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i5 2500k Build - Best parts for it?
Lonewolf5460:
I consider a thousand dollar rig a middle range computer not high end at all. When I built my computer a year and a half ago I sunk about 1500 -1600 once all was said and done which is still mid range. I spent well over a 130 on a good mouse and keyboard. I know quality I will spend $ where it is justified that 20-30 us dollar difference could be used on a video card, more ram or a higher quality power supply. Spending the cash on a ssd 40- 64 gig ssd is good enough the price performance is not there on the 150 dollar plus ones meant fore real high end builds.
I just built a 3400 dollar rig for a client the budget for the SSDs and hard drives was 600-700 bucks alone, he got a 30 inch IPS monitor worth as much as that whole set up he is planning that is high end.
raandomer:
--- Quote from: Lonewolf5460 on May 12, 2011, 10:10:18 PM ---I consider a thousand dollar rig a middle range computer not high end at all. When I built my computer a year and a half ago I sunk about 1500 -1600 once all was said and done which is still mid range. I spent well over a 130 on a good mouse and keyboard. I know quality I will spend $ where it is justified that 20-30 us dollar difference could be used on a video card, more ram or a higher quality power supply. Spending the cash on a ssd 40- 64 gig ssd is good enough the price performance is not there on the 150 dollar plus ones meant fore real high end builds.
I just built a 3400 dollar rig for a client the budget for the SSDs and hard drives was 600-700 bucks alone, he got a 30 inch IPS monitor worth as much as that whole set up he is planning that is high end.
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ummmm nice to hear that, you spent 130 on io, congrats. i'm guessing its the u3011? unless he's doing some sort of professional photography work that 10bit panel is wasted.
and that post doesnt help op in the slightest, you do know there is a performance hit when you go from a 64gb to a 32gb, its not just space.
now back ontopic, doesnt matter which one you get really. If your paranoid might as well get the one on the vendor list, a personally never really look at the vendor list and have yet to run into any problems i couldnt resolve. Freedom Kira mentioned something about the sabertooth being slightly anal about ram so might as well go with the vengence. The only problem i can see is the higher heatspread limiting your hsf choice.
Lonewolf5460:
On the newer SSDs no there is not a performance hit the read and writes are the same on the newer ones check out the new corsair drives the read and writes are the same for the 40 gig and 120 gig models. They just use lower density chips now but all the channels are still populated so the read writes are the same IOPs may be different though.
I also agree looking back my statement did not help the OP that was a little argument that spilled over from another thread. Also he was doing photography work well he was starting and just wanted the best.
http://www.storagereview.com/corsair_force_f40_review_40gb
Here is relevant review on them
kitamesume:
water cooling, nuff said, compact and makes you OC like a madman on drugs.(ok i`m stretching it waaaay too far this time)
if you`d look at his option, that 1000$ fund was just for the core of the PC to begin with. and you`d call an i5 2500k + HD6970(later to be XCF) a mid-end gaming pc? i sure hope i misread that.
the i7 2600k + quad GTX580 is an Extreme-end gaming pc. while as i7 2600K + dual cards falls into high-end. what i consider mid-end is 600-900 with a cheap quad+dual GTX 560 Ti or HD6950(unlocked) and low-end at about 400-599 with a cheap quad+ single GTX 560 Ti or HD6950, budget end(which is my favorite) falls into 250-399 range consisting of a cheap dual+single GT240/GTS450 or HD6670/HD6790.
Lonewolf5460:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 12, 2011, 11:00:26 PM ---water cooling, nuff said, compact and makes you OC like a madman on drugs.(ok i`m stretching it waaaay too far this time)
if you`d look at his option, that 1000$ PC was just for the core of the PC to begin with. and you`d call an i5 2500k + HD6970(later to be XCF) a mid-end gaming pc? i sure hope i misread that.
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Well yah what you can get for a grand these days are amazing an i2500k and an Hd6970 will eat any game on the market at a reasonable resolution like 1680 x 1050, but still a thousand on the tower is still mid range to me. High end is needing enough graphics power to run beyond 1080p at 60 fps, that term is reserved for computers running 2560 x 1440 and 2560 x 1600 monitors. Now high end is starting to slide to multi-monitor and 3d gaming which seems like extreme overkill but that is high end.
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