I plan on building a computer ideally costing around $700-$900 excluding the price for the monitor, case, and input devices. I plan to have a small 15K RPM harddrive, 4GB or more ram, and a quad core processor. The components I'm consider are: Hard drive = Fujitsu MBA3073NC 73.5GB 15000 RPM 8MB Cache SCSI Ultra320 80pin Hard Drive Motherboard = ASRock P43Twins1600 LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100225L Radeon HD 3870 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Power Supply: OCZ StealthXStream OCZ500SXS 500W ATX12V / EPS12V Active PFC Power Supply Memory: OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Any comments especially about compatability and performance vs price would be appreciated.
Are you planning on playing new games as if you are the card could do with being a 4850and you could steal the cash from the processor get a 4850 and a slightly better mobo (p45 rather than p43) for the same price..ish if you go to a quad 6600. The card will struggle with the new games irrelivent of ram or processor, it would be the bottleneck. if not for games ignor everything I just said.
I agree with this guy because you seem to have a mid range budget so i recommend you go for the 4850 and p45 mobo, BUT please don't pair a Q9300 with that low budget Asrock mobo go for another better quality mobo with more features.
I see no reason not to go with that board, the only reason you need extreme heatpipes and stuff going everywhere is for overclocking or running three graphics cards. To me it seems like a very sensible build, good work. ---edit--- i overlooked the interface for your hard drive, but your going to need a SCSI card to connect to it.
GOOD CHOICE FOR GPU I recomend the SAPPHIRE 3870 because i have one and i get about 30 fps in Crysis HIGH 2xAA Its cheap and good. Make shure u download the new drivers cuz my 3870 runs cooler now and faster. GO ATI!
