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Opinions

PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:30 am
by Sinner0420
All this for $865 ($100 more for one with an i7 2600K) oh and a 1 year warranty is included
What do you think of the price and what kind of BF3 performance do you think this thing would get.

Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 Chassis
Power supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro M RS850
Cpu: Core i5 Quad-core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Desktop
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V PRO Desktop Motherboard - Intel
Cpu Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X Quiet CPU Cooler
Memory: HyperX KHX1600C9S3K2/8GX 8GB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard Drive #1: SSDNow V100 SV100S2/128GZ MLC Solid State Drive
Hard Drive #2: Western Digital Black Edition 1TB SATA3 6Gb/s 7200 RPM
Optical Drive #1: PLDS iHBS212 Internal Blu-ray Writer
Optical Drive #2: No Thanks
Nic Card: On Board
Sound Card: SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Sound Card PCI Express
Video Card: Asus EAH6870 DC/2DI2S/1GD5 Radeon HD6870 Graphics
Video Card #2: Asus EAH6870 DC/2DI2S/1GD5 Radeon HD6870 Graphics
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7™ Home Premium 64

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:36 pm
by ME.
Looks like a good build, though I would probably get an Intel SSD.
Thats a decent price aswell, an i5, SSD, and CrossFire for Under $900

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:35 pm
by DMPCo
could u post links for each piece of hardware price?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:13 pm
by Luninariel
I would personally toss that soundcard in the trash, Creative cards have always been very finicky with drivers and support... I'd swap that sound card for a good one, if you have no idea what IS a good one, and you can spot a troll well enough head over to www.4chan.org and visit the technology board. They have some serious audiophiles amongst their anon's They can point you in the right direction for a sound card, if you tell them what kind of sound setup you want, and what for.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:45 pm
by Cecil900
I have an x-fi card and love it. I havent had any driver problems with win7 64.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:54 pm
by Luninariel
I want the Asus Xonar essence STX 7.1. Awesome card built specifically for using headphones as your main audio source.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:51 pm
by Cecil900
Yeah, the ASUS sound cards are a good choice too.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:10 pm
by Sinner0420
DMPCo wrote:could u post links for each piece of hardware price?

It's actually one of X Gamer PC's pre-built rigs, you can customize it and It just adds a couple of bucks depending on which parts you select. I'm contemplating opening up my first line of credit EVER in order to purchase a good PC so I'm not left with a bouncing frame rate of 15 to 31 FPS in BF3 (thats on low low settings)

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:24 pm
by Sinner0420
Nevermind the price the website is messed up and not giving the proper price in the checkout that PC is really $1300

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:16 pm
by country_boy454
I thought the price was off just a bit. Still thats not bad for what your getting.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:32 pm
by DMPCo
country_boy454 wrote:I thought the price was off just a bit. Still thats not bad for what your getting.

same here thats why i was looking for links :icon_mrgreen:

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:41 pm
by Luninariel
When I built my first PC 5 years ago, I maxed out two credit cards for a total of 1200 bucks. I know the feel nukem haha, well whatever you do be sure not to max it out, as soul crushing debt, is exactly that haha.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:56 pm
by Drezzik
You know I back this setup Nukem :)

I would favour the branded gfx cards above the reference design followers - i.e. ASUS

Allows you to get extra juice if necessary :)