Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Buying a new PC online

I'm going to be buying a new PC from Ibuypower soon, and have customized this build for a little under $2000 (my limit)Case ( Tuniq Symmetry Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Black ) Case Lighting ( Cold Cathode Neon Light Green ) Power Supply ( 550 Watt -- Power Supply SLI Ready ) Processor ( Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 (2x 2.4GHz/4MB L2 Cache/1066FSB) ) Processor Cooling ( [=== Silent ===] Thermaltake V1 CPU Cooling Fan System Kit Silent %26 Overclocking Proof = Ultimate cooling performance + Smart CPU %26 System Thermal Management ) Motherboard ( Asus P5N-E SLI nForce?650i SLI Chipset w/6-channel CODEC, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394 Dual PCI-E MB ) Memory ( 2048MB [1024MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand ) Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB w/DVI + TV Out Video ) Hard Drive ( 500 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache] )CD/DVD Drive ( 16x DVD-ROM Drive Black ) CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( [** Special !!! ***] 18X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD盧/盧W + CD-R/RW Drive Black ) Sound Card ( Creative Lab Sound Blaster Audigy SE ) Speaker System ( [Black] Creative Labs SBS-580 5.1 Surround Speakers + Subwoofer ) Network Card ( Intel Pro 10/100/1000 Network Card ) Monitor ( LCD Monitor ViewSonic 19'' Q19WB Widescreen TFT LCD Monitor [Black] ) Keyboard ( Combo: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3000 Laser (MX3000 Cordless Keyboard + MX600 Cordless Laser Mouse) Silver/Black 2-Tone Color ) Flash Media Reader/Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Black )Is this any good? Or should I keep looking?Buying a new PC online
It would probably be recommended that you just get a bunch of parts from Newegg and assemble them yourself, but maybe buying the PC pre-built to your specs can't be all that bad.



Overall, it's great, except for one area-the sound card. Upgrade that to an X-Fi XtremeMusic at the least(the XtremeAudio is NOT a real X-Fi card, since it does all of its processing in software, making it no better than integrated audio).



If you need to shave costs to afford it, you could try dropping the E6600 to an E6420 and overclocking it to compensate for the clock speed loss.Buying a new PC online
You're looking for the PC Hardware board, amigo. ;)
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