I am currently about to purchase and build a new computer and am trying to make sure everything will work together.
I will mainly be using the computer for programming web/opengl/C++/networking applications, gaming and will probably set up dual booting between ubuntu/windows.
Power Supply - Ultra X3 ULT40064 1000-Watt Power Supply
ATX, SATA-Ready, PCI-E Ready, Energy Efficient, Modular
i still dont have a case in mind, because i understand some of this hardware will be quite large and want to make sure I get one with the right dimensions. if anyone has any estimations on the size i should be looking for i would really appreciate it.
I’m also concerned about the motherboard and cpu because from what i understand the core i7 has a new pin scheme, will the rampage II support it?
wow thanks for pointing that out, I actually wasn’t aware of this but now that i google it im finding all sorts of problems that i dont think i would like to deal with.
so would you recommend anything nVidia? Or do you maybe even know of a specific video card with similar (or better;)) performance and price(up to about $500?) you can recommend?
I use NVidia myself, there are some pretty amazing cards out there today. It really depends on what you want to spend, but for about $500 you could get a GTX 295, which has two cores, a gig of DDR3, and 480 stream processors. For a lot less you could add one or two of the slightly lower-end 2xx GTX cards, which might be the better option.
I’m still looking around so i dont think this is where i will buy everything from but its gonna be about a $2000 dollar computer which im happy with, especially when i see the junk major brands can sell for the same.
hopefully i should be able to get everything but the monitor next monday, then after that on my next paycheck i’m gonna pick up two of those monitors and then just some little accessories