Dude. I would never spend 10K on a computer, that is mad
As I said. I have the money and more if needed.
I'm buying it for myself, not for my friends. I already have a better computer than my friends.
And this is not a monster computer or anything, I'm not spending 8K on it as it takes to upgrade everything to the max.
And my friends don't even have 50% of the power..
Well, once you get it...be sure to let us all know how it's working out for you. Sounds like a really nice setup.
You won't need the water cooling for a 20 percent overclock. I'm running a 35% overclock on air and have no problems with cooling, even at higher clocks. Water cooling makes a bigger difference on the GPU's but it's still not worth messing with in my opinion. It greatly complicates things for very marginal gains.
pparks1: I will, thanks for being active here :)
chev65: The cooling isn't possible to remove from my config on the site (i know, it's stupid) It's a pretty cheap one though, don't think it will be a problem. I mean, is it a problem for my system?
And yeah, one question: What do you think of the caviar green serie? I've seen many complaints about it being slow, but I guess that's what makes it cheaper than the black serie.
There really isn't that much difference in terms of price between a green and a black series drive. The green series is marketed towards lower power consumption...but we are only talking about a few watts (like 5 or less usually). At NewEgg, the 1GB Caviar Black is $89 with a 5 year warranty and the Green 1TB is $69 with a 3 year warranty. For $20, I'll take more performance and a longer warranty.
Dude i never said that. And I'm not into being a "good" gamer.
I play almost only single player games like rpg's and campaigns on fps games.
I rarely play online, and when I do it's on trackmania united forever.
I want this system to enjoy my games & programs to the max, not to impress anyone.
@hawkin90: I don't really think you have to justify this purchase to any of us. Just understand where we are coming from....we are trying to make sure that you realize that you won't be in for a huge performance increase with this new purchase as your current rig is more than decent. We aren't trying to give you a hard time to be jerks...but just trying to ensure that you understand that your gains are going to be small for the investment.
I mean, I'm somewhat into gaming and my box is only 1 year old. Technically I would have to upgrade to even get to where you are today...but I know that for what I do with the computer....the cost of upgrading (while fun to piece together a new machine and do a new wiring job), just won't blow me away as my current rig is a great performing box. I don't see me upgrading anything for at least 1 more year maybe 2.
Well they are not small for me as I can now run more games on max settings and the highest resolution. The graphic change is actually pretty big from the system I have now.
Yes, sometimes it's good to be critical :)
I'm also planning on getting a monitor with a higher resolution (2560x1600) sometime later this year, and for that this build is better than the one I have now. And the case is much more a self-build than my dell, So I will probably make most of the upgrades myself, when I want new hardware.
EDIT: My box is also 1 year old.
Hopefully. But I think that you will find that it won't be as dramatic as you think. I think that's what the guys with experience are trying to say. I think the video card will really be your upgrade.
I spent $1,192 on my box in June of 2009. This included $189 for a Vista 64-bit Ultimate OEM copy with a free upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate. Since then, I added a $289 SSD...so my build is just under $1,500 counting the OS...or $1290 for just the hardware.
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