Build me a new Desktop!

Jay

Jay

Posting from my new rig. It's been a fun experience setting it up. I should be done transfering all my files and configuring Windows 7 to my leisure. Pictures will be incoming, feedback as well.

Yes, I'm terribly slow but it is also work's busy season. When I get home I barely am inclined to cook dinner, much less setup my PC with enthusiasm. Did it tonight though. :)
 
Jay

Jay

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I'm going to get a better heat sink for my CPU sometime soon, looking forward now that Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit is installed. Going to first transfer my data and then play with benchmarks. Then once I get the fan, gonna overclock a bit.

Gigabyte boards are so sweet.
 
Jay

Jay

This rig is beast. Can't wait for the weekend to get some quality DX11 gaming. What I've seen so far has been bonerific.
 
B

BErt

Nice rig Jay! Keep us up to date as you get used to it. I just built something around the i5 2500k last week:

CPU: i5 2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz
MB: Biostar TP67B+
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer II 650W
RAM: PNY Optima 8GB DDR3-1333
GPU: EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 1024MB

I was going for cheap and effective. I skimped on the video card because I don't plan on running much more than large photoshop files. I was all ready to keep it under $700 and then I let a few people talk me into an SSD for the boot drive. I love it, but I'm really not familiar with SSD yet, and while researching I made the switch from ide to ahci after windows 7 install and now it just seems...off. I'm hesitant to do a reinstall so I'm still playing with settings but I'm guessing I'll end up caving and redoing it all.

But if anyone is considering a new build and was debating SSD, I definitely recommend it for the boot drive if you can afford it.
 
Jay

Jay

SSD will be something I'll consider next rig, right now, it's too limiting in capacity for the price.
 
B

BErt

I agree. I maybe should have added that I only got 64GB for an extra $100, but as I said I don't plan on running much on it. Windows 7 64bit, Office 2010, and CS5 is really all that is going on that drive, so I felt it was worth the extra expense. If you're going to run games or programs with a high install then it makes more sense to wait.
 
Jay

Jay

Nah, I was checking this thread since I've been getting little pang of WANT for a new PC next year and I recalled this thread. Saw that I wasn't giving the appropriate amount of positive feedback back in the day, tried to make up for it.

You're a good bro.

That will be all.
 
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