Request advice on config.

The difference between 570 and 580 is like 9 fps in the game where it counts, at your res, you will never ever never ever never notice the difference between the 2 anyways.

In short stick with 570, but even that is too much for your res/crt.

750w corsair is more then you need, and since you don't want to go multi gpu, you don't need the 1000w.

the rest looks good.

as for keyboard and stuff, I'm not very good with those.

I can tell you that DS does not install drivers for the extra parts like keyboard and etc, nor do they test them, and the 4 year warranty does not cover them either.

Edited by DST4ME - 24 Dec 2010 at 3:18am

My pleasure and good luck     

Originally posted by !ender_ buy what you like but its definitely worth mentioning that its well within your budget to upgrade your monitor which will drastically improve your viewing experience.. as a gaming rig you are spending money in some very strange places, do you really need 2 TB of storage?!   what interests you about 3 HDs? a main... storage... and backup? hard copy backups cant be replaced for one, and unless you are storing hours of HD video 1 TB is a whole lot of space to use up.   as far as 5 years goes, it really doesnt matter what you buy. it will be completely outclassed in 3 years, let alone 5. better off getting a 570 and pocketing the left over money for a new video card after 3ish years.   im suprised to hear that you want to hang on to a 1024 by 768.. with a 2500 budget what could possibly be your reasoning for this? comparing that to a decent 1920x1080 monitor is like comparing your parents old 10 inch kitchen tv to a current 40"+ HD tv like i said before, buy what you want, i just feel like you are really cheating yourself.

Thanks for the reply. As I previously posted I have been looking for the last 3 years and people have responded to my request for advice the last three Decembers.

I have carefully listened and considered their advice. I started out three years ago with a $5,000 wish list including liquid cooling etc and slowly changed things over time after considering the forums input.

So let me explain my why I decided to do what I finally did.

1) The monitor. I am an accountant and have spent the last 27 years at work looking at various monitors every single day including 3 years with a couple different flat pannels. My monitor at home - a NEC MultiSync E700 gives me the best clear sharp display both text and graphics including very nice rich color and it works fine.   I only play strategy games and I like 1024 by 768 as my eyes are not as young as they used to be. And when the monitor dies then I can buy the larger flat pannel but I just don't see any reason to spend the money now.

2) This will be my fourth computer and I have found the more hard disk space the better.   The games I like allow you to heavily mod them and have multiple copies.

I use one disk for the system, a second for data, and the third for backup.   I listened to the advice on the forum last year and tried an external hard drive for backup. I spent a couple days reading reviews on various external drives and how reliable they are and quickly lost faith in putting all my eggs in one basket.

I intend to keep using the third internal for regular backup and restore as internal drives appear more reliable. However since I did buy an external I will also backup to that from time to time.

As for 5 years - well the company I used to work for got sold and I had to take a big pay cut - so the machine has to last a while meaning that I needed to try and balance between buying the best I could while keeping the budget under control.   I know from experience how in a couple years you wish you had bought the faster cpu and graphics card. And with technology changing so quickly often times your motherboard will no longer support upgrading to a new cpu etc when you do have the money. Been there and done that. CPU sockets change, memory specs change, power supply connections to the mother board change etc and etc. Trying to upgrade after three to four years can be a pain.

I considered buying the off the shelf HP computer but as I have built my last 3 from the case and motherboard on up I just could not bring myself to buying internal parts that were low quality and so I ended up here at Digital Storm.

    

Edited by 17blue17 - 05 Jan 2011 at 3:01pm