Old Gamer's Last ComputerPost Date: 2010-12-16 |
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eviltrident
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Topic: Old Gamer's Last ComputerPosted: 16 Dec 2010 at 6:34pm |
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Hello,
If you're reading this I'd be grateful for some feedback and thoughts. I'm a gamer who's getting older (aren't we all) and while life has been great, I have less time to play games. I'm looking to get my "final gaming computer" that will last for the next 5-6 years (into marriage and beyoooond!) and will hopefully be able to play games in the future, barring any incredible change into 3D gaming. The most graphics heavy thing I'll use will be FPS's. I use one monitor, a 1680x 1050 which will likely remain attached until it dies. Here's the configuration. Anything extraneous? 12 gigs of RAM might seem excessive, but I'm thinking down the road with next Windows. Does the power supply look right or do I need to bump it up? Please give me your thoughts. Thank you Here it is Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Cooler Master HAF 932 |
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ablahblah
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Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 6:41pm |
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RAM...meh, I'll let the others decide.
Bump down windows to home premium. There aren't many benefits from pro or ult. Swap air cooling for some sort of Noctua cooler, the U12P seems like it's a nice intermediate solution. Noctua's are pretty decent in terms of cooling, most can hit up to 3.9Ghz using them. For your monitor, I'd say a GTX 570 is more than sufficient. Maximum budget...? |
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Core i7 920 @ 3.9Ghz Asus Sabertooth X58 EVGA GTX 570 Mushkin 6GB 1414Mhz |
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eviltrident
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Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 6:51pm |
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My max budget is likely 2500, but I wouldn't mind going under.
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ablahblah
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Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 6:57pm |
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R4D4RPR00F
Core i7 920 @ 3.9Ghz Asus Sabertooth X58 EVGA GTX 570 Mushkin 6GB 1414Mhz |
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!ender_
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Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 9:18pm |
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this one looks good for you, you could save a little extra going down to the u12p cpu cooler... no loss in performance |
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DST4ME
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Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 9:21pm |
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ablahblah has a great build, I would go with a corsair psu and evga sli 3 mobo, other then that, IMHO ablahblah's build is solid.
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