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post #1 of 12
11/17/11 at 8:51am
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God it's been a long time since I came here!

The time has come to build another PC...after more than a year away I think and having found a new hobby in that time (collecting rare two stroke motorcycles) I have decided I want a gaming PC again.

I have no clue what is going on in the PC industry right now but I suppose my budget is around USD3500.

Can anybody suggest a build for that kind of money? No need for a monitor, need everything else but that.

Cheers all...

Hopefully see some familiar faces around here smile.gif
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11/17/11 at 8:56am
Will you be watercooling?
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post #3 of 12
11/17/11 at 8:58am
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No, was never a fan of watercooling (excuse the pun) biggrin.gif
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post #4 of 12
11/17/11 at 8:58am
Summary:

AMD may as well be dead, Bulldozer (their latest architecture) was a major flop.

Intel's i series is leading.

ATI no longer exists post 5XXX series, they're now AMD Radeon.

Since the 5XXX series AMD have pretty much lead the pack in terms of performance : watt ratio

Not much else to say really other than expect to pay a bomb for HDD's right now due to the Thailand floods severing 25% of the worlds supply.
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11/17/11 at 9:00am
What will you be doing with your rig?

Gaming?
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post #6 of 12
11/17/11 at 9:03am
Go with SB-E or if you want to wait for Ivy Bridge that comes out Q1 next year.

SandyBridge-E is basically the replacement for X58 so it's targeted towards enthusiasts.

You'll be able to build a fairly beastly rig with that kind of budget.

Just to get you started, maybe you can go take a look at some of these:

CPU: Intel Core i7 3960X ~ $1,100
GPUs: nVidia GTX 590 ~ $800 each

High-end stuff, not sure how you'll be gaming though. Multi-displays? 3d vision?
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post #7 of 12
11/17/11 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by IcedEarth View Post

Summary:
AMD may as well be dead, Bulldozer (their latest architecture) was a major flop.
Intel's i series is leading.
ATI no longer exists post 5XXX series, they're now AMD Radeon.
Since the 5XXX series AMD have pretty much lead the pack in terms of performance : watt ratio
Not much else to say really other than expect to pay a bomb for HDD's right now due to the Thailand floods severing 25% of the worlds supply.

Not too much change then.

Would like a nice SSD though if they aren't too stupidly priced.
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What will you be doing with your rig?
Gaming?

Gaming only.

Been playing the PS3 alot since BF3 came out and recently have been remembering the BF2 days...long for BF3 with 64 players and just can't get that on the PS3, a sorted PC is a must.

I'm in no rush but if I can get a general basic build idea I can work on it from there.

I guess a quad core CPU, unless they do more cores now? And a dual GPU setup, unless that is old now??

Basically just a PC that is going to play the latest games like BF3 & Skyrim at the highest graphic settings without any problems at all and future proof (as much as a PC can be).
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post #8 of 12
11/17/11 at 9:11am
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Originally Posted by brackberry View Post

Go with SB-E or if you want to wait for Ivy Bridge that comes out Q1 next year.
SandyBridge-E is basically the replacement for X58 so it's targeted towards enthusiasts.
You'll be able to build a fairly beastly rig with that kind of budget.
Just to get you started, maybe you can go take a look at some of these:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3960X ~ $1,100
GPUs: nVidia GTX 590 ~ $800 each
High-end stuff, not sure how you'll be gaming though. Multi-displays? 3d vision?

Thank you, will check them out.

Single display I reckon...3D vision?? lol
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post #9 of 12
11/17/11 at 9:20am
Intel's i7 and i2600k have 4 cores and hyper threading which is basically 4 virtual cores.

As far as I'm aware SB-E is meant to be 6 core.

Phenom II has 6 core processors and Bulldozer have 8 core processors.

3D vision is a new gimmick where you sit with some silly glasses on and your games are 3D, some games are poorly executed and support is limited as a whole. It's kind of like PhysX in my opinion, never really took off.
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post #10 of 12
11/17/11 at 9:21am
If this is for BF3 you'll need some quite heavy GPU power smile.gif

If I'd choose I'd go for:
i7 2600K
Asus maximus IV (or something similar)
8-16GB DDR3 (it's cheap, choose just about any 1.5v 1600mhz+ kit with decent timings)
GTX 580 SLI / HD 6970 trifire
Vertex 3 SSD (120GB would probably be nice)
etc.
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