Official "I want to build a New PC!" Thread

[mattsb84]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stu

What's the story on using SSD's instead of HDD's? Is there a significant improvement in gaming if you use SSD? In order to take advantage do you need to buy a drive big enough to install the OS and Games?

Read/write times aren't in the same ball park for ssds vs hdds. It's night and day really. You would see a pretty big difference in application/OS load times. That said, a good GPU will play a larger role in performance of PC games vs a ssd.

120GB seems to be the most competitively priced ssd right now. That would allow for your OS, some applications and a few games. You could raid 0 two 120s and you'd probably have enough room to do whatever you'd like (though you'd still want a storage drive). I currently have a raid 0 of 10k rpm drives as my primary for games/os/apps. Then I have a 1tb drive for data and steam games that I'm not currently playing.

I plan on doing a rebuild at the end of 2013 and finally making the switch to ssds..so long as the price keeps coming down.

[trobinson97]

Gonna roll the dice on a 240GB SSD. Will come out to $166 after discounts and rebates, seems like a good deal to me.

[WTF]

Awesome deal.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Quote: Originally Posted by trobinson97

Gonna roll the dice on a 240GB SSD. Will come out to $166 after discounts and rebates, seems like a good deal to me.

Hook us up!

[trobinson97]

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

Awesome deal.

Yeah I got free 2 day shipping too with a one year free trial of ShopRunner, so I gotta say I'm feeling good lol.

Quote: Originally Posted by olliethebum85

Hook us up!

It's this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227727.

On top of the $20 mail in rebate, I got a promo code from newegg for 15% off all OCZ internal SSDs, but it says it's non-transferrable and only useable by the email it was sent to. You can try though: BTENFGN45

[Candyman5]

Ok final cart tally:


Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, option Fans-2x Side 120mm Fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147153

Motherboard: BIOSTAR TZ77B LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138352

Card: EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130604

CD/DVD ROM: SONY Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1681S-0B - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118031

Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.4GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I52400

COMBO WITH

Power Supply: PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk II 750W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.916855

Memory: G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231460

Total is: $751.93

Im debating between the i5 and i7........

[SuperBowlNachos]

You can get the same PSU combined with the i5-2500 for just $20 more. If you don't go i7, at least go with the 2500.
http://www.newegg.com/Special/Combo....n=search&item=
It's list the 5th one down.

[JWR3232]

hi everyone im trying to build my first pc ive never done this so some help would be appriciated! im budget is anout $1500 but thats new everything including os and ms home and student. Im not user about overclocking ive never done that and for now at least im thinking of leaving things as is and then learn later

here are the parts im looking at tell me if there good and comptable, oh and i would like to play games like skyrim, shogun 2, civ 5 and witchers hopefully on ultra. I know resolution has to do with that so ill have my monitor and graphics card next to each other

CASE: Cooler master HAF912
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119233

Motherboard: ASrock z77 pro 4-m/ ASrock z77 pro4 9 (does the m stand for moblie as in laptop some advice on what one to pick here please)
Pro4-M= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157306
Pro4= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157296

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500k
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115072

Memory: Corsair Vengance 8gb (4x2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145345

Hardrive: Segate Barracude 1TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148697

PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series 650w
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139005

CD/DVD Drive: Sony Optrac
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118067

Keyboard and mouse: Logitech wireless set
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...gitech%20mk320

OS: windows 7 home premium 64 bit (is this a disk i cant tell lol)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116986

MS Home and student 2010
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116856

Monitor: ASUS 23.6 inch 1080P LCD 1920x1080 Resolution WITH built in speakers
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=asus%20vh242h

okay now for the video cards i have 2 different in mind here now i wont get two right away but down the line if i can on my motherboard and such go with two cards that are pretty much same price

MSI Twin frozr geforce 560gtx ti 448 cores (ive heard that the 448 cards are a sort of limited edition card so thats where the if i can get another at a later date)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127615

EVGA geforce gtx 570 ti (i saw an already overclocked version for same price but worse warranty and lower star reviews btw)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...814130593'