I am looking to maybe build a new computer. I have never done it before, but I have looked and these are the parts I have so far. Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358 CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 Graphics Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102826 Memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005 Blu-Ray Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136155 HDD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284 I am just looking to see if this will work or not and if someone has a suggestion on a pretty good case for it for about 100 bucks or less. I am also concerned about the actual building of the machine. I would have no idea of things I would need. I mean I can put a hdd or an optical drive or memory in, but I am more concerned with connecting the mobo, psu, and the cpu. Are these difficult tasks? And what else would I need. As I said I have never done anything like this before.
Motherboard: Very good, but unnecessary, the DS3P is the dual graphics board. This will do you fine: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128359 CPu is fine, but quad cores are becoming more and more common these days. The HD4870 2GB is an interesting card, but realistically, 1GB is enough to play anything except GTA4, and as you see, it's much cheaper to get 1GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102825 RAM is fine, PSU and HDD are also fine. I normally don't recommend Bluray recorder drives, but it's up to you, if you think you need one, go for it. Justbe advised how much cheaper top of the line DVD burners are without BluRay functionality: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118030 You are missing a case from this list.
Mainboard: The mainboard from the first post is not designed for dual graphics; don't buy it if you plan is to go crossfire later. The second slot is the slower x8 used by RAID cards and such. Hard drive: If you are planning to do a lot of HD video, you might fill up that 1TB a lot faster than you think. In terms of gigabyte per dollar, 1.5TB is a better deal. Memory: Very good quality, but that board will support much faster memory, you might not want to buy old DDR800. Graphics: It's a nice card, but not worth it, even for high-end CAD or GTA4 that can actualy use it. 2GB is more suited for the 4870x2. CPU: Get a quad core, for less than $20 more you can get a 2.66 quad core....that's 4.64GHZ faster for $20 more.
Well technically it is. It's not an 8x slot, it's two 16x slots that will run at 8x if both are used, a limitation of the P45 chipset, not the board. As someone that runs Quad crossfire off a P45, I can say that the impact isn't actually that terrible, especially for only two GPUs. The best value HDDs at the moment tend to be 1TB, the 1.5TB drives seem to be a bit more than 50% more expensive. As for graphics memory, the HD4870 2GB is unique, the HD4870X2 only has 2GB because it's 1GB per GPU, and this isn't shared, it's fixed. That's the only card that offers 2GB per GPU, but for all bar perhaps GTA4 it's useless. Measuring quad cores by multiplying the mhz? Tut tut, you don't sell PCs on ebay by any chance do you? That's the only place I see that trick.
