1st Build - Please help with suggestions, commentary etc.

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MMOFan

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This Build is costing me about 2600 USD. Is this a good deal? Please help me out with any changes you would make, comments etc. I'm intending to use it for Gaming Mainly. Thanks.


1 x Case ( NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case - White )
1 x Processor ( Intel® Core™ i7 970 Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache) )
1 x Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1366] - ARC Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow) )
1 x Memory ( 12 GB [4 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Vengeance )
1 x Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 - 1.2GB - Single Card )
1 x ASUS USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter )
1 x Motherboard ( [3-Way SLI] ASUS Rampage III Extreme w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16 )
1 x Motherboard USB / SATA Interface ( Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface )
1 x Power Supply ( 1000 Watt -- CoolerMaster RSA00-AMBAJ3-US )
1 x Primary Hard Drive ( 256 GB Kingston SSDNow V100 Series MLC SSD - Single Drive )
1 x Data Hard Drive ( 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )
1 x Optical Drive ( [10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black )
1 x 2nd Optical Drive ( 24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black )
1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black )
1 x Meter Display ( NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum Fan Control, Clock, and Temperature Display )
1 x Sound Card ( Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE )
1 x Network Card ( Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card )
1 x Operating System ( Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit )
 
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Good machine, but not really a good deal.
You're better off building it yourself. That way, the world is your chioce for each component.
For that kind of money..
Sandy Bridge-
Sata III SSD-
High quality power supply-
Water cooling probly unnessaccary, or, it wouldn't be that ^ one.
 
Why do you need 2 optical drives?
or a usb network adaptor and a network card?
Other than that, you should build it yourself, go sandy bridge, and i'd go air cooled.
 
Thank you both for your input:

As far as building it myself goes, I am way to afraid of screwing something up to do that. I also don't like the Idea of not having a warranty system in place to fall back on and wouldn't know how to trouble shoot issues with the PC hardware wise. I'm a NOOB.

As far as sandy bridge goes, the 970 seems to have benchmarked better than all of the 2nd Gens.

I did change the SSD to a SATA 3 for about 18 USD, It is now 256 GB ADATA S501 V2 SSD SATA 6 Gb/s.

I don't have many other options for the cooling system, and why would fan colling be preferable?

I did a little research and changed the power supply to 1000 Watt -- SilverStone ST1000-P. Is that a better choice?

The reason I have both the network card and adapter is because they are promotional free stuff.

I really do appreciate your help and further feedback. Thanks.
 
Everything looks good. AMD is realeasing a new line of processors and motherboards in about 3 weeks. This would give a bit more comparisome, and perhaps lower prices on your build.
 
MMOFan said:
Thank you both for your input:

As far as building it myself goes, I am way to afraid of screwing something up to do that. I also don't like the Idea of not having a warranty system in place to fall back on and wouldn't know how to trouble shoot issues with the PC hardware wise. I'm a NOOB.

As far as sandy bridge goes, the 970 seems to have benchmarked better than all of the 2nd Gens.

I did change the SSD to a SATA 3 for about 18 USD, It is now 256 GB ADATA S501 V2 SSD SATA 6 Gb/s.

I don't have many other options for the cooling system, and why would fan colling be preferable?

I did a little research and changed the power supply to 1000 Watt -- SilverStone ST1000-P. Is that a better choice?

The reason I have both the network card and adapter is because they are promotional free stuff.

I really do appreciate your help and further feedback. Thanks.
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I would personally go with air, because it is so much cheaper, and there is a lot less things to break in an air cooled system.
oh by the way, I'm jealous of your case.
 
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sandy bridge should faster than phenom II 970

You would probably find a $1500 - 2000 list faster than the one you building.
 
MMOFan said:
This Build is costing me about 2600 USD. Is this a good deal? Please help me out with any changes you would make, comments etc. I'm intending to use it for Gaming Mainly. Thanks.


1 x Case ( NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case - White )
1 x Processor ( Intel® Core™ i7 970 Processor (6x 3.20GHz/12MB L3 Cache) )
1 x Processor Cooling ( Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1366] - ARC Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow) )
1 x Memory ( 12 GB [4 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Vengeance )
1 x Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 - 1.2GB - Single Card )
1 x ASUS USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter )
1 x Motherboard ( [3-Way SLI] ASUS Rampage III Extreme w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16 )
1 x Motherboard USB / SATA Interface ( Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface )
1 x Power Supply ( 1000 Watt -- CoolerMaster RSA00-AMBAJ3-US )
1 x Primary Hard Drive ( 256 GB Kingston SSDNow V100 Series MLC SSD - Single Drive )
1 x Data Hard Drive ( 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive )
1 x Optical Drive ( [10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black )
1 x 2nd Optical Drive ( 24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black )
1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black )
1 x Meter Display ( NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum Fan Control, Clock, and Temperature Display )
1 x Sound Card ( Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE )
1 x Network Card ( Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card )
1 x Operating System ( Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit )
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i7 970 for gaming would be more than enough, but if you want just use it for gaming then i5 2500k is the best and would save you 300$
BTW i7 970 is a 6 core processor and is obviously benchmarked higher because these processors are benchmarked using programs which utilize all the cores. Gaming won't utilize 6 cores.
 
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2500K for the win. And they overclock to the shizz, so you'd probablhy end up with more power overall anyway. But there are some redundant items in the original build, would you be able to post an updated list for us to see? thanks
 
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