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I'm Going to Build a PC. Suggestions?
Innuendo:
Yes that is the one. By the way one minor frustration of that case is that it doesn't come with an external 3.5" bay.-Carol Haynes (April 02, 2012, 06:44 AM)
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Not much need for an external 3.5" drive bay these days. In these parts, it's hard to find anyone with a 3.5" floppy drive anymore.
Innuendo:
I have three monitors and have found very few games that don't play well. For the couple of games that don't play well pressing Win + P and choosing just one monitor to play on invariably fixes the problem.-Carol Haynes (April 02, 2012, 02:54 AM)
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Glad to hear that gaming has finally caught up with multiple monitors. Now if the game developers would let us hook up enough for a 360 degree view. :)
Carol Haynes:
Yes that is the one. By the way one minor frustration of that case is that it doesn't come with an external 3.5" bay.-Carol Haynes (April 02, 2012, 06:44 AM)
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Not much need for an external 3.5" drive bay these days. In these parts, it's hard to find anyone with a 3.5" floppy drive anymore.
-Innuendo (April 02, 2012, 08:59 AM)
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Not so much if you want a floppy - but if you want to add a multi card reader or an eSATA caddy for plugin drives ...
Antonimo:
For good up to date information about processors, go to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
For the money, the Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz is a very good performer.
I just built a system using AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core on an ASUS M5A786-M/USB3 motherboard with 2 x 4GB DDR3 SDRAM. With the included software, it can be easily overclocked. It is not as good as the Intel I mentioned above, but I shall be passing it on in about 6 months.
Word of warning about the case - Don't get a really cheap one as everything will be more difficult to fit. Especially look for the front connectors that you will want to have.
MilesOhToole:
For good up to date information about processors, go to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
For the money, the Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz is a very good performer.
I just built a system using AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core on an ASUS M5A786-M/USB3 motherboard with 2 x 4GB DDR3 SDRAM. With the included software, it can be easily overclocked. It is not as good as the Intel I mentioned above, but I shall be passing it on in about 6 months.
Word of warning about the case - Don't get a really cheap one as everything will be more difficult to fit. Especially look for the front connectors that you will want to have.
-Antonimo (April 03, 2012, 06:25 AM)
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If my budget allowed it, I'd go with an i7. And, WOW! $1650 for some of those processors?
So, how much did that PC cost you, if you don't mind me asking.
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