Computer price?

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jinweifan

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My first post and i would like some people to see if i got rip off or not and how good my computer really is compared to average desktops.
My comp info:
iBUYPOWER Labs - Internal Expansion iBUYPOWER Internal USB Expansion System
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 950 Processor (4x 3.06GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling Liquid CPU Cooling System [SOCKET-1366] - [Free Upgrade] Standard 120mm Fan
Memory 12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1333 - Corsair or Major Brand ** FREE Upgrade to Corsair XMS3 Dominator **
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 - 1GB - Single Card ** FREE Upgrade to GTX 460 2GB Single Card **
Video Card Brand Major Brand Powered by ATI or NVIDIA
Motherboard [SLI] MSI X58 PRO-E
Motherboard USB / SATA Interface Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface
Power Supply 1000 Watt -- Extreme Gaming Series
Primary Hard Drive 40 GB ADATA S599 MLC SSD - Single Drive
Data Hard Drive 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 16M Cache, 7200 RPM, 3.0Gb/s - Single Drive ** FREE Upgrade to 1TB SATA-III 64M Cache Single Drive **
Optical Drive 24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black
Sound Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Network Card [was: $139] Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-bit

Advanced Build Options Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Achieve exceptional airflow in your chassis
Advanced Build Options Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Basic Pro Wiring
I got this for around $1.8k
 
Can you cancel the order? What Country? I don't like a 40GB SSD. The GPU is getting to be average. CPU just became last generation.

You got one hell of a PSU.

I don't know so much about the rest. You could of saved some money (lot's) I think.
 
I am a notebook guy so only know so much.

I would if building new highly recommend you get a SandyBridge CPU i7 2600 very nice but even i5 2500 rocks

I would get a larger SSD. Because of the way the flash technology works they slow down (mostly writes) when they start filling up. They have improved this but it is a fundamental characteristic when you can't do page writes and stuck doing block writes. 40GB fils up way to fast. If larger SSD's are out of budget I say get a much larger SSH (hybrid) drive or standard HDD.

I don't really like the 460 but that is just my thought, if you want fine.

If you get that PSU you better have some serious plans for upgrades in the near future or I would get a much smaller one. A couple other threads going with builds some mention budget. Have a look at what others are getting at certain price points.

I have no comments on the case I don't know about that stuff. RAM looks fine to me.
 
powerpack said:
I am a notebook guy so only know so much.

I would if building new highly recommend you get a SandyBridge CPU i7 2600 very nice but even i5 2500 rocks

I would get a larger SSD. Because of the way the flash technology works they slow down (mostly writes) when they start filling up. They have improved this but it is a fundamental characteristic when you can't do page writes and stuck doing block writes. 40GB fils up way to fast. If larger SSD's are out of budget I say get a much larger SSH (hybrid) drive or standard HDD.

I don't really like the 460 but that is just my thought, if you want fine.

If you get that PSU you better have some serious plans for upgrades in the near future or I would get a much smaller one. A couple other threads going with builds some mention budget. Have a look at what others are getting at certain price points.

I have no comments on the case I don't know about that stuff. RAM looks fine to me.
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i7-2600k and i5-2500k, remember that, or else no overclocking
 
Certainly if OC I say yes guys. OP did you see? OC is fun so consider. The CPU cost difference is not much. I have no idea of MoBo cost difference.
 
You could do a lot better for the price, yeah.

I imagine the 12GB of RAM and windows 7 ultimate drove the price up quite a bit though...why bother with either?
 
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