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Originally Posted by kutulu
I don't think he'll be close to $3k. He said he's going with the recommendations in the thread so they would be something like this:
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Processor i7 920 $280
Heat Sink $70
Mobo $250
Case Antec 900 $100
RAM 6GB DDR3 $120
PSU 750W $120
SSD 80GB X-25 M $230
HDD 1TB $100
Total $1,270
I'm not sure what GPU he's getting but I doubt it will be more than $500. Therefore the cost is about $1,800 before software and whatever the guy is charging for assembly. If his guy ends up charging that much he's screwing him on the assembly fee. |
Why buy a heatsink? The retail box comes with a stock heatsink that works quite well unless you plan to overclock. With that said I will add that you really should clean the included TIM off and use a quality paste like arctic silver 5 or and equivalent one. The stock TIM does work but not good enough, I shaved about 3 Degrees C at idle when I changed from stock to Arctic Silver 3 with my Q6600.
Another tip I'd like to add is, buy all your parts at the same place at the same time. Personal experience tells me you could get a deal by buying this way, I saved about $180 on my last build this way
, mind you I do tend to buy from this dealer a fair bit as I do custom builds for friends and family as a hobby.
Another tip, see the system in operation BEFORE you pack it up to go home. Both idle and running full bore for at least 15 minutes. That way if something "works loose" in transit you know your system worked before it left the builder. I always do at least a 12 hour burn in before I let a system leave.
To be honest I get a kick of showing off the new system to it's owner and putting it through it's paces.
Now for a threadjack, does anyone here have a SSD in their personal computer? I'm curious as to it's actual performance in normal non raided use. Boot time, in game (say a map change in TF2 or another game) etc. Lets hear some real user opinions, is it worth $416 (where I live) for a 80gig HD?