Old Member, New name, Need a new system.

[Ualaa]

In the first post:

You have a powerful video card, probably overkill as far as wow goes. If you play other games as well, it might be more worthwhile. On a budget, I'd go with a much weaker card, since it will cost far less and still play wow smoothly. You don't need DX11 for wow.

An AMD processor will cost less then an equivalent Intel processor. If you live outside of the tropics, there probably isn't a huge difference between the two. AMD runs hotter and will overheat sooner, but that's not much of a concern for those of us in Canada/US/Europe or who have air conditioning.


In the second post:

The video card again is in the $550(CDN $) range.
An Nvidia GTX 275 will run for around $250 (CDN $) and play wow just as smoothly.
You could probably go with a video option far below the rest of your system and not have it as the "bottleneck" for your wow performance.

I prefer the Intel processor to the AMD processors. But that is a preference thing. Intel will cost more for the same performance. Or will be less powerful for the same price. At least that was true, the last two times I have bought systems.




I suppose you don't really need an 850 watt power supply for either system, a 650 watt power supply will work fine (especially if you're not planning on using SLI/Crossfire in the future); not sure on the price difference between the two.

6GB of ram is the minimum you'd want for 5-boxing, and as long as you don't have a lot of other applications open, it will run 5x wow just fine.

The 1TB hard drive is a decent choice. In Canada they run for $100-110; you could get a 500GB drive (half the size) for $60 or so. Not a lot of savings; I'd stick with the 1TB drive myself.

You could probably go with a cheap case, nothing fancy. As long as you have enough fans for cooling, a cheap and functional case is probably the way to go on a budget.

[Shodokan]

In the first post:

You have a powerful video card, probably overkill as far as wow goes. If you play other games as well, it might be more worthwhile. On a budget, I'd go with a much weaker card, since it will cost far less and still play wow smoothly. You don't need DX11 for wow.

An AMD processor will cost less then an equivalent Intel processor. If you live outside of the tropics, there probably isn't a huge difference between the two. AMD runs hotter and will overheat sooner, but that's not much of a concern for those of us in Canada/US/Europe or who have air conditioning.


In the second post:

The video card again is in the $550(CDN $) range.
An Nvidia GTX 275 will run for around $250 (CDN $) and play wow just as smoothly.
You could probably go with a video option far below the rest of your system and not have it as the "bottleneck" for your wow performance.

I prefer the Intel processor to the AMD processors. But that is a preference thing. Intel will cost more for the same performance. Or will be less powerful for the same price. At least that was true, the last two times I have bought systems.




I suppose you don't really need an 850 watt power supply for either system, a 650 watt power supply will work fine (especially if you're not planning on using SLI/Crossfire in the future); not sure on the price difference between the two.

6GB of ram is the minimum you'd want for 5-boxing, and as long as you don't have a lot of other applications open, it will run 5x wow just fine.

The 1TB hard drive is a decent choice. In Canada they run for $100-110; you could get a 500GB drive (half the size) for $60 or so. Not a lot of savings; I'd stick with the 1TB drive myself.

You could probably go with a cheap case, nothing fancy. As long as you have enough fans for cooling, a cheap and functional case is probably the way to go on a budget.

Thanks for the writeup.

Do you think that it would be "smarter" to go with a company to build it and such? Since i have little "hardware" experience. Plus the idea of warranties are nice.

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CURRENT CONFIGURATION
PARTS : CPU : Intel i5 / i7 CPU LGA 1156
Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz (Quad Core) 8000K
PARTS : Cooling Fans : Intel i5 / i7 CPU Fans
Coolermaster GeminII S, 5 Copper Heat Pipes, Extra Quiet CPU fan
PARTS : Motherboards : Intel i5 / i7 Motherboards
Intel DP55WB P55 DDR3, GB LAN, iEEE
PARTS : Memory : DDR3 Dual Channel memory
8GB (4x2GB) PC8500 DDR3 1066 Dual Channel
PARTS : Video & TV Cards : PCI-Express Video cards
GeForce GTX 275 896GB PCI EXpress 16X dual head, tv out
PARTS : Video & TV Cards : TV Tuner & Capture cards
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Hard Drives
500.0GB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA2, UDMA 300 8m cache
PARTS : Cooling Fans : Hard Drive Fans
Hard Drive Cooling Fan Aluminum Internal
PARTS : Hard Drives
160.0GB Hitachi 7200rpm SATA2 UDMA 300 8m Cahce
PARTS : Cooling Fans : Hard Drive Fans
Hard Drive Cooling Fan Aluminum Internal
PARTS : CD/DVD/R/RW Drives : DVD Recorders
Lite On 20x DVD Recorder Dual Layer +R/RW -R/RW
PARTS : CD/DVD/R/RW Drives : DVD Recorders
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Media Card Readers
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Sound Cards
AC 97 3D Full Duplex sound card (onboard)
PARTS : Modems
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Networking : Network Cards
Ethernet network adapter (onboard)
PARTS : Controller Cards
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Cases / Power Supplies : Cases
Apevia X-Dreamer 3 Black & Green front USB, eSATA, LCD temp. display
PARTS : Cooling Fans : Case Fans
Dual Case Fans 120 mm Extra Quiet DC fan (two fans)
PARTS : Cooling Fans : Power Supply
Okia 650W EXTRA QUIET ATX Power Supply
PARTS : Keyboards
Black Windows Keyboard, 104 key, PS/2
PARTS : Mice
2-Button Wheel Mouse, PS/2 Black
PARTS : Speakers
Black Multimedia amplified stereo speakers
SOFTWARE : Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit DVD
SOFTWARE : Office Software
NONE SELECTED
PARTS : Monitors
NONE SELECTED

Is what i'm looking at now. Should have NO problems with cooling. Upgraded the CPU fan, case has a fan built in, and 2 more would be added inside. Each HD would also have it's own fan.

Cost is 1420 shipped.


I built one similar that is 100$ cheaper and has pretty much same stats.