New PC: What, Where, How Much?

[snpshot]

Try Cyberpower pc...use newegg to study the components you want to put in. I usually read most of the reviews before I buy anything. I bought a Gigabyte 890 board, amd 965 processor, 8 gb ripjaw pc 1333 ram, and a corsair 750 psu for my initial setup. The next step is the GPU, either a nvidia gtx 460 or hopefully a gtx 560 with 2 gb ram.

[Fangio]

Ok, I took some advice from here and other places and ordered a new system from ibuypower.com


NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case - White
Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
[6-Port] NZXT Internal USB Expansion System + Bluetooth Module
12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1600 - Corsair or Major Brand
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - 3GB - Single Card
[3-Way SLI] ASUS Rampage III Extreme w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16
1000 Watt -- Extreme Gaming Series
120 GB Intel X25-M MLC SSD - Single Drive
1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
[10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 - 64-Bit
ASUS USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter


Some other little stuff also included but that pretty much sums it up. That came in a decent bit under my budget and from all I could tell it should be able to run this game if not on the highest settings then pretty close, particularly if/when the game is better optimized. I also figure with the SLI capability I can always add another GPU card (dual 580's with 6GB VRAM would have to rock) later when prices come down. I also think the motherboard can allow later upgrades (though not positive on this). The new system should be here within a week or so.

Anyhow, thanks again for all the the help!



Fang

[smink1701]

I think you made a great choice. Let me know what you think when you get it fired up.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by snpshot

Try Cyberpower pc...use newegg to study the components you want to put in. I usually read most of the reviews before I buy anything. I bought a Gigabyte 890 board, amd 965 processor, 8 gb ripjaw pc 1333 ram, and a corsair 750 psu for my initial setup. The next step is the GPU, either a nvidia gtx 460 or hopefully a gtx 560 with 2 gb ram.

you should be able to drop a bulldozer chip in your current MB
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=20482