Building a new comp with my tax return

MrBucket

MrBucket

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So i finally got my tax return and figured the computer i have now is getting quite outdated (it's about 5 years old. . . ya). My total budget is around $600 US $650 at the very very most but wouldn't like to push it unless I NEED to. My monitor is only a 19" and its max resolution is only 1280x768 so i don't need an extremely powerful piece of hardware. I might get a larger display later on but it's not of concern right now, I'm just tired of struggling with everything I try to do. I have a basic build now but if you guys see anything that would help me out i would really appreciate it, I'm fairly tech savvy but not up to date with ALL the new hardware that's come out lately. So my build so far is:

Rosewill R6426-P BK ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive - OEM
Foxconn A7DA-S AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
MSI R4850-512M OC Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
KINGWIN ABT-730MM 730W ATX / BTX SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL6D-4GBNQ - Retail
AMD Phenom 9950 Agena 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor - Retail

I'll probably end up getting another 4850/4870 and/or another hard drive but that all depends. I've never really bought all the parts of a computer and put them together from the ground up but I've been upgrading and such so I'm not to worried about that. I have an operating system so no need to worry about that. I'm just wondering if I'm missing anything i.e. extra cables which i would assume would come with everything I've got. I'm not trying to make an EXTREME machine to max out Crysis, just enough to play some newer games and photoshop here and there. Let me know what your guys think, thanks alot!
 
Drop the Hitachi. Go with a Western Digital or Seagate.

Drop the Foxconn. Go with a Gigabyte/ Asus/ DFI

Drop the Kingwin. Go with a Corsair/ PC Power & Cooling/ Silverstone/ OCZ/

Drop the Phenom 9950. Go with a Phenom II 720 or 810

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128387

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341019

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103650
 
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103650
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136058

Alright I've picked these out instead, i'm up to $680, i could muster the extra couple of bucks if it's REALLY worth it. But your sure these will work together properly, I've just been skeptical of the whole Phenom II with AM2+ boards, i haven't done much research it but just wondering.

:EDIT: Oops sorry i didn't even see those links you posted, i didn't scroll down all the way, ill check those out.
 
I updated the build and chose everything you suggested and went for the Phenom II X4 810 and i'm up to $640. Seems fairly reasonable, and I'm surprised i didn't see that AM3 board you suggested, that takes a load off my back ha, thanks a lot man
 
I worked some magic and took use of neweggs "combo deals", and for the same price got the 810, a 4870, this board. If worse comes to worst, i might splurge later a better board but they're so cheap lately but i just can't spend that extra 50 bucks for the DDR3 board. Most of the benchmarks i've been looking at aren't showing that memory is a real culprit of bottlenecking for right now, maybe later down the road that may be the case, but i'm just hoping i can do without DDR3 for atleast a year, as i won't be submitting my machine to anything THAT hardcore. My final totals going to be $695.88-$60(Mail-in-Rebate)=$635.88. I expected there to be a decent chunk of Mail-in-Rebates so that's why i was saying my highest budget point would be $650, because in newegg terms 635.88 actually equals 695.88 when cashing out. Thanks for help Stranghold, you definitly help me bump of my system a few notches for not much more cash
 
MrBucket said:
I worked some magic and took use of neweggs "combo deals", and for the same price got the 810, a 4870, this board. If worse comes to worst, i might splurge later a better board but they're so cheap lately but i just can't spend that extra 50 bucks for the DDR3 board. Most of the benchmarks i've been looking at aren't showing that memory is a real culprit of bottlenecking for right now, maybe later down the road that may be the case, but i'm just hoping i can do without DDR3 for atleast a year, as i won't be submitting my machine to anything THAT hardcore. My final totals going to be $695.88-$60(Mail-in-Rebate)=$635.88. I expected there to be a decent chunk of Mail-in-Rebates so that's why i was saying my highest budget point would be $650, because in newegg terms 635.88 actually equals 695.88 when cashing out. Thanks for help Stranghold, you definitly help me bump of my system a few notches for not much more cash
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Thats a good motherboard to begin with:P Gigabyte boards are awesome, by the way... For a $10 bucks more than the seagate you can get a higher capacity western digital:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136298
 
MrBucket said:
I worked some magic and took use of neweggs "combo deals", and for the same price got the 810, a 4870, this board. If worse comes to worst, i might splurge later a better board but they're so cheap lately but i just can't spend that extra 50 bucks for the DDR3 board. Most of the benchmarks i've been looking at aren't showing that memory is a real culprit of bottlenecking for right now, maybe later down the road that may be the case, but i'm just hoping i can do without DDR3 for atleast a year, as i won't be submitting my machine to anything THAT hardcore. My final totals going to be $695.88-$60(Mail-in-Rebate)=$635.88. I expected there to be a decent chunk of Mail-in-Rebates so that's why i was saying my highest budget point would be $650, because in newegg terms 635.88 actually equals 695.88 when cashing out. Thanks for help Stranghold, you definitly help me bump of my system a few notches for not much more cash
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Yeah sure thats a fine board. Right now there is not much performance difference between the two.
 
It's not that I don't mind rebates, i just tried to keep them at a minimum. I just ordered everything a few hours ago so now I'm kinda pissed about that 640GB WD that you found bombboysk ha, it's not that big of a deal tho no worries. I'm just really happy I got the Phenom II, which I actually disregarded getting until i realized i could work with some of my other parts to drive the price down. Beyond that i didn't expect to get a 4870 either, things seem to be working out very well for me with this build, let's just hope there's no RMA's ha. The only thing that seems to be "lacking" in my build that i would of liked to get a DDR3 board but it was just a bit out of my price range, no biggie tho.
 
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