So my parents have finally gotten it through their thick skulls that a desktop computer you bought 6 years ago will not run anywhere close to as well as it did when you first bought it, especially when you've upgraded its parts to the maximum. In other words, our 6-year-old desktop finally died (my dad still has hope for it, he took it into Geek Squad at Best Buy to run diagnostics) because of a faulty PSU (as old as the computer). So, he's been shopping around for parts and whatnot and has come up with the following list of computer parts. I'm literally copying this from what he's written down; if something sounds strange, it's most likely because I can't read his handwriting:
Motherboard: LGA 1366 Core i7 ATX
PSU: Corsair 650W
Processor: Intel Core i7 (3.2 GHz) 960 series/8MB cache
Memory: (Triple channel) 12GB DDR3 (3 x 4GB) (he wrote "CRUCIAL: 1333" next to this, not entirely sure what it means, but I think I have some idea of it)
HDD: Seagate OR Western Digital 1TB SATA drive/32MB cache
DVD drive: 24x DVD ± RW Super Multi-Drive
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
USB: 6x USB 2.0/2x USB 3.0 (on back) (yay USB 3.0)
Graphics card: NVIDIA PCI Express 1GB 16x GT 460
Monitor: Samsung 24" LED SMS (not completely sure what he wrote here...?) 1920 x 1080
Case: (again, not sure what he wrote here) "Cooler Master HAF Case" (...?)
Total price: $1141.38
Opinions? Suggestions? Worth the price? It looks pretty awesome to me, but then again I know there are many people here that know leagues more about computers than myself. He talked to a guy at cpusolutions.com to get all this information, they do custom builds for what seem to be relatively good prices.
Thanks in advance.
