Hey everyone, so I'm finally up for building myself another computer after all these years and I'm a bit rusty as to whats good these days, so I was wondering if I could get a little advice before I move forward. I came here last time and got some great advice. I mainly use my computer for gaming (i.e. I wanna be able to play sc2 properly) / small time music production at home. My budget is around 600 - 800$$ give or take. So far this is what I'm looking at...
Video Card: Newegg.ca - EVGA 01G-P3-1371-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card (I hear good things about this card)
Nvidia or ATI better these days?
Motherboard: I'm clueless as to a motherboard and their seem to be a lot of combo deals on newegg with the above graphics card. Personally and correct me if this logic is stupid but I wanted a pretty decent motherboard so that I could slowly upgrade it with more ram if needed or throw in another video card in the future etc.. etc.. So some help here would be fantastic.
CPU: I'm looking into the quad cores but really have no idea about anything else after that, some help here would be great as well.
RAM: I guess this has to wait since I don't know what mobo I'm getting yet.
Hard Drive: Newegg.ca - Western Digital Caviar Black WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
CD/DVD: I had 2 LG DVD drives (one RW) on my old computer, will one of those still be fine for the new computer or are they so cheap that I might as well get a new one?
Sound Card: I know most motherboards have good onboard sound these days but I'm big on the music as you could tell from above so I was looking at getting this at some point (maybe not right away). Thoughts, feelings?
Newegg.com - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional 70SB088600002 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card
I have a Antec p180 case would this provide the sufficient cooling for a new computer these days?
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/cases/Antec P180B/P180-Fronts.jpg
I also have an Antec 500W smartpower 2.0 power supply from my old build, will this be sufficient for this new computer?
but if either the case or power supply aren't good enough for the new build I'll just leave them for the old one.
I plan on putting my old computer into a cheaper case for maybe one of my folks to use, I was looking at Newegg.ca - Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
I know its a little bit pricey for a cheap case but I had a burnout back in the day and I'm paranoid about proper cooling now. If anyone knows of a better/cheaper case that will do the job that would be great. The old computer is pretty **** old (i.e. it's using a Radeon 9800 pro.
Sorry for the long post (bare with me please!) and thanks in advance for any help!!
Video Card: Newegg.ca - EVGA 01G-P3-1371-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card (I hear good things about this card)
Nvidia or ATI better these days?
Motherboard: I'm clueless as to a motherboard and their seem to be a lot of combo deals on newegg with the above graphics card. Personally and correct me if this logic is stupid but I wanted a pretty decent motherboard so that I could slowly upgrade it with more ram if needed or throw in another video card in the future etc.. etc.. So some help here would be fantastic.
CPU: I'm looking into the quad cores but really have no idea about anything else after that, some help here would be great as well.
RAM: I guess this has to wait since I don't know what mobo I'm getting yet.
Hard Drive: Newegg.ca - Western Digital Caviar Black WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
CD/DVD: I had 2 LG DVD drives (one RW) on my old computer, will one of those still be fine for the new computer or are they so cheap that I might as well get a new one?
Sound Card: I know most motherboards have good onboard sound these days but I'm big on the music as you could tell from above so I was looking at getting this at some point (maybe not right away). Thoughts, feelings?
Newegg.com - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional 70SB088600002 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card
I have a Antec p180 case would this provide the sufficient cooling for a new computer these days?
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/cases/Antec P180B/P180-Fronts.jpg
I also have an Antec 500W smartpower 2.0 power supply from my old build, will this be sufficient for this new computer?
but if either the case or power supply aren't good enough for the new build I'll just leave them for the old one.
I plan on putting my old computer into a cheaper case for maybe one of my folks to use, I was looking at Newegg.ca - Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
I know its a little bit pricey for a cheap case but I had a burnout back in the day and I'm paranoid about proper cooling now. If anyone knows of a better/cheaper case that will do the job that would be great. The old computer is pretty **** old (i.e. it's using a Radeon 9800 pro.
Sorry for the long post (bare with me please!) and thanks in advance for any help!!