New Comp

I'm in the market for a new computer too, waiting for kepler release and hopefully 7970 price drops to follow.

I don't know anything about eyefinity setups, do you game over all 3 monitors?

Also, 850W seems a bit overkill?

I'm not going to game on all 3, but i guess i could since all my monitors are 1920x1200 since one is 22" and the otehrs 24" though it's be confusing , but I am going to have all 3 setup for different things..work, internet, misc or soemthing similar.
850 is overkill currently, but if I feel the need for some godawful reason in the future to do a crossfire with 7870s then I will need the 850W roughtly since the total power after overclocking comes out to ~800W..buying the 850 now was just to save myself annoyance later

I'd get an SSD and use it to cache since you're getting a z68 board.

Good SSD choice, the 256gb version is a little faster though.

Diablo 3 does not require that good of a video card, probably run it on max settings with anything over 100$, get a 6950 or something, and get another in the future if necessary.

look pretty good. def buy now instead of eternally waiting.
one thing to check is that the motherboard has enough slots for what you want. so, does it have PCI-E or whatever it is, and how many sata HDDs can it support. same for PSU, will it have enough outputs for your HHDs + DVDdrive but seems like you have gone for quality there.

@egood...im not sure how much of an advantage using a cache ssd would bring since I already will have a ssd for programs and the hdd will be mainly data....ill look into it more though once i get my hdd figured out

@daemon...i couldnt figure how to put the 256 into my budget :-/ its anout $200 more than the 128 so it eats into my hdd and gpu budgwer. But i guess if I can go w/ a cheaper card I can get it. Ill see what D3 does and seerr about leaving leftover for one.

@silver...has 2 sata III so that fits my ssd(s)...4 sata II so enough for a dvd drive and hdd since i dont think those saturate sata II..i will need a converter since the mobo doesnt have a usb 3.0 header...figure $5 converter is cheaper than the price dif to upgrade the mobo and i wont be using anything on the front ports where 3.0 would be super advantageous

splurg and get the new GTX 680
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review

U do realize that D3 is from blizzard and therefore will run at FULL HD and maxed grafik settings on a 4 year old computer ?
Blizzard games always do.

On 3 Monitors it will probably take a lot more ressources but not more than any of the current games do.

i havnt looked at building a new pc in a couple of years, is 3 monitors possible as standard on gfx cards these days? i remember before you would be looking at running 2 gfx cards in SLI if you wanted more than 2 monitors.

and ya d3 will definitely not be an issue for ya

W/ all amds yes if labled w/ eyefinity and has a display port connector on the card...only nvidia that does 3 by itself is the 680

i want to build a computer with alike specs than yours very soon

^Personally if I were you (since you have more money then me...i'm assuming ur playing 3/6+) my build-budget and idea would be something along the lines of.
Build Date: April 30th-May 15th
CPU: i7-3770k--$340
Cooler: air or liquid, ur choice--$120
GPU: GTX 680 or AMD 7970--$500 or ~$400
SSD: Samsung 830 256GB: $350
MoBo: Asus Z77 (I think is the Ivy bridge top type for overclockign)--~$300
Case: Same or Corsair tower--$80 for mid, $200 for full
Ram: Corsair or kingston 8GB--$70
HDD: 3TB-$180
PSU: Good brand, 750W Modular-$110
Total: $2170
All those prices are at market without any discount and just off the top of my head. With looking around for deals (slickdeals.net , techbargains.com , etc) you should be able to get below $2k with ease, maybe even down to $1800 range.
O I also dont know if id need the hypertheeading of the 3770. If not then go 3570k, which saves $100 for almost certainly the same performancw. Cut case down to $130 range, and with saving otherwhere in places where I over eastimated price (like mobo can be $250 and still be damn good) you may be able to find $400 in savings that u could put into a second 7970 or even go for it all and do SLI with the nvidia 680s *drools*

Looks good. I recently upgraded my CPU without doing any research. Got the i7-990x for $1,030 on newegg. Barely overclocked it passed 4.4 with h100 push pull config. My brother just got 2600k+mobo for $250 from a micro center deal and he's running 4.8 with a busto air cool config. Temps and benchmark almost as good as mine -_-

damnit your brothers got the deal I wanted ..i got my i7 to 4.6ghz...could try going up to 4.8 like i originally planned, but 4.6 seems good enough...i'm debating adding a second fan to the h60 to make it push pull but am not in any rush

On March 23 2012 06:35 palak wrote: HDD: 3TB-$180

Link to this HDD please?

I was reading at NewEgg reviews for Western Digital, Seagate, and Samsung hdd's, people were saying there was some flood awhile back at the place they make Western Digital's, and a couple others mentioned it on the Samsung page, I'm not sure if these are all made near the same location.

Anyway, due to the flood or whatever, hdd's are almost double than what they were 6 months to 1 year ago. I saw people saying they spent $79.99 for a 1tb Samsung hdd 6 months ago, now it's $109+.

p.s. I just bought everything to make a new computer, yesterday, except for a new HDD. I'll continue to use the one in my Dell Inspiron (300gb) that I bought 4.5 years ago, until the prices for 1tb+ drops.

p.p.s. I'm a Samsung snob, they've never let me down from TV's to phones to monitors, etc. So I'm wanting to get a Samsung hdd if possible.
A lot of reviews on these Western Digital and Seagate drives like "Barracuda" and "Eco Green/Green" drives all have terrible reviews if you look closely.

^
http://www.thenerds.net/WESTERN_DIGIT..._TB_Internal_Hard_Drive.WD30EZRX.html
Ignore that "platform support mac", people are running it (or claiming to) on newegg w/ windows 7...more just make sure u have a proper mobo which you prob do since ur building a new system.

Also
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicatio...ails.asp?EdpNo=1310560&CatId=4357

Slightly more expensive but I think better quality then the first
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicatio...ails.asp?EdpNo=7288043&CatId=4357


This graph makes me cringe...damn floods