The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

The price was before i added the patriot memory and before tax
as for the video card my mind is already set on this card http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5316156&CatId=3585 and for the memory when i can afford it im looking at these http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4350425&CatId=3413 cheaper than those patriot and allow me for more if needed before the patriot i was using 4gb of some unknown brand bought from the source at 20$ a stick for a total of 80$
the tower will be fitted with an old window kit i have on my old tower which hold a 120mm fan plus i just love how the yellow tower looks with all the blue lights coming out of it (maybe a professional paintjob when the time comes)

As for the price all together yes it is higher than what i said for what i have but you got to understand that ive look around and waited for weeks before finding what i wanted for the right price like the E6850 cpu for a 100$ i still think that was a steal lol

 

Whisper you don't have to defend your purchases... You spent the money not us and I think you got some good components... would I change some of them or "upgrade" when I could.. sure but it's NOT to bad for your first out of the gate puter if you ask me... I did horribly the first time I built one... I did it right but chose some "lacking" components. LOL.

MOST of the help you get here is pretty good but remember we all have our favorites and you need to weed thru that as well as do some research on your own.

for example... I like Muskin RAM, CM Cases, Corsair PSU's, ATi video cards, and Liteon ODD's.... some will agree and some will say I'm crazy but it's about what works for you and the luck with certain products.

GOOD luck btw..

 

GM, you basically just spatted the best manufacturers on the planet!

 

Well thanks... lol. If you mess/build long enough you finally get around to buying some quality goodies... hehehee.

 

Personally I will never buy another Liteon ODD, even though they're probably much better then the one I had many years ago. 20/25 DVD's ended up as coasters before I finally gave up on it. My current ODD (SH-203N) gets me perfect burns every time and even has as zero write offset a an added bonus

 

LOL... see what I mean.

I understand and I've had good luck with them actually... LG is prolly my favorite writer but it doesn't do some of the things that Liteon does... like scan and such.

Good luck with your Samsung tho... they are pretty good too.

 

See, thats what I'm talking about. I love lite-on, but you've had a bad experience with them. In fact the best drive i've ever had is my lite-on LH-20A1H. My SH-S223Q(2 of them) Samsung was good for a couple months, then went down hill. Samsung usually is all around pretty good. I think AMD chose me LOL! As well as Sony chose me. I've met people that despise sony, and yet I've never been wronged by them. Strange how our universe is wired Although I have had 1 bad lite-on drive. Every manufacturer runs the risk of a bad product. None of them are perfect. It's when you get bad one after bad one after bad one when you need to say, "You know... this manufacturer sure is shoddy!"

 

all the help i got was usefull after reviewing some of the product and listening to some advice i made my choice on the OCZ Fatal1ty 4GB Dual Channel PC8500 memory and XFX Radeon HD 5770 Video Card and with that i should be able to enjoy a good night of gaming at its best. Thank alot guys


Greensman ive had a LG super multi with lightscribe for a year or so and i love it first LG drive ive bought and im not disappointed.
Same goes with seagate,5yrs old going on 6 barracuda still kickin strong and the sucker is dead quiet and doesnt seem like its gonna die anytime soon.

That remind me i had a 80gb barracuda that seized so a friend suggested i just drop the drive on the floor and see what happen well its still work as a spare drive ( i wont take a chance to install window or any other thing on it)to whoever reading this last bit about dropping the drive on the floor DO NOT TRY we were unprofessional doing stupid thing because we thought the drive was good for garbage and this could really damage your drive

 

bigwill68,

Will,
Nope. I can't go there. There's a lot more difference than $20 to $40 for a decent budget build. Here's a couple of examples!

Here's an Phenom II x2 550BE Dual core Build. $438.15

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4607/buildt.jpg

It's a Phenom II x4 with 2 cores disabled. Chances are very good that yoyu will be able to unlock them. Very fast Dual core that sells very well.

