Topic: Where do you go for components?

[Mike]

Looking to get a new box.  I think for this one I'm gonna go back and look at parting it out.  Need recommendations of places to find the components.

[ober]

www.newegg.com

Tried Tiger Direct a few times and was disappointed.  I've also used www.buy.com a few times.

[KnuckleBuckett]

New Egg and Amazon.  Usually comes down to shipping.  My last PC was almost all amazon.

I would recommend something like...

- Intel Core i5-750 Quad Core or an AMD Phenon II x6.  $200 or slightly less

- Nvidia 460 series video solution ($200 to 230) Nothing wrong with AMD/ATI here you just get more bang for the $ with Nvidia at this point in time.

- 1TB HDD, 32M cache, 7200 RPM ($70)

- Asus or Gigabyte mobo (not that there aren't other great companies) ($150 to 230)

- 4GB of DDR3 ($70 and up)

- Some sort of DVD burner ($15 to 25)

 - Case with at least (did I say at least?) three 120mm fans installed in it ($70 and up)

I find that Coolermaster, NZXT, and Antec are the best overall case manufacturers for the money.

[hans]

Almost exclusively newegg.com but sometimes I'll pick it up at the local MicroCenter if the prices are the same and I want it sooner.  (and CPUs are often much cheaper there for in-store purchase)

Be careful about the cpu/mb combo you get if you're looking for onboard video (you're probably not), I made that mistake when building our dev "server" here at work when I went with the i7 and found out it doesn't support integrated video and the board needed an i5 to use it.

[JaWiB]

I just built a new PC almost entirely off of newegg. Would have been entirely, but somehow I forgot to order ram so I ended up getting RAM from tigerdirect.

[drakkenkorin]

http://www.altex.com/

local company we used to go to