Building a PC

Here is what I am going for

Fast, able to play fairly demanding games on pretty high settings, and under $1000.

I used only Tiger Direct but, prices shouldn't differ too much and there is no S&H till Sunday night so that saves like $20-50.

Processor: AMD FX-6100 3.30GHz Six Core http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1577715&sku=A79-0005
Motherboard:BIOSTAR AMD 9-Series AM3+ (4 ram slots. max 16gb and 2 PCI and 2 PCIe) (link is the same as processor)
RAM: 2x 4gb Corsair (8gb) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=40739&sku=C13-5720
Video Card:Radeon HD 6870 PCIe http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1076246&sku=P450-6879
HDD: 1 TB 7200 RPM Seagate (pretty much like a black WD) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=61389&sku=TSD-1000AS5
Case:Mid Tower Coolmaster case. 120mm Blue LED fan
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6430030&sku=C283-3122
PSU:Some cheap 800W one
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=606575&sku=V261-0800

Price comes to $854.94 but, with $40 of mail in rebate not added in so it is $814.94. Shipping and handling, like I said before, is free so this is the final price (might flux some. Idk about tax.)

Not a bad deal. So post you opinion of my soon to be build, your own build, building experiences (do's and don'ts) or your dream build.

Do you have to pay someone to assemble it, or do you know how to do that yourself?

I can do it myself no problem. It is not that difficult, actually, it is a lot easier than you think. You just need to make sure you get a "static strap" when putting in the mother board. In other words, you just need to be grounded.

ABigSoggy Wafle wrote:I can do it myself no problem. It is not that difficult, actually, it is a lot easier than you think. You just need to make sure you get a "static strap" when putting in the mother board. In other words, you just need to be grounded.

Your third and fourth sentences might as well be in Esperanto, as I have no idea what any of that means. I wouldn't risk building one myself, as I'm that bad with computer technology (Don't even know what grounded means). I can't afford to screw things up when I'm dealing with nearly 1000 dollars of parts. That's one of the reasons I just bought a pre-assembled computer. I guess not so much pre-assembled as assembled by them based on what I send them. Either way, It arrived at my house fully built.

I can't remember the specifics exactly, but I think it's something like:
6 Core thing
8 GB of RAM
1 TB Hard-drive
AMD Radeon Graphics card (there was some list of the best ones, and I just picked the highest Radeon one, as it was much cheaper than the other type ones. I think it was 9850 or 9870 or 8950 or some number something like that)
Some normal case thing
800 Watt power thing
Blu-Ray Reader/Writer thing
Windows 7

Can't remember anything else. In case my putting "Thing" on the end of everything doesn't give it away, I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to computers. All I know is that I wanted to get something that would have a pretty good life-span before becoming obsolete, and that I wanted to run Skyrim on it's highest settings with no lag.

I was satisfied with my purchase as soon as Skyrim's auto-detection software stuff set my graphics quality to Ultra-High on everything by default.

Asus laptop with integrated graphics card (Fuck you Asus)



Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53 GHz 2.53

Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (3.79 usable)

System type: 64-bit Operating System




Basically, i can run anything with a Source engine and that's about it.

Needs mawr RAM.


Good deal though Waffle.

eaustinn36 wrote:Needs mawr RAM.

Yeah... no...

Also Wafle, I'm guilty of never using a static strap or anything ever, but feel free to use one if you really want to.

eaustinn36 wrote:Needs mawr RAM.

Not really.


AMD Phenom TM II X6 1090T Processor @ 3.2 Ghz
8GB RAM
NVIDIA 560 GTX

Water Cooling, Two hard drives totaling 1 TB.

Needs more Cowbell

Jagdgeschwader wrote:
NVIDIA 560 GTX

My personal and favorite card.

Jagdgeschwader wrote:

eaustinn36 wrote:Needs mawr RAM.

Not really.


AMD Phenom TM II X6 1090T Processor @ 3.2 Ghz
8GB RAM
NVIDIA 560 GTX

Water Cooling, Two hard drives totaling 1 TB.

PSU? And any SSDs?

eaustinn36 wrote:Needs mawr RAM.


Good deal though Waffle.

lol wut?
8gb is more than enough. I can buy more for dirt cheap. But thank you.

Don't remember the PSU, or SSDs, but I can imagine it's pretty top notch from what I can ascertain.

You got noting on my 12GB RAM brah.

Namorg wrote:You got noting on my 12GB RAM brah.

And u got nutin on my 32GB RAM brah

eaustinn36 wrote:

Namorg wrote:You got noting on my 12GB RAM brah.

And u got nutin on my 32GB RAM brah

What do you have a server?! Why do you need 32GB of RAM? 12 is excessive.

I run many engineering simulator programs that can usually only run at office computers. They eat ur RAM for breakfast. Nuff said (although I probably coulda gotten away with 16, but it would be close).

eaustinn36 wrote:I run many engineering simulator programs that can usually only run at office computers. They eat ur RAM for breakfast. Nuff said (although I probably coulda gotten away with 16, but it would be close).

Autocad? Also there are plenty of measures you can take to reduce RAM. Even still, RAM is cheap and a mother board with 32GB capability isn't too expensive so I can't really criticize you on that. If you said you had 3 HDD and they were each SSDs...

ABigSoggy Wafle wrote:Autocad?

lol.... you sir, just made my day.

My specs.

eaustinn36 wrote:

ABigSoggy Wafle wrote:Autocad?

lol.... you sir, just made my day.

Is autocad ass? That is the only engineering program I know of that would need a server just to run.

eaustinn36 wrote:

ABigSoggy Wafle wrote:Autocad?

lol.... you sir, just made my day.

Well Mr. 32GB of RAM how about YOU enlighten us on what programs you're running on your laptop that your company probably bought for you, if you even have one, and stop acting like such a pompous headed jackass?

Fucking Christ.

It's tough to say, you cant get the program anywhere, it requires a license to operate that (as far as I know) costs thousands. I think it is probably most similar to ANSYS11, but more complex. It's something that you need to just see rather than explain (although I can't do that).

@Slacker - Nice.


EDIT: @Jag - Wth is your problem?

eaustinn36 wrote:It's tough to say, you cant get the program anywhere, it requires a license to operate that (as far as I know) costs thousands. I think it is probably most similar to ANSYS11, but more complex. It's something that you need to just see rather than explain (although I can't do that).

@Slacker - Nice.


EDIT: @Jag - Wth is your problem?

I have a licensing key for some really expensive 3d modeling program and well as CS5 professional. I didn't pay anything for it. The internet and keygen did. Regardless, what are you constructing that requires such a program?

Well it isn't just modelling, it is simulated scenarios also. And it is used for (me at least) designing / analyzing components of structures to determine critical failure points under given and unknown loading conditions; mainly for bridges and buildings, among other things. Sorry if it is still unclear, but i can't go any further.

I would be willing to bet money that you do not need 32GBs of RAM. Nice to have I'm sure though.