Hi everyone! I've been playing WoW fairly regularly, albeit casually, for about a year and a half on my 3 year old 15 inch Macbook Pro with 2GB of RAM. It's never beenn easy, but with Cataclysm it has become almost unbearable at times. So I've decided to finally pony up and get a desktop PC. Pretty much everyone says have one built instead of just buying something off the shelf. The problem is that I know next to nothing about computers. I found a small computer company near me (the Philadelphia area) that builds gaming computers and I've been working with the guy on build recommendations.
I'm looking to spend approximately $1,300 give or take, excluding keyboard, mouse, monitor and OS (I already have them or will pick it up myself). I hope to have a computer with some longevity (so I want to be able to upgrade when I get the hankering) and that will allow me to play WoW (I recently joined a very casual guild that would eventually like to do some raiding, but for now I enjoy running dungeons) at the higher settings. I'd also like to be able to play Diablo 3 when it is released, as well as some old RPGs on Steam. Ideally, it would be nice to play some RPGs that I've traditionally played on the Xbox (because of having a Mac) on the PC (e.g., DAO, Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect), but for the amount I want to spend that may not be possible, at least not on high settings.
I'm posting below a potential build that this guy suggested and wondered if I could get some feedback about price (parts + labor he is quoting about $1,450), and how this build matches what I described above. It is more than what I had intended to spend, and I don't want to spend the extra money unless there is a good reason to do so. Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions you can share.
Cpu Intel i7 Bloomfield 3.06ghz 1.00
21 Motherboard Asus P6x58 Socket 1366 1.00
22 Ram G.Skill Ripjaws 4gb DDR3 1600mhz 8gbs total 2.00
23 Power Supply Hec 650w power supply Crossfire/SLI ready 1.00
24 Hard Drive Sagate Barracuda 1.5TB 7200RPM 1.00
25 Graphics Card Gigabyte Radeon 6850 HD 11GB DDR5 256bit pipelines 1.00
26 Dvd/CD Drive LG burner Standard DVD/CD 1.00
27 Case Xclio Windtunel Fully black, Blue Neon 1.00
28 Operating System Provided by Customer -
29 Keyboard none -
30 Mouse none -
31 External Drive none -
32 USB Thumb Drive none -
33 Card Reader none -
34 Extra's Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise -
35 Asquared AntiMaleware Sofware 1 year subscription -
36
37 Labor 4-6 hrs 6.00
38 SUBTOTAL $ 1,457.99
39 SALES TAX
40 TOTAL $ 1,457.99