Thinking about building my own PC

PotatoSalad

PotatoSalad

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I built a PC a few years ago that has died and needs replacing. Thing is, I'm not sure what parts to buy. I'll need everything including an OS but excluding a monitor, mouse and keyboard. This PC will be used mostly for gaming so anything that can play today's games and future games on max settings is necessary. My budget is anywhere from $1500 to $2000 Canadian but if you go over it's no big deal. This is not something that needs to be done as fast as possible so if some major parts are expected to drop in price in a month or so I'd be willing to wait. Any help you guys can offer me is extremely appreciated. I've spent some time looking up parts myself but things seem pretty overwhelming.
 
 
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bluecity said:
These links are not working on my end...goes to neweggs home page
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You can Right Click and open from the menu that appears (picked that up here from bomberboy).

As far as the build, I'm a noob but can say that the parts you are working with are very popular in this forum and I'm compiling parts from a very similiar list. Any thoughts on your case and heatsink?

I make the same comment every time, but you can save $75'ish by getting that CPU from MicroCenter (if they have them in Canada?).
 
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bluecity said:
These links are not working on my end...goes to neweggs home page
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Hmm, they are working for me. Weird.

BillOhio said:
You can Right Click and open from the menu that appears (picked that up here from bomberboy).

As far as the build, I'm a noob but can say that the parts you are working with are very popular in this forum and I'm compiling parts from a very similiar list. Any thoughts on your case and heatsink?

I make the same comment every time, but you can save $75'ish by getting that CPU from MicroCenter (if they have them in Canada?).
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I'm not sure about the case or heatsink, don't know where to start really or what to look for in them. Any ideas?

Looks like MicroCenter doesn't ship to Canada.
 
So maybe I'll pick up that same heat sink as well but I'll look at different cases. What should I look for in a case? I'm generally a cheap bastard and I could care less what the thing looks like as long as it does its job and is a good price I'd be happy.
 
Maybe this. You can find a lot of cases with decent ratings for under $70. It's hard to make suggestions as that's such a personal preference call.
 
All of your parts are very good. But there is just one thing I would change, and that is the graphics card. I would personally buy the XFX brand, it is a better performing card, always has been, and always will be. It is a XFX 5870 1 GB 256bit, but it is a XFX which says it all. Here is a link to the one I think you should get, it is $432 but totally worth it. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150487

Although it does require a power supply of minimum 500 watts, but I think yours will handle it.

Further on, all your parts are excellent and you will be able to play all the newest games on full for quite a while
 
Don_69 said:
All of your parts are very good. But there is just one thing I would change, and that is the graphics card. I would personally buy the XFX brand, it is a better performing card, always has been, and always will be. It is a XFX 5870 1 GB 256bit, but it is a XFX which says it all. Here is a link to the one I think you should get, it is $432 but totally worth it. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150487

Although it does require a power supply of minimum 500 watts, but I think yours will handle it.

Further on, all your parts are excellent and you will be able to play all the newest games on full for quite a while
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Tried looking for some performance differences between the two cards but didn't find much while at work. Know how much they differ?
 
They do not differ much, The XFX has a bus speed of 5000MHz where the His has 4800Mhz and so on. But the XFX cards are factory tuned so they always perform better even if they have the same specs. With most cards that are close in comparison, the better brand usually handles your anti-aliasing setting better.
 
And another fyi to remember for fun, is that if you are looking at buying a stock standard ATi, made by themselves, then you can go for a Sapphire, They are the closest to the real thing, almost exactly the same, just less expensive. And if you want to show off with a standard card, then buy yourself an Asus, it is also very close to a normal ATi but quite expensive.
 
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