dlf Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Purpose of System: Gaming, browsing internet, watching videos. But mostly for gaming. I may want to do folding@home GPU Setting: Quite high, if not ultra (eventually, for when I get a new monitor) Budget: @ Around $1000 - $1300 (or so) Country: USA Reuseable parts: Can't, see below (current specs) as to why Overclocking: No. Monitor: Currently 1680 x 1050 (22 Inches) - I eventually want HD (Between 23 - 27 inches) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($184.01 @ Microcenter) Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($202.82 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($43.27 @ Outlet PC) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($97.41 @ NCIX US) Storage: Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($178.60 @ Adorama) Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7770 2GB Video Card ($166.09 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced ATX Full Tower Case ($132.36 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair Professional 750W 80 PLUS Silver Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($140.71 @ Newegg) Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($20.54 @ Outlet PC) Total: $1165.81 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-01-09 01:57 EST-0500) Current specs: Case: No idea (although it is a HP slimline, gray) - that should give some idea of the sort of case. Motherboard: Asus A8N-BR (Pyrite) (1 PCI, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN, IEEE-1394) Motherboard Chipset - nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE, AMD Hammer Power Supply: No idea (but it's less than 100 watts, I think) Processor: DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3800+ CPU Cooler: A fan Memory: - DIMM1: Kingston 1 GB DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM (5-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (4-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 (at) 200 MHz) - DIMM2: Kingston 2G-UDIMM 2 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15 (at) 333 MHz) (4-4-4-12 (at) 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 (at) 200 MHz) Hard Drive: 250 GB ATA drive Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H20L ATA Device (DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/32x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM) OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit What I wanted from the System - Hardware USB 2.0 & 3.0 ports Firewire & or eSata port Support for DVI/HDMI (display port?) - either from the motherboard or from the GPU Quad Core - Software Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Folding @ Home -- Gaming Software (Heroes of) Might & Magic Diablo 1 - 2 LOD SimCity 3000/Unlimited/4000/Rushour The Sims 1 - And all expansions The Sims 2 Warcraft 2 - Tides of Darkness & Beyond the Dark Portal Warcraft 3 - Reign of Chaos & Frozen Throne -- Steam<p> ID software - Commander Keen - Doom (will run Classic Doom 3 as well) - Hexen/Heretic - Quake (Ult Quake) - Rage - Wolfenstein PopCap Games - Bejeweled - Peggle Bethesda - The Elder Scrolls: -- Morrowind (may try MorrOblivion & Skywind) -- Oblivion -- Skyrim (plenty of graphical mods) - Fallout -- 1-3/New Vegas Valve - Portal 1/2 (plenty of custom maps) - Half Life (if it will run) -- Along with the fan remake Misc Title -- Batman: Arkham Asylum/City -- Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- Dragon Age: Origins -- L.A Noire -- Legends of Grimmrock -- Torchlight 1/2 -- Metro 2033 (& Last Light) -- Sniper Elite (2?) -- Space Quest & King's Quest (if I can run them) -- Bioshock 1/2(/Infinite?) -- Sonic Generation - I may try to emulate games up to the PS2/Wii era. Power Supply - @At most 750 watts - At lest 80+ Silver - Semi or fully Modular MISC thoughts - Eventual dual monitor setup & one be Full HD - 23+ Inch Widescreen (absolute max 27, I don't have a lot of room on this desk) -- I presume one these three monitors is a good choice: --- http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-ve258q --- http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-vg23ah --- http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-vs239hp - I will not overclock. The CPU chosen was cheaper than the NON "K" edition. By like $30 or more. - I am choosing right now a weaker GPU, when I get a monitor that is actaully full HD and has HDMI (and or display port) support I can than get the 7970 or one of the 8000 series. - Is Microcenter still doing the buy the CPU & motherboard get $50 off the price of the board? Thank you, merci, gracias, domou arigato . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted January 9, 2013 MVC Share Posted January 9, 2013 For Motherboard look at Asus P8Z77-V LK or Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H both have a good set of features for cost. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-p8z77vlk http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaz77xud3h With that you can then get a HD 7850 http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvr785oc2gd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlf Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 Does anyone here think I really need 250 GB for a SSD? Although it would be nice to put some games on to it that would take a minute to load on a HDD, wouldn't that shorten the life and also wouldn't that be a bit hazardous? If the drive goes or something goes wrong with the OS or I reformat I'd may have to redownload those games. Some of the games do have stupid DRM measures like can only be installed 5 times on same system, among other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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