Please help me with my computer buildPost Date: 2012-08-05 |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
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Topic: Please help me with my computer build Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 7:19pm |
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1,500 - 2000(MAX) Expectations: I expect this computer to be fast, non-laggy, have about 8 gigs of ram and to be well fit for my budget! Usage: I will be using this computer to play a lot of video games such as minecraft, Magicka, L4D, Tf2 and all sorts whilst also recording them such as gameplays. I will also use it for editing my videos and uploading, of course also you'r casual stroll down the facebook and such. Special Needs: I would like the computer to be quiet, yet fast, big or small don't really care but I want it to work really well! Extra: Please edit around with my saved order to remove unecessary components that won't improve the performance (The monitor, keyboard, and mouse is something I need for the pc so please don't remove that) And please help me with the PC because I don't know much about pc's :C Thanks :D Saved Ticket #: 715558 Specifications: [Please Type Here] |
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xii
Senior Member Joined: 25 Feb 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 975 |
Quote Reply Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 7:45pm |
Hello,
Welcome to the Forums! What do you think about the ODE2? $1699 Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Pre-built Digital Storm ODE V2 - Level 2 Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50 GHz (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core) (Requires Z77 Motherboard) Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX (Intel Z77 Chipset) System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance Series (High-Performance) Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Expansion Bay: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (1TB Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x) Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card: 1x AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB Add-on Card: - No Thanks Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Digital Storm Vortex 120mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler (High-Performance Edition) H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red) Enhancements: - No Thanks Chassis Mods: - No Thanks Noise Reduction: - No Thanks LaserMark: - No Thanks Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s) Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD) Virus Protection: - No Thanks Office: - No Thanks Game: - No Thanks Display: - No Thanks Surge Shield: - No Thanks Speakers: - No Thanks Keyboard: - No Thanks Mouse: - No Thanks External Storage: - No Thanks Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 10-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty Edited by xii - 05 Aug 2012 at 7:46pm |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 10:59pm |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 11:11pm |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 05 Aug 2012 at 11:55pm |
Here I edited it a bit and got quite a good price!
Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Pre-built Digital Storm ODE V2 - Level 2 Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50 GHz (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core) (Requires Z77 Motherboard) Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX (Intel Z77 Chipset) System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance Series (High-Performance) Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Expansion Bay: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (1TB Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x) Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card: 1x AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB Add-on Card: - No Thanks Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Digital Storm Vortex 120mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler (High-Performance Edition) H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red) Enhancements: - No Thanks Chassis Mods: - No Thanks Noise Reduction: - No Thanks LaserMark: - No Thanks Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s) Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD) Virus Protection: - No Thanks Office: - No Thanks Game: - No Thanks Display: - No Thanks Surge Shield: - No Thanks Speakers: - No Thanks Keyboard: Logitech Media Combo MK200 Keyboard and Mouse Mouse: - No Thanks External Storage: - No Thanks Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Extra Large) Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 10-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty I guess it's a good build! Will it be able to play games and record them with video-recording software smoothly? If so thankyou so much! if not is there a tweak I can make to help it do so? Oh and for the monitor I'm thinking on getting this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2382643&SRCCODE=WEBGOO0163C&cm_mmc_o=mH4CjC7BBTkwCjCECjCE&gclid=CJSAs8uz0rECFQHDtgodzTUAQg I need one with 2 HDMI's so I can plug in my consoles to it too! I guess that's the cheapest price I found but it relatively fits my budget well! So yeah I thankyou for the help but please reply for the other questions! |
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LaneHayes
Newbie Joined: 17 Oct 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 90 |
Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 12:14pm |
Any changes to the prebuilt's hardware is going to cost an extra $50, + the cost of the new part. It's usually just best to take them as is (they're hard to beat for single card solutions anyway). So if you're going the ODE route, I'd leave it as is. Also, the games you list arent especially taxing, so you should be able to play + FRAPS no problem No piece of hardware is going to improve a crappy internet connection, i found this week. Just moved into a new apartment with global wifi and the 'recommended' hardware gets worse internet service than my kindle fire and the $20 usb wifi adapter on amazon. They gave me my $100 back.
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xii
Senior Member Joined: 25 Feb 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 975 |
Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 12:31pm |
Don't forget you can always call DS and they will help you with the process - they'll help you get what you need - they do not care about just "getting another PC out the door."
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 12:40pm |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 12:44pm |
Yes thank's for the suggestion, do you reccomend a monitor? or know of one with HDMI, and the video source the PC has? I have been looking for one like that for a while now |
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UKCoopeR
Newbie Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 49 |
Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2012 at 1:07pm |
My budget was similar to yours (~1.7k), also I was also considering the ODE.
