Topic: Thinking of upgrading my PC

[KnuckleBuckett]

I emailed ya stuff.

The case I have used twice now.  Aluminum, easy to add a couple dry swiffers for filters, plenty of room to hide cables under the mobo, nice cooling, looks great in white or black, and the buttons are top quality.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146076

I put 140mm fans in the top and a 120mm in the back and fronts. 

Bumped the GPU to a 770.  This is where you want to spend the money.

Thew in a big SSD for shits and giggles.

Without the SSD, if you shop using Amazon I would guess you will come in at 1100 to 1200...ish.

[KnuckleBuckett]

Just built one of these with most of this setup at work two weeks ago for a test tech.

[ober]

Yeah I go back and forth on the SSD.  Would I load all my games on that drive and use the normal drive for regular storage?  And other than load times, does it really help otherwise?

Like I said, I'm not looking to do this for a few more months so maybe some of these prices will come down too. But the list you sent me is right in the range I was looking for.

I might ask you to review that list again closer to the time but I agree with the bump in video.

[ober]

Slight change of plans. Just had a budget meeting with the Mrs. Considering that we are refinancing the house and we are going to be skipping two mortgage payments, I might pull the trigger in the next few weeks when we close!

[KnuckleBuckett]

You want me to build it?  I can and would have no issue getting things ordered and built.  Be sure to add an OS so that I can have it finished.  Get me your Origin account info and I can have installed and BF3 ready also.

If you are serious, I will spend time to get the build carefully tuned and Amazoned.

A 25x GB SSD may be a great way to go for your main HDD how much storage do you need?My advise disregarding the extra few bucks is to use a 25xGB HDD as your windows, app, and gaming drive.  Get a 1TB for pure storage only.  Every so often have your Docs backed up and you are good to go with years of iterations.  As it fills delete the oldest.

[ober]

I doubt it at this point. I'd have to pay for shipping to you and then pay for shipping out here and then kicking in for your time and bumping up the parts is already pushing my budget a little over and I haven't added windows 7.

I don't need a ton of storage. I think I have a half TB total now and I have plenty of room. Maybe I just splurge on the 240 ssd as my main and use my existing drive as my secondary until I need more.

[KnuckleBuckett]

Good move going with just the SSD.

I Amazoned the purchase and using all Prime parts it came out less expensive than NE.

I see no reason you can't build it in a couple hours.  Using that case makes it pretty easy.  I built Craig's at work in three hours or so and that included installing the OS and base mobo drivers.  Which we obtained online.  Never use the discs that come with the hardware.

If you order the parts you will have them in 1 - 3 days.

As far as shipping I would have just given it to you when you drove down.

[ober]

I don't think I'm going to be in your area until the fall, unfortunately.

Still thinking about the drives.  I currently have less than .5TB, but I think I'm giving my machine to my wife... argh.  I do have other drives though.  I have to think some more.  I think I'm targeting mid-July to make the purchase so I'm going to be poking around with a lot until then.

By the way, one of the newegg builds you sent me had Win 8.  Seriously?  I'm thinking Win 7 Home.

[KnuckleBuckett]

I emailed you a detailed reply.

The short of it is that Win 8 is here to stay and Win 9 will just be more of it.  Get over it and move on.  Win 8.1 addresses the largest issues anyway.

On my upcoming full wipe and install I am moving to 8 (8.1).  It is easy to install, has great driver support, and boots like lightning.