Looking for advice for a custom built computer.

If you want an i7, you may need to raise your price. What do you want to do with this PC?
 
Surtur said:
If you want an i7, you may need to raise your price. What do you want to do with this PC?
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homerbeoulve said he wanted to make a custom pc for gaming and other knick knacks such as programming his own RPG.
 
Surtur said:
If you want an i7, you may need to raise your price. What do you want to do with this PC?
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Gaming, video editing/rendering and programming. I decided to actually raise my cap to $1000.
 
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2aNTl

Okies, so I managed to put this together this rig for 1005 bucks, this does not include shipping but if you tak the time you can get about 70 bucks back in rebates. This price includes Windows 7 Home Premium but not any accesories, such as a mouse, speakers, keyboard or monitor but you probably already have those.

Now, it includes a couple thigs. I put in an i7-4770k, whitch is a great CPU for video editing, it has for real cores and four virtual cores, so for nicley threaded programs it has 8 effective cores. However, if you plan to do more gaming than anything else, drop to an i5-4670k. It is not hyperthreaded, but it will perform just as well as the i7 in gaming and is 60 bucks less. I also added 16 gigs of ram, again if you are doing heavy video editing however if you want to do more gaming, yu can drop to 8 gigs and save 50 bucks and then buy another kit further down the road when games need more RAM. I also included unlocked processors, but not an after market CPU cooler. If you plan to overclock, you need to add a good cooler. I use a Cooler Master EVO air cooler. Its massive but its only 40 bucks and works about as well as some low end liquid options and it will fit in the case I included. The Case is a Mid Tower NXT Phantom 410 and its the case I have. It is a spacious and stylish case that seems to take design hints from Alienware, so if you like the Alienware look it is a nice option. It also has built USB 3.0 ports, several fans with room for more, swapable HDD bays and built in blue LED lights. They have other colors, but the black one is the cheapest and at 79.99 you get a lot of case for your buck. Now, I also included a 128 GB SSD as a boot drive. I recomend this, as booting from an SSD allows you to boot Windows in seconds. That being said you can save money by dropping to a lower capacity drive or if you don;t care about boot time, you can drop it all together and save 70 bucks.

Anyways, if you have anymore more questions let me know.

EDIT: Oops I told a lie, the 1005 price tag does include shipping, its 994 USD plus 11.55 shipping.
 
Shipping? Not a problme. I just have to know what parts are needed so I can look for it here in our country. Thank you, oh mighty Lord Surtur.
 
Not a problem. Does the list come up fine for you?
 
Surtur said:
Not a problem. Does the list come up fone for you?
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Oh boy, I'm going to be honest. The hardware for the PC you shared was off the charts! I love it! All I need now is to look for the parts that you've shared and see if there are stores in malls that sold them for a decent price. The price is also great and it left me some room for cooler fans and other things(brand new Logitech headset, mouse/keyboard combo, webcam, an AVR, a 18" stand fan and maybe a Samsung/Acer 23" LED monitor).

So thanks a bunch, Lord Surtur.

PS: Is the custom built PC suggestion you shared to me is internet ready?
 
The motherboard has built in gigabit ethernet, but if you want wirless you will have to pick up a card. Those are cheap though.
 
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The motherboard has built in gigabit ethernet, but if you want wirless you will have to pick up a card. Those are cheap though.
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Totally awesome. I'm looking for the components now if they are available within the vicinity of my reach. I hope they do.
 
If there are any parts that was on that suggestion that was not available, I hope there are alternatives.
 
Just run it by me or one of the other PC guys here, we can help.
 
I dug around a bit on newegg earlier, and there is some Stuff there you might want to look at. This is intended to be a cursory glance at what you can expect to pay for gear of this class when you decide to Do It, instead of any serious recommendation to BUY THIS THING AND BUY IT NOW, but I gotta say I wish prices had been this good when I put together this rig last February / March.

One of their few-hours-only "shell shocker" sales, which is unfortunately going on right no so it'll probably be over before you see this, is a SATA 3 750 GB Samsung HD for $50.

Asrock has a new motherboard out that looks sweet as can be if you can swallow the boy-racer name; it's socketed for the LGA 1150 Intel CPUs, uses the Z87 chipset, and the specs are mind-boggling. Best part: around $120. It's got decent sound and networking onboard, wall-to-wall USB3 ports, and some other stuff that you might otherwise have to buy seperately.

16 GB of suitable DDR3 dual-channel RAM with a CAS latency of 9 (faster than anything else on the page) could be had for $110. (CAS = "column address strobe," which I won't even try to explain except to say you want it as low as possible. That Asrock mobo can detect the difference and adjust its clocks up to match.)

