Yeah that build's making a lot more sense and is well-balanced.
What you gonna do with the remaining $2200?
IMO I'd spend $2000 on the rig and $1000 on a badass guitar + amp.
Yeah that build's making a lot more sense and is well-balanced.
What you gonna do with the remaining $2200?
IMO I'd spend $2000 on the rig and $1000 on a badass guitar + amp.
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@ OP:
.... what is that Eve thingy on your desk? Just a toy or does it do something? I loooooove Wall-E!
i would still would like to know what HDD you have and what PSU since you didnt mention it anywhere, also im quite sure the heatsink wont fit...
Put aside in a savings account for Blizzcon!
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I don't use a lot of HDD space. My music, movies and downloads are stored on an external.
I'd like to keep my Windows Vista since I already have the disc and product key on the box.
Make sure you buy a Corsair Force 3 SSD 120gig ($240ish) as your boot/wow drive and a western digital black drive for storage/non primary games etc, you can get 500gig 1tb or 2tb depending on how much you tend to use. Sandybridge computers are also built to be overclocked although your last attempt didn't go well. If you decide you want to try it get an aftermarket cooler. To maximize overclock get the Noctua DH-14 heatsink or thermaltake silverarrow, both are rather big and cost around $80. The corsair H100 is also coming out this week I believe if you want to wait and see how it performs and it should be around $120. If you don't want to overclock just get a decent mid range heatsink for around $40. You can also add fans depending on your case to improve airflow and lower the temperature. WoW also isn't heavy on GPU usage so you dont really need to buy 2 video cards, I would just buy one high end card and in the future you can buy a second if you want.
If you want a new monitor people love the Dell u2311h its a bit expensive (close to $300) but IPS monitors are amazing. Either way even if you have a budget of $3000 you won't need to spend more then $1500-2k on the computer itself to get a top of the line gaming rig.
Since you're in Canada, you can probably save a bunch of money by ordering all the parts online at NCIX.com, instead of driving out to Halifax just to go to a store that has much higher prices. It's better than Newegg and WAY better than Tigerdirect. Shipping prices are good, and especially when they have shipping deals. Make sure to click their weekly sales banner and find most of your components in there before browsing the regular priced stock. (Sales items still display as the regular price if you find them with the search or by browsing the categories, so the sales page is your best friend at NCIX.)
Also, if you don't know how or don't want to assemble the computer yourself, they will do it for you for (and test it) for just $50, and you'll still get all the boxes and CD's, and other parts they didn't use like extra screws and cables. You just add a "$50 PC assembly" or whatever they call it to your shopping cart. But... I didn't see you mention that you're getting a case or power supply, so if you're not getting a full computer then ignore what I said about PC assembly.
Also you can't use the version of Vista you have now, in your old thread you had 32 bit windows which means you can't use more then 4 gigs of ram. A windows 7 OEM copy should cost around $100 depending if its on sale.
And yes, use ncix.com for Canada its an amazing site. You can also just post on the forum there and Westcoast or one of the other members can design you a great build pretty quickly, there PC assembly is top notch and the $50 fee also gives you a 1 year warranty on the system in addition to the normal hardware warranties.
Last edited by Esg; 2011-06-19 at 06:46 PM.
3k is too much for a PC. I would pay 1k total. The extra stuff you are getting for the extra money, the real top of the line, you do not really need. CPU, video card, SSD, etc. you name it. I've been doing this for 30 years. Its the same year after year. You get 10% bump for paying 2x or 3x as much. So think about that.
The one thing I will add is really consider raid 0 or 5, there is a performance/safety boost when you add some drives and a dedicated raid controller. Also performance is much better.