$1500 PC (updated 11/15/2011)
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Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 $254.99
It's a tossup between this board and the Asus P8Z68 Deluxe, but Gigabyte wins out on material quality, as subjective as that is.
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K $319.99
Hello, 4GHz
Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 $84.99
The best air cooler ever made. Period.
RAM: 8GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 $49.99
Dual channel DDR3-1600 is more than enough to keep this system chugging along just fine. It's a complete waste of dosh to step up to something faster, however, because the overclocking burden has been shifted from the RAM to the CPU.
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 $350
Yes, the GeForce GTX 580 is a faster card. It's also $140 more expensive for 15% more performance, and you're on a budget. The 6970 is still a bitchin' fast GPU, and this bad boy supports up to six monitors with the right adapters. Not bad for $350 bones.
Power Supply: Corsair TX750 V2 $104.99
A sterling rating on JonnyGuru.com, a fabulous warranty and headroom to spare make this PSU the perfect choice for a system in this price range.
Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D $189.99
The 650D is as easy to work with as it is elegant. With top-notch cable management and a spectacular build quality, this is one of the best PC cases on the market.
SSD: 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 $189.99
In the land of SSD performance, read speeds are king, champ, and OCZ is at the top of food chain for 2.5" disks. Hilariously fast, and a bargain at $1.57 per gig, the OCZ Vertex 3 continues to prove OCZ's preeminence in this space by keeping it simple: it blows the competition away on a SATA 6Gbps port.
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black $219.99
The Thailand floods have jacked the price of this hard disk through the stratosphere, but the WD Caviar Black is an exceptional hard disk. If more storage is your cup of tea, there are larger models as well.
Optical: Samsung 22x DVD writer $19.99
One would hope a savvy user like you has transcended the needed for the quaint polycarbonate discs the plebes use, but if you simply must have a burner...
TOTAL $1529.92
NOTES: Alright, we're $30 over our budget, but this 1TB hard drive was less than $100 last month. We promise we'll hit the mark when Thailand is done being washed away. You still have an exceptional system with world-class parts from stem to stern: the latest games are toast.
It's a tossup between this board and the Asus P8Z68 Deluxe, but Gigabyte wins out on material quality, as subjective as that is.
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K $319.99
Hello, 4GHz
Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 $84.99
The best air cooler ever made. Period.
RAM: 8GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 $49.99
Dual channel DDR3-1600 is more than enough to keep this system chugging along just fine. It's a complete waste of dosh to step up to something faster, however, because the overclocking burden has been shifted from the RAM to the CPU.
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 $350
Yes, the GeForce GTX 580 is a faster card. It's also $140 more expensive for 15% more performance, and you're on a budget. The 6970 is still a bitchin' fast GPU, and this bad boy supports up to six monitors with the right adapters. Not bad for $350 bones.
Power Supply: Corsair TX750 V2 $104.99
A sterling rating on JonnyGuru.com, a fabulous warranty and headroom to spare make this PSU the perfect choice for a system in this price range.
Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D $189.99
The 650D is as easy to work with as it is elegant. With top-notch cable management and a spectacular build quality, this is one of the best PC cases on the market.
SSD: 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 $189.99
In the land of SSD performance, read speeds are king, champ, and OCZ is at the top of food chain for 2.5" disks. Hilariously fast, and a bargain at $1.57 per gig, the OCZ Vertex 3 continues to prove OCZ's preeminence in this space by keeping it simple: it blows the competition away on a SATA 6Gbps port.
HDD: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black $219.99
The Thailand floods have jacked the price of this hard disk through the stratosphere, but the WD Caviar Black is an exceptional hard disk. If more storage is your cup of tea, there are larger models as well.
Optical: Samsung 22x DVD writer $19.99
One would hope a savvy user like you has transcended the needed for the quaint polycarbonate discs the plebes use, but if you simply must have a burner...
TOTAL $1529.92
NOTES: Alright, we're $30 over our budget, but this 1TB hard drive was less than $100 last month. We promise we'll hit the mark when Thailand is done being washed away. You still have an exceptional system with world-class parts from stem to stern: the latest games are toast.
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