Want opinions. Now I can't afford a 3000 - 5000 machine, this is less than 2000, and it works for what I need (Development and gaming).

CPU -
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K
Price: $219.99
STATUS: ORDERED

CPU Cooler -
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm CPU Cooler Compatible Intel Core i5 & Intel Core i7
Price: $49.99
STATUS: N/A

Motherboard -
ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Price: $159.99
STATUS: ORDERED

Graphics Card -
PNY XLR8 VCGGTX4601XPB-OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) OC 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Price $169.99
STATUS: ORDERED

Memory -
CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9
Price: $179.99
STATUS: ORDERED

Case -
Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Black Steel ATX Full Tower Unbeatable Gaming Case
Price: $159.99
STATUS: ORDERED

PSU -
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Price: $134.99
STATUS: ORDERED

System SSD -
Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Price: $234.99
STATUS: ORDERED

SSD Mount Kit -
Rosewill RX-C200 2.5” SSD / HDD Aluminum Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay
Price: $6.99
STATUS: ORDERED

Hard Drive #1 -
HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723015BLA642 (0F12114) 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Price: $64.99
STATUS: N/A

Hard Drive #2 -
HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723015BLA642 (0F12114) 1.5TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Price: $64.99
STATUS: N/A


That's the actual machine, didn't put blu-ray drives or anything up on here, or monitors, but this is the main shit. Can I get opinions from some of you guys who know a bit more. I'm not hardware, I only do software shit, so I may be off. CPU is already ordered

Two things (I'm slowly building my first machine as well)/

Why a 400 series and not a 500 series card?

Also why Asrock for the board?

Also kick ass memory :)

Passmark, 480 is rank #3 and cheaper than 1 and 2. Asrock board I read up on, good quality bored, great for overclocking, and has had great feedback over at newegg, and does everything I need it to do.

http://passmark.com/ is where I check up on all that. I5-2500k Quad core can do much better than the AMD Phenom II X6, then I read up about both sides, check what professionals and people who have used them say, etc. I'm more into software, so I'm not 100% efficient with hardware obviously.

Nice specs sphere, but theres no way an I5 qaud core is better than a Phenom 2 6 core. (quad might have faster processing speed, but 6 core is much better for future expandibilty.)

Dont be a retard, do not try to overclock that hardware, those I5's run hot and so does that video card. Not worth it trying to squeeze and extra 3 fps for games. You will just fry out all that shit and cry for years over it, dont be stupid. Its not 1995 anymore, not neccesary to overclock any modern machine.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... 40+3.30GHz

According to this site the 1090T is still a better value than the 2500K. I own the 1090T and it F*CKING kicks ass. I have it OC'd 4.3 with plently of room to go and I love it,

they are both great cores, but if im building a computer I'm always gonna take the most up-to date parts instead of out-dated hardware that works a little bit faster

the difference in 2-3 hundred MGhz once your in the 3-4Ghz range is not noticable one bit anyway, but to each his own

I know there is no reason to. According to benchmarks though the I5 does perform better, and as I prefer Intel over AMD, I had to go with it. As for the video card, there is no way I'm overclocking it, that's for sure. I may run dual, but There is no reason to OC a 480 that can play any games I play at full max with no issues. Hell my 260m in my Asus laptop plays most games at full settings without issues.


Also

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=146

True that,

I have two of those badboys in my laptop and 85% of the time they eat whatever I throw at them. Starting to lag a bit with more indepth games with DX11 and complex shadowing, shading, and lighting.

Things a beast but boy does it get hot.

This looks like my machine. I went with a superclocked 570, and less ram - no ssd, because they suck for extended reads. Instead I got a velociraptor 600gb I love the hell out of it. Enjoy. The 400 series card should be enough imo.

Edit: badguy, the amd 6 core isn't nearly as good as the sandy bridge, for anything you'd want to do. Check any legitimate benchmarking site like tom's hardware. It underperforms like nobody's business. The only thing it might, maybe, perform better on is huge CAD renders. Everything else it doesn't even come close to the competition. I had this argument with bleep when I was building my beast - and he proved me wrong.

dont need to look at any benchmarking to know 6 cores is better then 4, they sell the 6 cores at nearly the same clock speed as intels quad-cores.
dont need to look at a benchmarking site to know that 3.3 Ghz = 3.3Ghz (no matter how many cores you have)
Also benchmarking sites are biased twards the products the site also sells.

Those programs used to run most of those tests are graphical and media software, and those tests show the results of video card/w processing power, so those scores are not measured accuratly because they are not run on the same platform with the same hardware specs, therfore you are going to get different results running media software on an intel chip with a geforce card, than lets say AMD chip with ATI. The benchmarks will not be the same and have more to do with memory and video power than processing speed, (which varys based on you power settings and programs you are running in the background

I have been working with computers for over 15 years and i can tell you theres really no difference in AMD or Intel, (certain years AMD chips go bad and some years its Intel) guess what chips are burning out the most right now? the I5's and I7's, thats why i said I do not recoment overclocking them, you wanna ignore my knowledge go right ahead, im trying to save your computer from yourself : )

also i just realized that last post comes off a little C*CK, didnt mean it like that really just trying to help, just weird when I offer advice and get told that I may be wrong about something: /

Updated, Ordered most of the parts, will be here thursday. Got everything except CPU cooler and the 1.5TB Drives. Also picked up a new 24" monitor. I don't plan to overclock CPU till I know what it can do without it.

I got the phenom and its F*CKING baller, and actually doesn't run nearly as hot as i expected. no need to OC but if so better have liquid cooling on everything. Aside from a motherboard brand i've never F*CKING heard of all this sounds pretty sweet.

My rig is somewhat identical except for i have the i72600k. The asrock extrem4 is one of the best mobos i have ever used.

I've got the GTX465. Runs pretty hot. But you'll love it. Runs every game I play on the highest settings without any issues. Can't say anything about the rest though. Sounds like a beast.

I was with you up until this statement. Historically, there has been a huge difference between AMD and Intel. The difference has become smaller with the release of Intel's QuickPath I/O and on-die memory controllers that came out with the "core" series and the newer Xeons, but there's still a pretty big difference.



I'd like to see where you're getting this information, because it seems pretty made up to me. I see a LOT of faulty hardware and know that the failure rates on CPUs of ANY type are extremely low. The most common cause of CPU failure? User error. Either a shitty installation, shorting out/bending the pins on the board, upping the voltage on the CPU too much, or heat = what kills CPUs. They very, VERY rarely just up-and-die without any user intervention.

Mainboard : ASRock P67 Extreme4
Chipset : Intel Sandy Bridge
Processor : Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3300MHz
Physical Memory : 16384MB (4 x 4096 DDR3-SDRAM )
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Hard Disk : C300-CTFDDAC128MAG ATA Device (128GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S
DVD-Rom Drive : ELBY CLONEDRIVE
Monitor Type : S243HL - 24 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Windows 7 Professional Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (64-bit)
DirectX : Version 11.00

She's done, and everything is ready to go.