My New Toy

Nothing to do with UT-2004 other than I'm building to play games.

My New Computer.

Rosewill Challanger Gaming Case.
Rosewill Hive Series 650 Modular power supply.
ASRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen 3 Motherboard
Intel Sandy Bridge G620 Duel Core 2.6 GHz
Corsair Vengenance Memory 8 x 2, 16 gigs.
Wester Digital 500GB Carver Blue 7200 6gig transfer rate.
EVGA 02G-P3-1559-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 192-bit GDDR5
Windows 7 Home Prem

Graphic card is on order and not shown in picture.

Sweet. Hope that OS is of 64bit flavor...

Very nice setup.

Flak Monkey wrote:

Sweet. Hope that OS is of 64bit flavor...

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

The OEM version is what is sold to New Equipment Manufactures and does not have the bloatware the retail versions have. In other words it's a clean copy of just the operating system.

Also the OEM is less expensive due to the license agreement. Microsoft does not offer any support for this product. It is the equipment manufactures responsibility to support it. I.E. Me

Microsoft will give 90 days of support for the retail version at of course an extra cost of the retail version.

In other words the OEM version cost me $79.00 on sale at New Egg

When will you have it ready?

is that screwless drive locks for the 5.5 drives....sweet

The computer is running now! It's just running with the Intel HD Graphics. It will even play UT-2004 with out the graphics card.

Yes it is a screw-less case as far as the drive bays.

The case sells for $49.99, I got it on sale with the Rosewill Hive 650wt Modular power supply for $109.00 with free shipping. The power supply normally list for $89.99

Picture of the backside before I finished tiding up the wiring. Also a sales picture of the case.

Received and installed my new Graphics Card today.

EVGA GTX550 Ti 2048 GDDR5

well I'm thinking of doing a close/cash out of a workers comp claim and get like 8.5k so I'll have some money for a new rig..( told wife if I did it I WOULD build me a new comp!) Now all I gotta do is start drooling and decide what i want in it, let alone what case! And fountunatly the move I did put me about 1 hr away from a Fry's store in Sac!

dom60 wrote:

well I'm thinking of doing a close/cash out of a workers comp claim and get like 8.5k so I'll have some money for a new rig..( told wife if I did it I WOULD build me a new comp!) Now all I gotta do is start drooling and decide what i want in it, let alone what case! And fortunately the move I did put me about 1 hr away from a Fry's store in Sac!

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dom60 wrote:

well I'm thinking of doing a close/cash out of a workers comp claim and get like 8.5k so I'll have some money for a new rig..( told wife if I did it I WOULD build me a new comp!) Now all I gotta do is start drooling and decide what i want in it, let alone what case! And fountunatly the move I did put me about 1 hr away from a Fry's store in Sac!

The first decision you have to make is which processor family you are going with. Intel or AMD. I've only had one computer with the AMD processor and it was an off the shelf purchase for my wife. I never did care for the AMD's.

The the choice is which processor. The Sandy Bridge chips all seem good. All use the 1155 socket including the Sandy Bridge I3 through I7.

But don't count out the Pentium chips that are available, the g630 I'm using is running at 2.7 ghz and is only drawing 65 watts of power and I paid less than $60.00 for it. The Mother board and cpu I chose played UT-2004 with out a graphics card.

Now the hard choice, Motherboards. There at tons of them out there. The Z68 series seem to do everything out there and depending on the board they will support the Sandy Bridge to the new Ivy Bridge processors.

The biggest money I spent on one item was the graphics card.

New Egg is a good place to browse, Also get on there specials E-mail list they have good specials ever week.

well I am currently running a amd 1700+ that runs at 1.47 ghz with 1.5 gig mem and a ati 1050 vid card w/256mb and this system is like the bottom side of UT's range for play! and it's not even in the list for ut3 but I can play the demo to a point.

need a new case with front ports..kinda like the idea of a bottom mounted PS. but basicly need to make a all new system.

Dom, you can do almost anything you want. Build it yourself or buy off the shelf.

Just for grins and giggles, I looked at Wallmart's gaming computers and was a little suprised.

CyberPowerPC Gamer Ultra Desktop PC, GLC1802 Aqua (Liquid Cooling):

Key Features and Benefits:

Intel Core i7-3820 processor
3.60GHz, 10MB L3 Cache
16GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory
2TB SATA hard drive / 60GB solid state drive
Blu-ray Disc Player and DVD-RW Drive
10/100/1000 Ethernet
AMD Radeon HD7950 Graphics With 3GB of graphics memory
Liquid Cooling
12-in-1 memory card reader
4 x USB 3.0 ports, 8 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x headphone jack, 1 x microphone jack, 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port, 2 x PS/2 jacks, 1 x optical S/PDIF port, 1 x IEEE 1394 jack, 1 x eSATA jack
2 x PCI slots, 2 x PCI Express (x1) slots, 3 x PCI Express (x16) slots, 4 x dim 240-pin slots
Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition (To learn more about the features of Windows 7, click here)
Microsoft Works 9
Backup and Restore options built into Windows allow you to create safety copies of your most important personal files, so you're always prepared for the worst
1-year limited warranty

All for $1,750.00...............
They have CyberPower 11 gaming machines with the lowest one selling for under $500.00. CyberPower has been getting some raves in the gaming community for their machines.

Hmmmmm I usually like to build mine that way I get what i want for cheaper but since i do get 10% discount from Wally I might have to check that out.

Oh by the way what is the scoop on the new A series chips from AMD? the cpu/gpu ones and whats better them or the FX series chips?