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Originally Posted by marty_mcfly
i'm looking into building a new PC but am not too familiar or up-to-date with parts.
what are some of the cool or "hottest" parts to have right now?
video card
motherboard
ram
audio card
etc etc
thanks
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I built my system roughly 1 1/2 ago so it is "out of date" even though it will rape 99% of systems out there.
Here are a few things you should put into consideration:
Are you going to be overclocking? And do you know how?
SLI or single card?
Water Cooling or fan? Or both?
How big do you want your tower?
Are you going to trying to get a decent 3DMark score?
How much money are you willing to sink into this beast?
Here is what I could get with a budget of around $2000 which is a decent budget:
CoolerMaster Cosmos case. (I regret not getting this baby everyday)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119138
Thermaltake 1000Watt PSU
http://www.provantage.com/thermaltak...u~7THER04H.htm
Intel i7 920 Nahalem 2.66quad core 8mb cache (plenty)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115202
Cooler Master V10 fan (excellent cooling and it cools the ram also)
http://www.sundialmicro.com/cooler_m...1740_1528.html
EVGA X58 SLI/Crossfire ready board (best on the market)
http://speedycomputing.com/index.php...132-BL-E758-TR
OCZ Blade Series DDR3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227414
Nvidia GTX 295 (If you have deep pockets add 1 or 2 for maximum performance)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143167
Atleast Dual Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM
(Set these these things in Raid-0 to fly) add Terabyte Hard Drive for all your porn also.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136296
LG Blue-Ray player
http://www.acnt.com/product.asp?pf_id=DVDRWLGB100
Creative-Labs X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card
http://www.altex.com/COCLBlaster-X-F...A-P143110.aspx
That should do it. If I missed anything feel free to pm me. If you have any questions at all or want to paypal me some money lemme know.
Here's a picture of my system:
