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Originally Posted by timholt
Men, I am absolutely overwhelmed by these responses - once again many thanks.
I had a look the Mag Naz mentioned yesterday, went straight over to the right hand column titled 'the beast', glanced down the bottom and saw $1500 plus. Thought this is not bad and went one column left (the beastie) and saw $2,975, rechecked the right hand column (the beast) again and its $15,615.
When the palpitations ceased I had a slower look at the beastie column and, without the periphials that I already have it is thus;
CPU Intel i7 2600 $339 or AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.4gh
Mobo Asus P8P67 Pro $239
Ram Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz (2 x 4Gb) $149
Video Gigabyte HD6950 (1GB) crossfire $640 ( but I read somewhere RoF does not like crossfire???????) or a Radeon 6950 2GB
Power Silverstone Strider 850W Gold $229
Samsung SH-B123A Blu-ray optical drive combo $69 (do I really need blu-ray for 2 flight sims only)
Storage WD Caviar Black 1TB $120
Case Coolmaster CM690 II Advantage $140
The only item not mentioned is a sound card.
Look OK gurus?
I will still take the advice of waiting for some feedback on CoD after release and some user comments but at least I feel some headway has been made, rather than head done in as per the previous 2 days.
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Not horrible but definitly overpriced. When you get a shop to assemble it for you, you have to know that you will most likely get screwed in some way. Also the ram is far too little -you want to aim for 6-8gb as the current sweet spot. I payed about over 3.3k for my machine and all its components about 5-6months ago and I have a i7-980x, 480gtx and 12gb of 1600mhz ram and EVGA 4 way sli mobo. So when I look at the cost of your machine to me it seems over priced (but thats why I didnt buy a pc off alienware also).
But overall I would say you should get minimum of 6gb of ram, might want to look at changing the gpu (I am not great with AMD gpus, so someone else should recommend) and check the RPM on the Hard drive. I was thinking of going either SSD or SATA2 raptors but instead I settled on a Western digital 2tb 7200rpm drive but with a 64mb cache, which makes it a really awesome harddrive for its size (its pretty fast).