Comp Builder

[Eclipse]

Hey Guys just wanted to post up this thread. I'm currently willing to virtually build some one a Gaming PC, meaning I'll give you the parts you need but you buy and build. All you have to do is fill out this Form

READ THIS FIRST

****The Difference Between DVD(or Blu-ray) Burner, and reader.
A Disc Burner, can burn and read discs, Blu-Ray can do it all, but DVD can only do DVD's and CD's. And a disc reader can only read that Format or lower. Blu-ray>DVD>CD.


****For picking a Hard Drive.
A Single Hard Drive will be cheaper then having many small ones, the reason why you would want alot of small hdd is if your doing HD recording.

***What SLI and Cross-Fire

Second Cross-Fire and SLI is asking if you want more then one Graphics Cards, ATI = Cross Fire, And Nvidia = SLI. What this allows you to do is have two of the EXACT SAME graphics card run a what a single graphics card could do at full capacity, but at half the temperature. (This is good, because you then wont fry out your GPU).

ex. computer 1: has only one graphics card and is running at full capacity us its 1gb memory. the temp = 56 C` (not bad, but not great)
computer 2: has two of the same graphics card, totaling up to 2gb memory. Computer runs at computer 1's speed and processing at 23 C` (Way Better)

***note these numbers are just numbers, and can vary, depending on the graphics card.***



FILL OUT THIS FORM

*NOTE! Mother Board will be chosen by me, due to that being the biggest factor that needs to be worked around on your PC. Also note that your CPU and your Motherboard, are going to be the MOST expensive part of your computer(usually, unless your going above $1000). And you do not want these poorly made, And or have bad reviews, because if they don't work, your PC wont work.

Usage: School, Gaming, Processing(Editing).

Price Range:

$600-$800= School and mid - low range gaming

$850-$1000= Mid Range Gaming and mid range Processing

$1200- $2000= Mid-High End Gaming Great Processing * The higher the better

$2000+ = I'm gonna have a field day!

CPU Type:
..Intel or AMD
..Dual Core, or Quad? (simple math 2.5 Ghz dual = 5 Ghz, 2.5Ghz Quad=10Ghz)
..Price: How much do you want to spend? ex intel core 2 duo ~$130 - intel-i7 ~ $300


Graphics Card: ATI / Nvidia How much on board Memory up to 2gb

SLI/Cross-fire: Y/N (can be cheaper some, but not usually)

HDD Space: 1 big one or many small ones (1big one is cheaper, usually)

DVD Drive: Do you want Blu-ray?(~$100) or a DVD burner (~$24)

Size: how big do you want it? Desktop, or A small PC

*smaller computers, sometimes may not allow you to put certain cards in, or allow the processing power you want, As well you should want good air ventilation in your PC

Color: Case Color (Black, White, Steel, Clear)

*note Operating systems will be windows 7 please specify which version though if you care.


So fill out this form and post it in this thread, I don't want to get spammed with messages. And I'll PM you your Setup. And possibly post up a Few PC's here in certain price ranges.







My Current PC.

Motherboard. Biostar T series 5XE

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138162&cm_re=biostar_t5xe-_-13-138-162-_-Product

CPU: Intel Core i7-870 2.93 Ghz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115213&cm_re=intel_core_i7_870-_-19-115-213-_-Product

Ram: 6gb G.Skills Rip Jaw 3x2gb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231223

Graphics Card: Asus ENGTS 450 (Nvidia)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121393&cm_re=asus_gts_450-_-14-121-393-_-Product

Blu-ray Burner: LG blu-ray burner

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136181&cm_re=blu_ray_burner-_-27-136-181-_-Product

Hard Drive: Western Digital 1Tb HDD

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

Case: AZZA Solano 1000

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811517004

Power Supply: KINGWIN Mach 1 ABT

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121037

This cost me at the time about $1200







Smallz08 Starcraft 2 PC (if he buys it)

Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO $118.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131402

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871

HDD: Samsung 500gb $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) $84.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

*GPU: PNY VCGGT4301XPB GeForce GT 430 $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133356

*PSU: FSP Group SAGA+ 400R 400W ATX12V Power Supply $44.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104953

*Disc Drive: LG Black 10X BD-ROM 67.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136183


Your Total = $646.92 + your Case from TD.

*note, that these parts of your PC will cause you problems, if you want to upgrade either your Graphics(No 6 pin connector on PSU), or do SLI(not supported on GPU), or Burn discs at all.(Disc readers can not burn anything)

[Joe Fries]

Awesome. I've always need help with this in the past.

[mrkillboy]

Once I get my job stuff finalized, I'm going to be messaging you about building a comp.

[Eclipse]

No, Don't message me. Just Fill out the form and put it in a post, it prevents my mailbox from getting cluttered, cause then I can PM you more questions specific to what you want.

Also can this get stickied? It would help new people that join the site that want a beast computer to help get one built.

[Gravity]

Just a quick question, what kind of price range would we be looking at for an extremely good gaming computer?

[Kingdayame]

Price Range: $600-700
CPU Type: Intel
Graphics Card: Nvidia
SLI/Cross-fire: Don't know what that means haha
HDD Space: Whichever is cheaper, assuming many small ones
DVD Drive: Blu-Ray
Size: As in size of the actual machine? Medium to large i guess.
Color: Black

Please PM me regarding this, I really need some help.

