Building new PC!

[LukaszR1]

$1700-$2000

i want water cooling too!

and anyplace cheap

for water cooling...do you do a lot of OCing?? otherwise like i was told here on the forums, its not necessary at all.

 

[Teny]

if you get a 4870 get the 1GB version so it doesnt run out of ram

for some reason on a review (forget the name) on some big tracks on Race Driver GRID when the settings are cranked, it cant run it corretcly because it uses the 512MB on te GPU and will corrupt

actually, it was more of the ATI drivers.

 

[_-..zKiLLA..-_]

like i said go post up here www.bit-tech.net for your water cooling but make sure you tell them your in the US because its a UK site. and rohan if he has the money for a GTX280 then thats a good choice considering hes getting a triple SLI motherboard. so in a while he can eventually SLI his GTX's. i totally forgot about the PSU.

heres a good future proof PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

 

[AznStyle]

Hey Welcome to the forums

heres ur parts

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188027

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143141

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136149

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

just that comes out to 1065.95$ without tax or shipping. the res is up to you (monitor, mouse, speaker, etc.)

now for water cooling i would go here www.bit-tech.net. just go post around in the forums. everyone on that site has way more water cooling experience then us

Wow gee This is great!
What about Sound Cards?
Can You Please tell me a Good Water Cooler?
Do i even need it? I Just Dont Want Stuff To Over Heat.
And i Have Friends Helpling me Build it.
i Want A See Through Case! That Would Be great Thanks!

 

[Teny]

Wow gee This is great!
What about Sound Cards?
Can You Please tell me a Good Water Cooler?
Do i even need it? I Just Dont Want Stuff To Over Heat.
And i Have Friends Helpling me Build it.
i Want A See Through Case! That Would Be great Thanks!

if you arent going to do extreme OC, then air cooling will do fine. If you are going to slightly OC, then stock air cooling will be fine. Or if you are going to do some decent OC, then get an aftermarket HSF.

sound card (though not really needed)
Creative Sound Blaster SB0570 Audigy

Transparent Case (The one i want that i cant afford )
NZXT Apollo

You will get a couple of FPS gain in games if you have the soundcard since it has its own Processor so it takes some work off the CPU. But some people dont think $30 is worth the couple FPS

 

[AznStyle]

well. im not paying for this my mom is haha.
Umm What HardDrives Should i get?

 

[disturbed13]

take a browse through here for water cooling parts
http://www.koolance.com/default.php
and if you want a 1 TB HDD
then look here
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...?EdpNo=3333210&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#detailspecs
as for ram
how about 2 gigs for $20 after a rebate?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat....asp?CatId=2261&name=DDR2-Dual-Channel-Memory
and here is my suggestion for a sound card
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2687630
just my thoughts though

 

[Teny]

if it was me, i would spend as low as possible if my parents are paying. I dont like people spending over $100 just for me. But thats just me.

I would get the WD Caviar 160GB as my OS and installation, and the Samsung 500GB Spinpoint F1 as back-up.

 

[nevermind1534]

Get some WD Velociraptors to run in a RAID configuration.

 

[AznStyle]

Dont I need Some power Supply for it too?