I should mention that this build is dead silent and I have 3 hard drives stuck in there along with three built into the case, the GPU fan, and the regular CPU fan.
But as far as a build for YOU goes, the only thing I would really modify is the 16gb of RAM. Unless you do heavy music/video production, you'll neer need that much. Stick with an 8gb set.
I definitely want windows 7 for my OS and 500 gigs of memory should be more than enough. i also wanna go ahead and get the 16 gb of ram since it's possible i mite do something that requires that much ram in the future..
As for who is putting it together he fixes computer hardware and software for a living so i'm going to go ahead and asume he knows what he's doing.
Originally posted by troublexassassin Mk. worst posted links to parts earlier too so i mite use some of both.
Our builds aren't compatible in many ways. Each build uses a different motherboard and CPU which, because of their manufacturers, must always be paired together. The GPU, RAM, HDD, PSU, Case, and OS should otherwise by completely flexible.
Final build then which has the 500 GB Hard drive that you wanted. Likewise I upped the RAM to 16 GBs.
Some areas for price reduction are: Lower performance of the harddrive, ~15 dollars. Lower RAM count will decrease is by ~30 dollars per 4 GBs. Downgrade case to standard Antec 300 Black, ~20 dollars. Remove modular portion of PSU, ~20 dollars. Downgrading CPU will be ~15 per 0.2 GHz. Downgrading the GPU will change quite a bit of things.
Regardless of what you choose, be sure to run it by the guy you're going to have build it. I trust that he knows his stuff from what you've said, so he should know how to take advantage of the modular PSU. Likewise he may need to update the BIOS to 1.3+ in order to allow for
Ok thank you everyone for your input and advice. This should be a lot easier than trying to earn 2000+ Us dollars for that computer i was trying to get XD I like these parts a lot. Can't wait until i can buy the parts and put em all together.