My goal is to build a high end gaming PC.
I have been researching a lot lately to find the best parts.
I will be buying the parts one after another, building it slowly and posting pictures and updating here.
I am about to buy my case in 5 minutes. My case will be the
Antec Twelve Hundred. It is 159.99 and looks great and has great reviews. What I was looking for here was a steel case with great ventilation. This case comes with that and more. It has 5 120mm blue LED fans, 3 in front and 2 in back. Then one large 200mm blue LED fan on the top. Each fan has an adjustable knob for Hi, medium, and low speeds. It also has 2 extra 120mm fan slots on the side next to the side panel that you can use if you buy 2 more fans. This is one hell of a case and I'd like to hear what you guys think about it.
My CPU will be the
Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield 2.8GHz LGA1366 130W Quad-Core. I chose this over the faster Core i7-870 2.9GHz LGA1156 mainly because of the LGA platform. As you may or many not know, Intel is coming out with a new series around January 11' and those will be 1366 based, and I'd like to be able to upgrade to one of those instead of having to buy a whole new motherboard. Plus, I can always overclock.
My video card chosen was the
GeForce GTX 470 1280MB. I was originally going to buy the 1 Gig 460, until I found out it only supports Dual-SLI. I am disappointed in that because instead of replacing my things, I like to add on to them. Now, the 470 does indeed support 3 way-SLI, which I means I can buy one now. Then in 2 months get another, and in another 2 months get another. I better make sure I have the power supply though. Which I do, which I will explain what power supply I am getting later.
I chose 4 Gig's or RAM which I will explain later as well. I currently only want 4 gigs and I plan and eventually keep buying more until I reach my maximum of 24 Gig's. For no reason, just because it's cool.
I will update with my hard drives, power supply, and motherboard tomorrow.
I'd really like to hear some comments from you guys. I know some of you are real computer savvy as I am. So I'd like to hear from you intellectual badasses out there.
tldr; version: I build computer. It let me play games. Monies.