$3500 Budget

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AFgamer

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I'm about ready to come home from a deployment and have a lil bit of extra cash to play with. I plan on building my own computer and this is the first time I am attempting to do so. I plan on doing heavy gaming, some overclocking, research for some of my classes, etc. and want to spend as close to $3500 on it w/o going over. This is what I have come up with after help from friends and family

Tt Kandalf LCS Case
ASUS P5N32-E 650i Mobo
Intel E6600 CPU
EVGA 8800GTX KO GPU
SeaSonic M12 700W PSU
2 gigs of G. Skill DDR2 PC2 (8000) Ram
Western Digital Raptor X 10k RPM 150G HDD
PLEXTOR 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer soundcard
Logitech G7 Mouse
Logitech G15 Keyboard
20" Acer Monitor
Logitech Z-5500 505 Watts 5.1 Speaker
Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2b
AS5 Thermal Paste/Grease

All that puts me at about $3100. Any Ideas on what I could use the other $400 for that would help out the system?

P.S. I plan to build my own Liquid Cooling System as well, but that has a seperate $300 budget.
 
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ghost

Active Member
All that puts me at about $3100. Any Ideas on what I could use the other $400 for that would help out the system?
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buy 2x Western Digital Raptor X 10k RPM 150G HDD`s and run them in RAID 0?

or 2x Western Digital Raptor X 10k RPM 74G HDD`s, run them in RAID 0 and then get a 200GB SATA2 HDD for storage?

or get a Intel 6800 CPU?
 
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zaroba

Member
only 150gb storage? eww.


personally, i'd go with something like:

Asus p5n32-e mobo - $199.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131153

g-skill 4gb ram (2x2gb) - $389.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820231112

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz - $846
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819115017

Lian-Li PC-V2100B Plus II - $266
(available on pricewatch.com, but the site selling them is down currently)

Seagate Barracuda 500gb SATA Hard Drive - $149.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148136

GeForce 8800GTX - $579.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143080

2x 19" LCD monitors (standard not widescreen, since theres less height with widescreen) - 509.98
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Blu-Ray Burner - $569.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106037


all the above equals $3520.17
which leaves around about 280 for a 650watt PSU and shipping costs
 
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investorofmercy

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zaroba said:
only 150gb storage? eww.


personally, i'd go with something like:

Asus p5n32-e mobo - $199.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131153
for this ram, you need a 680i MOBO
g-skill 4gb ram (2x2gb) - $389.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820231112
pc2 6400 seems slow for this setup...why not something in a pc 8000
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz - $846
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819115017
good choice but wait for the price drop
Lian-Li PC-V2100B Plus II - $266
(available on pricewatch.com, but the site selling them is down currently)
a case is so personal

Seagate Barracuda 500gb SATA Hard Drive - $149.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148136
so slow for this system
GeForce 8800GTX - $579.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143080

2x 19" LCD monitors (standard not widescreen, since theres less height with widescreen) - 509.98
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375
why not a 24" widescreen for about the same price
Blu-Ray Burner - $569.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106037
just why?

all the above equals $3520.17
which leaves around about 280 for a 650watt PSU and shipping costs
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but it is fun to do
 
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Styrak

New Member
3500 is a LOT of money, and you should be able to get a MUCH better system than your original post. Go and look on websites like tigerdirect and newegg, etc to get a better idea on what parts cost.
 
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zaroba

Member
according to the box the p5n32 it can take 533, 800, or 1033 speed ram. so that g-skill ram 'should' work with it.

as for the monitor, a 24" widescreen would only give you about the height of a 19" standard, maybe an inch or so more, plus maybe 50% more width. overall, 2 standard 19" lcd monitors would be much wider then a single 24" widescreen and provide more desktop space.
plus, theres much cheaper 19" lcds out there, i only linked to the one with the fastest response time. could go with one that has a 8ms response and it'd be nearly half the price.
 
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Shadowhunter

Shadowhunter

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Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811133154
PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817256009
CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819115011
MOBO:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813188009
RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145168
GPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130072
HDD's:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822136034
&
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144701
DVD's:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16827136108 x2
OS:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16832116142
Monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824009094
Sound:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16829102006

Subtotal: $3400
 
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