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Post Date: 2010-02-26
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    Posted: 26 Feb 2010 at 4:21pm
Forum users of Digital Storm I need your help!!! I am looking to buy my FIRST gaming computer and I am like a newborn babe alone in the darkened woods of Middle Earth as ravening hordes of Uruk-hai descend upon me. In other words, I have no idea what I am looking for.

My interest in finally looking into a gaming rig stems from my love of two RPG console games: Elder Scrolls - Morrowind & Dragon Age: Origins. I have loved these games on my XBOX and PS3 respectively and would like nothing more then to further experince them in all their modded-out PC glory. However, not owning a home computer makes that rather difficult (as you could imagine). So after a quick perusal of Google via "Best Damn Gaming Computer" I stumbled upon this site. Well perhaps stumbled is not the proper word as I seemed to be pulled here via Jedi Mind Power as I read positive comment after positive comment.

Anyway, long story short - I have a budget of $1500-$2000 to work with and my only goal is to be able to run these two games with major mods with as few issues as possible. I have no need for any other applications nor do I forsee such in the future. I would like to be able to hook the system up to my 65in Mitsubishi DLP HDTV, otherwise as large a monitor as is feasible is the goal. My knowledge is pretty minimal so any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read and I hope the forum can help.

-TUT
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I'm an amatuar at this but I'll give it a shot.  I'm sure DST4 and the others will be here to straighten it out soon enough Angry.

The main thing I'm not sure about here is the cooler.

Link: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/comploadsaved.asp?id=388380
Ticket #:388380
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - HAF 922
Exterior Finish: - Not Available
Trim Accents: - Not Available
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz (Quad Core)
Motherboard: EVGA X58 LE Edition SLI (Intel X58 Chipset) (Supports SLI or CrossFire)
System Memory: 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested)
Power Supply: 750W Corsair TX (Dual SLI Compatible)
Expansion Bay: - Not Available
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (1TB Seagate/Hitachi/Western Digital (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) (SATA) (Extreme Speed)
Set 1 Raid Options: - Not Available
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 22x / CD-Writer 48x)
Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks
Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Video Card: 1x ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Add-on Card: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio
Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: Cooler Master V8 High Performance Cooler (Compatible With ONLY i7 Processors)
H20 Tube Color:- Not Available
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Blue)
Enhancements: - Not Available
Chassis Mods: - Not Available
Noise Reduction: - Not Available
Boost Processor: FREE: Stage 1: Overclock the processor between 3.3GHz to 3.9GHz (Requires Air Cooling Upgrade)
Boost Video Card: - Not Available
Boost Memory: - Not Available
Boost OS: - Not Available
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)
Virus Protection: - Not Available
Office: - Not Available
Benchmarking: - Not Available
Install/Test Game: - Not Available
Display: - No Thanks
Surge Shield: - No Thanks
Speakers: - No Thanks
Keyboard: - No Thanks
Mouse: - No Thanks
External Storage: - No Thanks
Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks
Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 5-10 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Care Extended Parts & Labor Warranty


Edited by TheTrickster - 26 Feb 2010 at 6:46pm
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The stage 2 Liquid cooler is crappy...For your setup going with Air cooling will be more than enough.
Dragon Age Origins is awesome isn't it ;p I could never get into the morrowind series.
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change os to win7 pro then you are good.

asetek is not real liquid cooling adn you don't want it

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Edited my post with Win7 Pro.
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Tut,
 
Having your 65" HDTV will be cool novelty to fire up some of your games on.  I think that certainly RPG's can sometimes be played like that.  But, at least for me, competetive gaming is best on 22".  Some people say 19".  But in any event, go with a two monitor set up if you can.  So run a 22" 1920X1080 along with your big TV. 
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wow, a 65"?!!  
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Appreciate all the responses and I will certainly take them all into consideration. Thanks!!!
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Our pleasure and good luck

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