A compatible i7 CPU (Haskell series with the LGA 1150 form factor) is around $310.

EVGA video cards based on the nVidia 760 (not the top of the line, but way above average) start around $250.

So far, that tallies out to $840, and you'd still need to come up with an optical drive, monitor(s?), possibly speakers, case, mouse, keyboard, power supply, and whatever ancillary gear you want to throw in there, but that could probably be done nicely for less than the $360 remaining in the $1100 ballpark budget.

Deviating from the main storyline for a moment, I'm going to mention some of my miscellaneous gear that I really like would unfortunately blow your budget to tiny bits -- but you'd realize after a little time had passed that your life was happy, though you were poor. This stuff kind of crept up on me after I'd been using it for a while, and now I can't live without it. Acquiring it may be worth temporarily working an extra job or taking up crime.

Item 1: The best mouse pad in the world is a glass tabletop, and Logitech makes two wireless mice that can track on zany surfaces like that, and use Logi's "unifying" receiver that can handle multiple peripherals at once. That turned out to be a huge convenience several times. My favorite is the 8-button Performance Mouse MX (can be had for about $90), and I got its little brother Anywhere MX for my laptop.

Item 2: A couple months ago I bought a Logitech G930 wireless surround-sound headset and it's really, really, good.

Item 3: I hate crappy keyboards, so I took a chance and bought a nice Das Keyboard. Since the early '80s I've used a metric buttload of different keyboards, and it's tied with two others for the Best Keyboard Evar. It's also the only possible B.K.E. candidate that was manufactured after 1989. I got the kind that's all-black with nothing on the keytops becaause I don't look at my hands anyway, and discouraging tourists from using my rig has been a source of much amusement. But seriously, it's really, well-built and solid.

Good Luck, & I really will dig out my receipts for this machine after I finish some ratkilling this afternoon. --s
 
Smokedaddy said:
Item 3: I hate crappy keyboards, so I took a chance and bought a nice Das Keyboard. Since the early '80s I've used a metric buttload of different keyboards, and it's tied with two others for the Best Keyboard Evar. It's also the only possible B.K.E. candidate that was manufactured after 1989. I got the kind that's all-black with nothing on the keytops becaause I don't look at my MANOS anyway, and discouraging tourists from using my rig has been a source of much amusement. But seriously, it's really, well-built and solid.
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Oh this, definitely. I am so with you on this. Awhile back, I bought a model M keyboard, and it's fucking amazing. I've had it for years and it's fantastic. For anyone who does a lot of typing, I'd definitely recommend a model M. Or anything that has mechanical switches, but I'll definitely say that I really enjoy my model M keyboard.
 
Smokedaddy said:
Item 3: I hate crappy keyboards, so I took a chance and bought a nice Das Keyboard. Since the early '80s I've used a metric buttload of different keyboards, and it's tied with two others for the Best Keyboard Evar. It's also the only possible B.K.E. candidate that was manufactured after 1989. I got the kind that's all-black with nothing on the keytops becaause I don't look at my MANOS anyway, and discouraging tourists from using my rig has been a source of much amusement. But seriously, it's really, well-built and solid.
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I'm actually one of those few PC gamers that doesn't mind keyboards all that much. The keyboard I'm using right now is a logitech one that came with my PC. Rather what I commonly drop bank on is mice.

I had to go through a lot of expensive mice until I found one that suited me. Which was the Razer Naga.
 
Well I just went to research for the said parts and these are missing on the malls I went to:

ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard


Also, I saw a very discounted i7-4770 but I hope to find a 4770k within the price range that can make it to my budget. Also, I saw on the internet just today that a shop is selling Radeon video card and by golly it's almost 50% more in its original price on pcpicker.com. That really skyrocketed the price up, so as the Sandisk 128 SSD.
 
Damn it! The parts here are so overpriced ranged from+50% to +200%! It's irritating.
 
Just an update: I found the video card that Lord Surtur suggested to me. And it's like equivalent to $700 here. Gosh, I'm really going to need some help on this one. T_T
 
Since there doesn't seem to be a general computer advice thread this seems as good a place as any to try:
So I have a hard drive. It's not doing well anymore. I want to clone it using Windows 7.

I tried Window's built-in thing and Bad Hard Drive is too slow for it to work. At the moment I'm trying to just copy all the files over to a bigger drive, then copy them to New Hard Drive, but I want to start pursuing other solutions in case this doesn't pan out.

Is there something free or easily stolen online y'all can recommend that would be good for making a disc image from a molasses-slow bad old hard drive?
 
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