Lots of folks recommended the Dell U2312HM. I got it and love it! I ended up not getting the ODE but mainly due to case style and random personal preferences nothing that was a real con. The monitor looks and works great. Only suggestion I would make is not to bother installing the extra power saver program on the cd dell included as it doesn't help (monitor has pretty good power saving settings normally) and sometimes hurts. It was on sale for 230 with free shipping online when I bought it a few weeks ago, which based on my research was a good deal! I use the DVI connection for the monitor but the gtx 670 (in the standard ODE lvl 1 and what i got in mine) has also got a display port and hdmi output too. Edited by UKCoopeR - 06 Aug 2012 at 1:09pm |
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FrankW
DS Veteran Joined: 22 Feb 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2254 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 2012 at 7:35am |
Hi 911soljaboy,
Sorry for being late with my comments. I looked at your original build and it was right at $2600. For $2499 you can get the ODE-4 and have way more computer with dual GPUs and stage two OC. A much better system than what you built. What is the configuration number for your last build? Frank Here is what the ODE-4 looks like. Configuration: 715970 Cost: $2499 Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Pre-built Digital Storm ODE V2 - Level 4 Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50 GHz (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core) (Requires Z77 Motherboard) Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 (Intel Z77 Chipset) (Features Thermal Armor and Thermal Radar) System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Expansion Bay: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (120GB Solid State (By: Corsair) (Model: Force GT Series CSSD-F120GBGT-BK) (SATA 6Gbps) Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (1TB Western Digital/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung (7200 RPM) (32MB Cache) Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks Optical Drive 1: Blu-Ray Player/DVD Writer (Play Blu-Ray and Burn DVDs) Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card: 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB (Includes PhysX) Add-on Card: - No Thanks Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio Extreme Cooling: H20: Stage 2: Digital Storm Vortex 240mm Radiator Liquid CPU Cooler (Extreme-Performance Edition) H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (Red) Enhancements: - No Thanks Chassis Mods: - No Thanks Noise Reduction: - No Thanks LaserMark: - No Thanks Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s) Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows 7 CD) Virus Protection: - No Thanks Office: - No Thanks Game: - No Thanks Display: - No Thanks Surge Shield: - No Thanks Speakers: - No Thanks Keyboard: - No Thanks Mouse: - No Thanks External Storage: - No Thanks Exclusive T-Shirt: - No Thanks Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 10-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty Edited by FrankW - 07 Aug 2012 at 7:36am |
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xii
Senior Member Joined: 25 Feb 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 975 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 2012 at 8:25am |
OMG Frank... you forgot the Tshirt!
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FrankW
DS Veteran Joined: 22 Feb 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2254 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 2012 at 8:35am |
Well dang, the old guy fails again
They should send those free T-Shirts to us Frank |
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bprat22
DS ELITE DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 2012 at 8:37am |
Must be the summer heat.
I could use a few t's..
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 3:24pm |
Yeah frank that looks like a really good build but the pricing is my problem... I have been told by my father that I may only be able to spend 1500-1800 I have been saving up for a PC for quite a while now, such as not recieving gifts or birthday presents and I doubt I'll get anything for christmas as well, but I guess it'll all be worth it in the end! |
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911soljaboy
Newbie Joined: 05 Aug 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 3:27pm |
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Jared
Newbie Joined: 25 May 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 30 |
Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 3:40pm |
As for the comp specs, I am not the person to talk to. But I have been doing research for myself about the accessories, being the monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers. First off, the monitor. I have looked around everywhere and it all came back to the Dell Ultrasharp. You can get it from a 21.5" to a 30" and it seems to be a very popular one on the forums and an overall great monitor. As for the mouse, I have done a lot of research on this too, and the mouse I plan to get is the Razer Deathadder. It is a great overall mouse for FPS games, but if you wanted a mouse for MMO/RPG gaming purposes, the Roccat Kone+ or the Razer Naga seem to be a good choice. They have many configurable options for macros that the DA does not. The keyboard I am planning on getting is the Steel Series 6gv2. I have heard great things about it and it's simple design and mechanical keys were appealing to me. If you decide not to go with this, the Razer Blackwidow keyboards are the next best bet. I'm sure that many arguments can be made about which one rules over the other, but after looking over some reviews, I preferred the 6gv2 more. And lastly, the speakers. I found probably the cheapest set of speakers you can get that have an ok quality. They won't be full surround sound maxed out super quality speakers. But they only cost $25 for a 2.1 setup. So that'ts two front speakers and a sub woofer underneath. Hope I helped and make sure to look on sites like amazon and newegg for these (cheaper than DS).
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UKCoopeR
Newbie Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 49 |
Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 3:57pm |
I bought it from battery juice via ebay (looks like the price went up a bit but shipping is still free):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-DELL-U2312HM-WS-LED-LCD-FP-Monitor-3-Year-Warranty-U2312M-U2311H-/150788390836?pt=Computer_Monitors&hash=item231bb03fb4#ht_3493wt_904 Here are the specs: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=soho&cs=ussoho1&sku=320-2807&ST=Monitor&dgc=ST&cid=248711&lid=4318531&acd=s_pla_SO:10,,901q5c14135 It doesn't have HDMI, I could be wrong as this is a guess but it could be that only monitors with built in speakers would have hdmi as that carries audio too? Maybe look at small tvs instead of larger monitors if you want hdmi? I am not sure of all the trade-offs that would imply as I have a tv and a monitor... |
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