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June Goal: $41.00
Due Date: Jun 30
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[T-Hawk Alter]

Hi fellas, long time no see.

Im building a new machine, hopefully some of you wizards know more than me about things like this and can provide some support.

Im building this for BF3 and future games.  Let me know if my GPU/mobo/CPU is gonna do the trick for a few years to come.  I also provided links to the items on newegg im getting.  What do you think?

Case:  COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN2 CM690 II Advanced Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216&cm_re=cooler_master_690_ii-_-11-119-216-_-Product
PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 Blue 750W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371022&cm_re=antec_750w_truepower_tp_750-_-17-371-022-_-Product
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth X58 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131665
GPU: MSI N560GTX-TI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-127-565&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
CPU:  Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz x4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211
Cooler:
RAM:  CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224
Optical:  LITE-ON Black 24X http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289
Disk:  Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
OS:  Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754
Total Newegg Price :$1350

[T-Hawk Alter]

OK, got a few pointers from a user ofver at the steam forums and made a few adjustments.  here is the new build for $1260

Case:  COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN2 CM690 II Advanced Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216&cm_re=cooler_master_690_ii-_-11-119-216-_-Product
PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 Blue 750W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371022&cm_re=antec_750w_truepower_tp_750-_-17-371-022-_-Product
Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth X58 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131665
GPU: MSI N560GTX-TI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-127-565&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
CPU:  Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz x4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211
Cooler:
RAM:  G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225
Optical:  LITE-ON Black 24X http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289
Disk:  SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
OS:  Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

[rip|Bretware]

A 64G SSD hard drive is a must,
check out the Antec three hundred case it's a very good deal and has a neat built in filter.
http://www.ozhardware.com.au/Case-Reviews/Antec-Three-Hundred-Gaming-Case-Review.html
And I like the single rail Corsair TX PSU's

Another thing to think about is you can get a blue ray burner for a $60 difference
Nice rig, good luck
 

[rip|Bretware]

Thats the wrong link to a good picture
http://www.forumapex.com/project_worklogs/159804-antec_300_case_mod_themodbrothers_com_giveaway.html

12th picture down shows the filter removed

[T-Hawk Alter]

Cool dude,
I updated my cart on newegg to this thing

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066

Also, i took out the mobo/cpu combo to wait for the sandy beach cpu to start coming out again....i will save some moolah and gain alot of resources, right?

[T-Hawk Alter]

OK So here is my new cart (thanks for all the advice/help)
I took out the mobo/cpu combo to wait for Sandy Beach. With this, will the sandy beach and a respective mobo go in lickety-split? i made change to case, power supply, RAM....not the GPU though. It should be Sandy Beach/mobo compatible right? (remember im a noob)

Case: Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129066
PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371025
Mobo:
GPU: MSI N560GTX-TI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo
CPU:
Cooler:
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231190
Optical: LITE-ON Black 24X http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106289
Disk: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152185
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116754

[rip|buzinator]

Given the budget for this build, I'm kind of bewildered that there's no SSD in there.

Best Upgrade Ever ... in all my 20yrs of building my own systems.

[rip|mrkavanagh]

You can save money by getting GTX 460 vs GTX 560

You can save money by getting AMD vs Intel

This was my recent build and I am extremely happy with it and have tons of room to upgrade. Spent less than $1000.

You can find the details and tests from my recent and very first build here.

http://www.teamrip.net/index.php?topic=5884.msg37189#msg37189

[rip|Bretware]

Ya, a 965BE@4000mhz on a 890FX chipset, with a 6970 is hard to beat for the money.
When you factor in that the 8 core bulldozer will be a drop in upgrade and being able to add a second 6970.

If money is no object go with the i7, but I like the red for the money.

[rip|bonuspoints]

I would stick to a intel chip. I was a AMD follower for many years until I was shown the way of gaming with intel and nvidia. . The 5XX nvidia GPU's will run quieter and cooler the the 4XX series. Also I agree with everyone here that SSD is the way to go. If you can afford it get 2 or 3 and place them in raid 0. You will see significant game performance under 3 categories 1. Video cards 2. CPU 3. and SSD.

-my 2 cents
-my current build
http://www.teamrip.net/index.php?topic=6073.0

[rip|mrkavanagh]

One single SSD for OS is all you need. You won't see any benifit from SSD raid unless you are going with redundancy.

The performance gains from striped SSD arrays in terms of random performance (which is what speeds up the OS and application launches etc.) are if any minimal.

Sequential speeds apparently will be quite high (max 660MB/s, no matter how many SSD's you'll use), the OS itself doesn't benefit from this, though.

Depending on your work, the more sensible configuration would be a single OS disc and a two disc stripe for work data, such like scratch etc, although 512GB seems to be a waste as the scratch data will certainly never take that amount of data