbx2) Also on the fence, I want quick RAM and 8GB but this is probably a bad option
MOBO:GIGABYTE GA-Z68P INTEL Seems to be the best for the price as I won't need 3x PCIe
CPU:i5-2500K not much to say here, I plan on OCing
Cooling:CPU heatsink, ZALMAN CNPS5X SZ
Fans: Top 140mm
Side and front 200mmsLEDs don't matter but oh well can't avoid em
OS: win 7 (gotta get this free or cheap <.<)
total is around $900 atm, feel free to tell me what's bad
This is what i have so far, was trying to keep the budget under 1k USD
Case:HAF 912 Cheap, enough big fan, trying to go for quietness, sick of loud fans, don't want to reuse my antec 300
HDD:Seagate barracuda green 1.5TB 5900RPM, mixed feelings about the RPM but I ran out of 500GB rather fast on this WD drive and the barracuda has 64mb cache
GPU:ASUS GTX 550 TI 1GB Kinda sick of ATI, and can't find a similar price point card for the performance either, will swap to an ATI card if someone can show benches with cooler chips/speed and lower price
PSU:RAIDMAX RX-850AE 850W Need a lot of help on this one, I mainly picked this one because it's GOLD certified but I know I don't need 850W and raidmax is hit and miss on the quality from what i've seen(modular isn't a must but I would like modular)
RAM:G.SKILL SNIPER DDR3 2133 8GB (4gbx2) Also on the fence, I want quick RAM and 8GB but this is probably a bad option
MOBO:GIGABYTE GA-Z68P INTEL Seems to be the best for the price as I won't need 3x PCIe
CPU:i5-2500K not much to say here, I plan on OCing
Cooling:CPU heatsink, ZALMAN CNPS5X SZ
Fans: Top 140mm
Side and front 200mmsLEDs don't matter but oh well can't avoid em
OS: win 7 (gotta get this free or cheap <.<)
total is around $900 atm, feel free to tell me what's bad
Last edited by MECtallica (2012-01-18 17:44:19)
