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Dang Pick, I about laughed when you said you were gaming at 1280X1024. You NEED a new monitor. 24" is the new minimum, my friend.
If your case has a cutout underneath the motherboard, then you can install the fan that comes with your processor and switch to the Archon when it arrives. Just don't overclock.That is the only thing I didn't order through NewEgg and it hasn't shipped yet (completed though so hopefully see it soon but wouldn't be surprised if video card beats it here).
1280 x 1024, isn't that the old square monitors? :XDang Pick, I about laughed when you said you were gaming at 1280X1024. You NEED a new monitor. 24" is the new minimum, my friend.
You are a good man, MC!It's Pick's lucky day. I had a fast 6.0 SATA 7200rpm 1 TB drive that I had bought before the whole flooding issue happened sitting in my office that I didn't need yet. So I charged him a 1 penny premium over what I paid in February and now he is almost ready to build.
Best deals as far as I can tell. Doing research on monitors is a pita.Got hung up in registering to buy that card last night and didn't get itI've emailed them and complained but doubt I'll hear back.
Going to buy one of these monitors today:
Planar 27" for $240
Asus 24" for $180
Planar is 3" bigger and has a 20% better contrast ratio (1200:1 vs 1000:1). They are comparable in every other aspect.
The Asus is wildly popular but the Planar, while less popular also has stellar reviews.
I would recommend this for Drifter as well.It's a bit more pricey, but you get more pixels than most 27" monitors and it's an IPS panel.
Saw that one too but the contrast is lower than the Planar and the response time is 8ms for grey to gre - that seems slow and more of a tradeoff for resolution than seems wise, no?
It's been going on and off sale for a couple of weeks.
So for a good monitor are we targeting $200-300?I can be a little selective and use the old monitor for a few weeks I guess.
Yeah - after watching this for a couple weeks, you can get a pretty good one at $300 fairly regularly. I'm still hoping to see a jaw dropper below that point, but $240-$300 is probably the expectation with patience.
1200 WOW.....Dang Pick, I about laughed when you said you were gaming at 1280X1024. You NEED a new monitor. 24" is the new minimum, my friend.
My monitor is the next thing I need. I have a 2 year old 20" HP 1600x900 max res I think. Nice monitor but I need to upgrade for sure
LED backlight. Good price. Not the super high resolution but will produce vibrant colors and is fast and bright.
Had my Corsair 120 for a few years and no complaints whatsoever.
The price has gone up on this one so it now really isn't that great a deal for 90 GB IMO.
Sweet. The
in me is living vicariously through you. I love setting-up my gear on the coffee table, turning on football, and taking a few hours to put together a PC. You might want to grab some cable ties -- gotta make sure your cabling is tidy!
I agree. I love putting it all together.Sweet. The
Also, don't forget thermal paste (your Archon should come with it, but check when it arrives). It sucks to start your build and realize you don't have any (speaking from experience).
I have like 3 tubes of Arctic Silver at my office if not.
This 560 is overclocked, so I don't know what that does to the comparisons. But, the 560Ti compares to the Radeon 6870. The regular 560 is a lesser card. For this price, you can own a Radeon 6870.ETA - seems like a good price on the SSD, but note that it is SATA II, not SATA III.
Not a bad deal here. You certainly could do worse, and this gets you your toys before the holidays.
Since you already have something workable, I'd wait a month or two and see what that 7xxx release by AMD does to the market.
5850 is a great card still. Hold.
I think they had you get a MICRO mobo... which probably should have been a regular mobo.F me I think the HSF is too big. It either overlaps the RAM or barely overlaps the x16 slot. It's gotta go in the x16, right? I'm going for it but there might be physical contact between HSF and card.Master nerds were supposed to not let this happen.
nope, just string em together on the same power line with the optical drive (if you have one). if you have a modular power supply even easier.
There should be a cpufan plug. Plug your CPU fan into it. You may also have sysfan plugs. If you do, and if your case came with fans that have the female version of that plug, plug as many case fans as you can into those. They'll allow your motherboard to take readings on the fan speed and allow it to slow the fans down if the system is cool.
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