Help with a new rig.

[Sherlock]

Yeah, that list is definitely beyond my budget. ^^ I tried hitachi, but not a single online retailer seems to have it over here, atleast internal. The closest I found was this and this. Amazon, India seems to have a 4TB external[former link], so that's scuppered. WD is expensive though, which is what is giving me second thoughts..

Also, Tatsujin, I'm thinking you've to make the wishlist as public on Newegg for others to view it.

[Tatsujin]

I guess the Newegg wishlist is just a private wishlist. Unlike Amazon's ListManias. Here's my current rig if anyone's interested. http://www.amazon.co.uk/lm/R28SI8B4FX92VN/

On harddrives, I stopped trusting Seagate a long time ago. I used to get Samsung drives when I could, but Samsung's hard drive line was sold to Seagate, and now I have no idea if I get good ones or bad ones from Seagate. WD is more trustworthy than Seagate in my experience anyway. I haven't had a single WD drive die on me. But WD Blacks are pricey. Recently, I've been leaning to Hitachi for my drives. Got a 2TB Hitachi DeskStar drive for my desktop and it's going great so far.

Houkouonchi uses Hitachis all the time and not a single failure apparently.

Hitachi is also a good HDD along with WD.

I like your choice of motherboard and PSU. Thou the motherboard is much cheaper on newegg on my end.

As for the newegg wishlist, can you view this? Who was the person that was able to view their list on here? It was like two days ago and I was surprised.

[Southrop]

I like your choice of motherboard and PSU. Thou the motherboard is much cheaper on newegg on my end.

As for the newegg wishlist, can you view this? Who was the person that was able to view their list on here? It was like two days ago and I was surprised.

Well, pricing, that's just Amazon and their constantly changing prices. I didnt buy mine on Amazon. Bought it for less at a UK retailer. Though remember UK has 20% VAT on all purchases.

And yes, I can view the newegg link. gives me 3 results, all of which i can view.

Yeah, that list is definitely beyond my budget. ^^

Haha yeah I worked my ass off for a whole summer to afford my desktop. Figured if I was going to get one, might as well get a powerful one. Worked lots of over time but well worth it though in my opinion

I tried hitachi, but not a single online retailer seems to have it over here, atleast internal. The closest I found was this and this. Amazon, India seems to have a 4TB external[former link], so that's scuppered. WD is expensive though, which is what is giving me second thoughts..

yeah no.. that's not what you want lol.

which country are you from? theres also newegg.CA
amazon is a good choice after newegg.

UK primarily now. And like I said, North America. Canada is part of North America

[kitamesume]

Last time I checked, Newegg doesn't ship outside of NA, so those promo codes aren't much help

And dunno if its just me, it seems a newegg account is needed to see that wishlist

which country are you from? theres also newegg.CA
amazon is a good choice after newegg.

[Tatsujin]

Click on the second link which is 600 USD. That's the current set up I built for Sherlock (and myself).

[Southrop]

Click on the second link which is 600 USD. That's the current set up I built for Sherlock (and myself).

Couldn't you have just linked that? Like this? http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18613231 That link should work for everyone.

[Sherlock]

Inclusive of twin fans and the cooler, along with the power supply, My cousin has an estimate of around 42000INR [converted~765$]. That seems still overkill to me, though I haven't yet checked the make of the fan/power-supply and the GPU in his build. Need to check that motherboard and cooler too. Only things that I could gather before he went off were core i5 3570K, G.Skill 8GB, and WD 1TB Internal and an external inverter with a battery backup of around 15 minutes[needed since power outages seems to be the norm here].

I'm just thankful I don't have to factor monitor and other peripherals' cost here. That would have shot up the budget.

Edit: Again, it's the graphics card that shooting it up in your list, Tatsujin. I'll go tomorrow to check if I can get any cheaper deals from local traders.

Yeah, that list is definitely beyond my budget. ^^

Haha yeah I worked my ass off for a whole summer to afford my desktop. Figured if I was going to get one, might as well get a powerful one. Worked lots of over time but well worth it though in my opinion

I've to begin my articleship anyhow in at the max 6 months after the institute determines the results. A year into that, with overtime maybe, and I should be able to afford a decent graphics card, at the very least.

[Tatsujin]

Click on the second link which is 600 USD. That's the current set up I built for Sherlock (and myself).

Couldn't you have just linked that? Like this? http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18613231 That link should work for everyone.

Ah, I see the problem. The link for wishlist was this -- https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=18613231 and the link for public use was - http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18613231

Inclusive of twin fans and the cooler, along with the power supply, My cousin has an estimate of around 42000INR [converted~765$]. That seems still overkill to me, though I haven't yet checked the make of the fan/power-supply and the GPU in his build. Need to check that motherboard and cooler too. Only things that I could gather before he went off were core i5 3570K, G.Skill 8GB, and WD 1TB Internal and an external inverter with a battery backup of around 15 minutes[needed since power outages seems to be the norm here].

I'm just thankful I don't have to factor monitor and other peripherals' cost here. That would have shot up the budget.

The backup battery is an awesome safety measure. I have one from 2008 and I can't express how many times this thing saved my computers. Only hook up the the computer and monitor to the back up plugs, let everything else be plugged in one of the surge protectors.

I need to get a second backup battery for my externals.

[Southrop]

Inclusive of twin fans and the cooler, along with the power supply, My cousin has an estimate of around 42000INR [converted~765$]. That seems still overkill to me, though I haven't yet checked the make of the fan/power-supply and the GPU in his build. Need to check that motherboard and cooler too. Only things that I could gather before he went off were core i5 3570K, G.Skill 8GB, and WD 1TB Internal and an external inverter with a battery backup of around 15 minutes[needed since power outages seems to be the norm here].

I'm just thankful I don't have to factor monitor and other peripherals' cost here. That would have shot up the budget.

The backup battery is an awesome safety measure. I have one from 2008 and I can't express how many times this thing saved my computers. Only hook up the the computer and monitor to the back up plugs, let everything else be plugged in one of the surge protectors.

I need to get a second backup battery for my externals.

Speaking of backup batteries, the latest Ars God Box has a fucking UPS... mfw when I saw that...

[Sherlock]

UPS are so necessary over here;; Frequent unscheduled power outages, and infrequent voltage fluctuations :\ I'm getting one for around 55$ - should give around 15-20 minutes of backup, more than enough to close anything running, save and shut-down. If I was still using Windows back when my old UPS crashed, I would have been a goner, completely.

Although, I may have to work overtime here for the next month to afford the extra ~6000INR overall increase though.

[Freedom Kira]

Houkouonchi uses Hitachis all the time and not a single failure apparently.

Hitachi used to have a bad reputation that earned them the nickname "DeathStars."

I got six 3TB Hitachis back before the big Thailand flood (so they are pretty much the first generation 3TB DeskStars) and have been running them nearly 24/7 for close to a year and a half now; SMART still shows all six disks as healthy as of a couple days ago.