[Exist]

Good post man. I'm looking at getting a new comp once this semester is done so I'll be comin to you for some advice ;D

[Eclipse]

Just a quick question, what kind of price range would we be looking at for an extremely good gaming computer?

Depends, mine is pretty good, with only one graphics card, and an intel i7 processor, think runs smoothly with the standard heat sink. And only cost me about 1200.


Price Range: $600-700
CPU Type: Intel
Graphics Card: Nvidia
SLI/Cross-fire: Don't know what that means haha
HDD Space: Whichever is cheaper, assuming many small ones
DVD Drive: Blu-Ray
Size: As in size of the actual machine? Medium to large i guess.
Color: Black

Please PM me regarding this, I really need some help.

I'm going to PM you about your price range with blu-ray. I'm updating current post, due to flaws with the form not being clear.

But let me point out a few things here and copy and paste into OP.

A Single Hard Drive will be cheaper then having many small ones, the reason why you would want alot of small hdd is if your doing HD recording.

Second Cross-Fire and SLI is asking if you want more then one Graphics Cards, ATI = Cross Fire, And Nvidia = SLI. What this allows you to do is have two of the EXACT SAME graphics card run a what a single graphics card could do at full capacity, but at half the temperature. (This is good, because you then wont fry out your GPU).

ex. computer 1: has only one graphics card and is running at full capacity us its 1gb memory. the temp = 56 C` (not bad, but not great)
computer 2: has two of the same graphics card, totaling up to 2gb memory. Computer runs at computer 1's speed and processing at 23 C` (Way Better)

*note these numbers are just numbers, and can vary, depending on the graphics card.

[Smallz08]

I have decided to start building a computer a couple weeks ago because I want to be able to run SC2 pretty well. I have looked at several parts but not sure of what to go with. Any way here is what I was looking into.

Price Range: 600-800

CPU Type: AMD (because its cheaper)

Graphics Card: I have no idea
SLI/Cross-fire: which ever is cheaper

HDD Space: 500GB or 1TB

DVD Drive: Blu-Ray player not burner

Size: Full Tower

Color: Black

Here is a link to the case I was looking into: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4146085&CatId=1510

I really need some help deciding on what parts to buy mainly the graphics card. I also would like to have a motherboard with USB 3.0 because I may end up buying the black magic intensity shuttle.

[Eclipse]

I have decided to start building a computer a couple weeks ago because I want to be able to run SC2 pretty well. I have looked at several parts but not sure of what to go with. Any way here is what I was looking into.

Price Range: 600-800

CPU Type: AMD (because its cheaper)

Graphics Card: I have no idea
SLI/Cross-fire: which ever is cheaper

HDD Space: 500GB or 1TB

DVD Drive: Blu-Ray player not burner

Size: Full Tower

Color: Black

Here is a link to the case I was looking into: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4146085&CatId=1510

I really need some help deciding on what parts to buy mainly the graphics card. I also would like to have a motherboard with USB 3.0 because I may end up buying the black magic intensity shuttle.

Since we already spoke about the Black Magic problem (Requires High end mother board, not allowing for his price range) And you stated you would just want something more for SC2 here is a decent PC



Motherboard: Asus M4A79XTD EVO $118.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131402

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871

HDD: Samsung 500gb $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) $84.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231311

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116754

*GPU: PNY VCGGT4301XPB GeForce GT 430 $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133356

*PSU: FSP Group SAGA+ 400R 400W ATX12V Power Supply $44.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817104953

*Disc Drive: LG Black 10X BD-ROM 67.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136183



Your Total = $646.92 + your Case from TD.

*note, that these parts of your PC will cause you problems, if you want to upgrade either your Graphics(No 6 pin connector on PSU), or do SLI(not supported on GPU), or Burn discs at all.(Disc readers can not burn anything)

[Plur]

I also enjoy PC building :) I was wondering what is a good laptop that I could buy which runs SC2 SMOOTH. Not looking to run high settings, doesn't matter, just no lag. This is just for LANs so I can play SC2, LoL, and Minecraft with my friends.

[mrkillboy]

I'm going to be saving up a lot of money. How much money would it take to run a computer with at least 3 monitors on it? I want top of the line everything.

[Letthe]

I'm going to be saving up a lot of money. How much money would it take to run a computer with at least 3 monitors on it? I want top of the line everything.

1-2k easy.

[mrkillboy]

1-2k easy.

That's not going to take long.

[Eclipse]

1-2k easy.

When he says easy, its not. If you want the top of the line products, you'll be spending more then $7000 easy. You be using the new intel i7-990X, if one word was to describe that cpu, it would be.....Extermination. $1000.00.


I'm now building the Overkill PC,(Hardware only), will edit when done.

CPU: Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115079) $999.99

Motherboard: EVGA X58 FTW3 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188066) $259.99

Graphics Card: MSI N480GTX-M2D15-B GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127502) $299.99 x 3

Power Supply: Rosewill BRONZE Series RBR1000-M 1000W (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182188) $129.99

Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231357) $284.99

HDD Space: (preference)

DVD Drive:(preference)

Total Right now is ~ $2874.00 This is with out a Hard drive, Optical Drive, Case, and an Operating system in it.