shinyblackkitty
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a) what do you want to do with this new system / if you game how serious a gamer are you ?
either games, an alternate way of socialising or paint shop pro
b) which level do you "want" your system to be mid-level / performance / ultra performance
ultra!!!
c) anticipated budget >>>> we can give suggestions for complete builds in the $1000.00 range all the way to the Uber $2,800.00 machine
anything up to £4000 ($8000)
d) what are the specs of the system you are using now ?
horrible
Ok I have lots to spend but really, really, don't know what I am going to do in the end.
Most recently I was asking about this on View topic - [HARDWARE] Poised upon either buying Dell PC or making own.. - PC Gamer Magazine
I was originally going to buy a Dell XPS ready made one (apparently they are really good) but I think I want to go with the "buy parts and make" route instead now because I can get a water cooled PC instead of refrigerated (like the dell one, electro-whatever same as fridges use)/ fan and pick all the best latest parts,
and because hopefully it will be easier to upgrade (I am guessing with the dell one opening the case would break the warranty so I would have to either lose that or buy a brand new PC when it ges out of date)
and less inflated price
I've flipped through these two guides
Build your dream PC | Features | Custom PC
and
Build Your Own PC » PC Mechanic
Here's a complete newbie draft, done with the help of a few techy friends from the internet (I dont know many in real life, arg)
Case: Antec Super Mid Tower P190 Black 1200w Psu
PSU: Comes with case ("NeoLink 1200 Watt dual power supply system: One 650 Watt Neo Power is responsible for powering the motherboard and addin cards, while another 550 Watt, handles your drives and other peripherals")
Mobo: Asus Striker Extreme LGA775 nVIDIA nForce680i SLI 4xDDR2 ATX Gaming Motherboard with Onboard Audio, Dual Gb LAN, USB & Firewire
Video Card: BFG Tech® GeForce ® 8800 GTX OC 768MBPCI Express Graphics Card (maybe 2 SLI'd since I am going for complete overkill kinda thing)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 / 3 GHz ( 1333 MHz ) - LGA775 Socket - L2 12 MB with this heatsink: Thermaltake CL-P0401 V1 CPU Cooler
Cooling: Either water cooling (I have no idea how to set up or how to maintain though, and I've heard some horror stories about water leaking out and frying the whole PC etc...) or just the normal thing with fans, or one of those electro cooling ones that are like a fridge
HDD: Western Digital Raptor ones probably? They are the ones that most highend ready-built PC ones seem to have. I was thinking maybe I should do something like one for OS and pagefile, one for games/programs and one for everything else to minimise "MY COMPUTER IS WHIRRING ITS HARD DISKS FOR AGES LOOKING FOR STUFF AND DOING NOTHING ELSE" syndrome?
RAM: Corsair (TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX) 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2 6400 PC Memory non-ECC unbuffered 4-4-4-12 DHX Technology --OR-- something DDR3? I have been told that not many motherboards work with those though?
Pri Optical: no idea. would like DVD+-RW
Sec Optical: no idea
Sound Card: undecided - maybe from Sound Blaster X-Fi range? Most of the "customise gaming PC and buy it" shops online seem to have one of those as the main or sometimes only option
FDD: Sony MPF920-Z/CU1 ?
Keyboard: LOGITECH G15 GAMING KEYBOARD --OR-- yet-unreleased Razer Lycosa
Mouse: LOGITECH G7 W/LESS LASER MOUSE --OR-- Razer Lachesis 4000dpi Banshee
Modem: undecided, I would like one though because I am moving in a year and would need to use dialup for a bit
Monitor: Dell 30" UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC Widescreen LCD Flat Panel Monitor
Speakers: Bose Acoustimass 16 home theater speaker system
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate (I was going with XP but was told that XP can only support 3GB of RAM and the rest would be wasted otherwise(!))
Extras: none that I can think of
either games, an alternate way of socialising or paint shop pro
b) which level do you "want" your system to be mid-level / performance / ultra performance
ultra!!!
c) anticipated budget >>>> we can give suggestions for complete builds in the $1000.00 range all the way to the Uber $2,800.00 machine
anything up to £4000 ($8000)
d) what are the specs of the system you are using now ?
horrible
Ok I have lots to spend but really, really, don't know what I am going to do in the end.
Most recently I was asking about this on View topic - [HARDWARE] Poised upon either buying Dell PC or making own.. - PC Gamer Magazine
I was originally going to buy a Dell XPS ready made one (apparently they are really good) but I think I want to go with the "buy parts and make" route instead now because I can get a water cooled PC instead of refrigerated (like the dell one, electro-whatever same as fridges use)/ fan and pick all the best latest parts,
and because hopefully it will be easier to upgrade (I am guessing with the dell one opening the case would break the warranty so I would have to either lose that or buy a brand new PC when it ges out of date)
and less inflated price
I've flipped through these two guides
Build your dream PC | Features | Custom PC
and
Build Your Own PC » PC Mechanic
Here's a complete newbie draft, done with the help of a few techy friends from the internet (I dont know many in real life, arg)
Case: Antec Super Mid Tower P190 Black 1200w Psu
PSU: Comes with case ("NeoLink 1200 Watt dual power supply system: One 650 Watt Neo Power is responsible for powering the motherboard and addin cards, while another 550 Watt, handles your drives and other peripherals")
Mobo: Asus Striker Extreme LGA775 nVIDIA nForce680i SLI 4xDDR2 ATX Gaming Motherboard with Onboard Audio, Dual Gb LAN, USB & Firewire
Video Card: BFG Tech® GeForce ® 8800 GTX OC 768MBPCI Express Graphics Card (maybe 2 SLI'd since I am going for complete overkill kinda thing)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 / 3 GHz ( 1333 MHz ) - LGA775 Socket - L2 12 MB with this heatsink: Thermaltake CL-P0401 V1 CPU Cooler
Cooling: Either water cooling (I have no idea how to set up or how to maintain though, and I've heard some horror stories about water leaking out and frying the whole PC etc...) or just the normal thing with fans, or one of those electro cooling ones that are like a fridge
HDD: Western Digital Raptor ones probably? They are the ones that most highend ready-built PC ones seem to have. I was thinking maybe I should do something like one for OS and pagefile, one for games/programs and one for everything else to minimise "MY COMPUTER IS WHIRRING ITS HARD DISKS FOR AGES LOOKING FOR STUFF AND DOING NOTHING ELSE" syndrome?
RAM: Corsair (TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX) 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2 6400 PC Memory non-ECC unbuffered 4-4-4-12 DHX Technology --OR-- something DDR3? I have been told that not many motherboards work with those though?
Pri Optical: no idea. would like DVD+-RW
Sec Optical: no idea
Sound Card: undecided - maybe from Sound Blaster X-Fi range? Most of the "customise gaming PC and buy it" shops online seem to have one of those as the main or sometimes only option
FDD: Sony MPF920-Z/CU1 ?
Keyboard: LOGITECH G15 GAMING KEYBOARD --OR-- yet-unreleased Razer Lycosa
Mouse: LOGITECH G7 W/LESS LASER MOUSE --OR-- Razer Lachesis 4000dpi Banshee
Modem: undecided, I would like one though because I am moving in a year and would need to use dialup for a bit
Monitor: Dell 30" UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC Widescreen LCD Flat Panel Monitor
Speakers: Bose Acoustimass 16 home theater speaker system
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate (I was going with XP but was told that XP can only support 3GB of RAM and the rest would be wasted otherwise(!))
Extras: none that I can think of