Even if I go with the new Phenom II 955BE Quad build, with the C3 stepping, it's only $532.75, well under the budget you mention.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3295/build955.jpg

You can mix and match a lot of parts and still stay under $600, including Tax and shipping! Either one would be a decent build for anyone wanting a new computer! You can split hairs on any of the individual components, but it's a solid all around build, either way!

I'm familiar with all the components, and I've had a good bit of experience with them, and there's no junk in these parts!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Russ you forgot 1 thing in your builds there, and without it could be a free system and wont amount to anything..lol the PSU.

here is what i just tossed together for us intel guys..lol

with out PSU

with PSU

with GPU & PSU

everything on this list is with free shipping except the PSU then thats only $5.99

basically with psu $500 without $400

 

not to forget the GPU

 

A 550VX is a bit overkill don'tcha think? A 400CX would be way more than enough even with a mid-range video card.

 

you all kill me with the PSU wattage. why would you want to risk running at the bare minimum when for a few dollars more(good movie) you can have peace of mind knowing there is enough power there. instead of oh no i cant do that i dont have enough juice to get me there.

 

A Corsair 400CX is nowhere near bare minimum for that PC. PSU requirements are overrated to account for the fact that most PSUs are crap. The 400CX would easily run a much more power-hungry PC than a barebones budget build like what's being shown. I wouldn't be surprised to see one run a mid-range Crossfire(4850s) or SLI(9800GTs) rig if it had enough connectors. And even then it would probably be pretty dependable.

 

Ahhhh... screw it Robert... just get one of these!!!

NICE modular psu's at the EGG

 

naw gonna get a 400w psu for my lowly crap i have.

 

Omega: Unbelievable that the GTX260 is so vastly expensive, really it is.
Sapphire's HD4870 1GB, a perfectly good rival to that card, is just $154.99 on newegg, and you can get the low-power, DX11 and eyefinity packed HD5770 from a decenty brand for just $164.99.
It's reasons like this why nvidia are never on my recommended list any more. It's nothing to do with their products, they just charge far too much.
Even an HD4890 is only $200, still $10 less than that 260.
Whysper: The card is good, the memory not so much. OCZ memory is cheap because it's lower quality. Often you can get away with that, but it has been known for OCZ RAM to cause problems on several occasions. I would either stick with Patriot, or see what you can find from Corsair, G-Skill, GEIL or Mushkin.

Omega: The 'bad one after bad one' is where my manufacturer prejudices creep in from.
Jeff: Agreed, 550W is frankly ridiculous for such systems.
Rob: Bare minimum? With some clever wiring, I could run three of those systems at once off a 400W CX. 400W is enough to run a 4870X2 and a Q9550 overclocked to 3.8Ghz. that is when a 400W PSU is bare minimum, but it would work nonetheless. Now if a 400W PSU can run that, you can imagine how much spare room there is to run a normal system.

 

LOL... you send it my way buddy.... I'll take care of that LOWLY CR@P you got!!

NOT that Sammy is 100% correct but a GOOD 400W psu will run a very nice system... NOT some off the wall CR@P brand mind you but a Corsair, PC Power & Cooling, or any of the PROPER psu brands (high end psu's that is) will... It's that they actually will provide the power needed for the system... I don't agree that the VX-550W is a waste of money tho... it provides a bit of insurance for those looking to upgrade... NOW if someone is gonna go crazy with triple Sli, extreme CPU, and run 6-10 peripherals then a BIGGER psu is needed I say... of course this is on an OC'd system as well... HUGE power consumption and HEAT from something like that!!

Remember too that you can get "adapters" to compensate for NOT having enough SATA connections... they work a treat and are safe as well.

 

oh im not worried about the adapters as im not going to be getting a psu that dont have enough..lol all of these ones that are being talked about are not modular and thats what i want. and they dont make a 400-500w modular PSU. no one.... like i said ive got my mind set on the corsair HX650 pr the CM silent pro 700w.
they are both the same price right now. so when in a week when i can buy one which ever is on sale or free shipping that is the one im going with. now if that ANTEC 1200 comes down in price i might change my mind..lol

edit
well now the corsiar has a $5 mir and CM is free shipping..lol go figure