Hey whats up guys i just actually build a Hole new comp all from newegg and cost me aroun 1500 ....i got 12 g of corsair dominance ram....gtx 560 ti graphic card evida....a i7 960 bloomfield....60tb ocz SSD and a 1 tb Seagate HD....and a evga x 58 motherboard along with a coolmaster v 8 cpu cooler...and i went with the coolmaster sniper case....i put it togather my self and had a friend who works at a comp place and has been building comps for 10 years and he said its a perfect build and it is deff fast and will last a while in the long run in my option.

ok...

A 60TB SSD eh? Well that must have cost you a fair bit of money.

Also have you heard of a return key? No "...." is not the same as a line space between paragraphs.

And why are you telling us this?!

For that money you could have gotten a lot better. The i7 is the old one and not as good as even the current i5's, the x58 chipset is also old and pretty much obsolete nowadays. 560ti is the sweet spot along with AMD's 6950's for price/performance but again with that budget you could have gotten better.

Your 'friend' has led you astray i'm afraid.

Congratulations.  It's 2012, and you just bought a Bloomfield processor that launched in 2008.  Which means it's about time to replace it already.

Okay, so you don't really have to replace the processor yet.  But you did just miss all of the improvements that have happened since Bloomfield launched, so the time to replace the processor will come a lot sooner than if you had bought something more modern.  You also paid extra to get a very old processor.  Intel doesn't slash prices on old, discontinued products.  They leave them on the market to see if suckers who found three year old advice online will buy them.  That's why you ask for advice before you buy a new computer, not after.

Drak you would be better off going a bit conservative on the processor. IMO you should go with AMD 990X/FX motherboard, A relatively inexpensive FX-6100, 8gb of fast ram, 500GB hard drive, 64gb Vertex 3 SSD.

And the radeon 7970.

Don't panic because later this year you can pop in a 10 core AMD Piledriver into the exact same system.

In the end you will have a much better system, for less money.

But you already bought the system. have fun.

Originally posted by grndzro

Don't panic because later this year you can pop in a 10 core AMD Piledriver into the exact same system.

There is no such processor, and never will be.  Vishera only goes up to eight cores.

Not the processor I would have choosed for that price,  while it isn´t really bad a I9 2600 is a lot more priceworthy and I also would have gotten a 120 GB SSD or at least 80GB, 60 just is a bit too little if you want a few favorite games installed on it as well as the OS.

And what PSU did you get BTW? Did you get a coolermaster with the case or what? How powerful?

It is a pretty OK game computer that should last you 3 years or so, but not exactly the build I would have put up myself with that sum. I would probably have lowered the ram to 8Gb as well on 2 4Gb chips so it would be easy to upgrqade later and I might have saved a few bucks from the start on a smaller HD like 500GB or so. Things like that is easy to upgrade later if needed, changing the SSD isn´t.

I tend to be cheap on the case as well as long as it is large, heck I have my water cooled hexa core in a 10-15 year old chieftech maxi tower that looks anything but fancy by now. :)

Originally posted by grndzro

Drak you would be better off going a bit conservative on the processor. IMO you should go with AMD 990X/FX motherboard, A relatively inexpensive FX-6100, 8gb of fast ram, 500GB hard drive, 64gb Vertex 3 SSD.

And the radeon 7970.

Don't panic because later this year you can pop in a 10 core AMD Piledriver into the exact same system.

In the end you will have a much better system, for less money.

But you already bought the system. have fun.

Yeah, I hear fearies will fly and deliver those...

Originally posted by Loke666

Not the processor I would have choosed for that price,  while it isn´t really bad a I9 2600 is a lot more priceworthy and I also would have gotten a 120 GB SSD or at least 80GB, 60 just is a bit too little if you want a few favorite games installed on it as well as the OS.

And what PSU did you get BTW? Did you get a coolermaster with the case or what? How powerful?

It is a pretty OK game computer that should last you 3 years or so, but not exactly the build I would have put up myself with that sum. I would probably have lowered the ram to 8Gb as well on 2 4Gb chips so it would be easy to upgrqade later and I might have saved a few bucks from the start on a smaller HD like 500GB or so. Things like that is easy to upgrade later if needed, changing the SSD isn´t.

I tend to be cheap on the case as well as long as it is large, heck I have my water cooled hexa core in a 10-15 year old chieftech maxi tower that looks anything but fancy by now. :)

I7 k series is socket 1155 and is EOL stuck at 4 cores. The point of my build is to gear up for the AMD 10 cores comming later this year.

And I would have to lean toward Capstone power supplies after reading a lot of PSU reviews lately ^^

Unless you horde anime like a packrat or never uninstall anything a 500GB is the sweet spot if you want to use a Raid in the future IMO. Personally I would buy 320gb WD hard drives because of their notorious reliability. Although 1tb drives are becomming very inexpensive. Don't trust seagate.

Damn I just put together a Tandy 1000 ex computer, with 256k ram and  a 16 color RGB monitor with a sweet 8088 processor

Cant wait to try the new best games on this rig.

Originally posted by grndzro

I7 k series is socket 1155 and is EOL stuck at 4 cores. The point of my build is to gear up for the AMD 10 cores comming later this year.

And I would have to lean toward Capstone power supplies after reading a lot of PSU reviews lately ^^

Unless you horde anime like a packrat or never uninstall anything a 500GB is the sweet spot if you want to use a Raid in the future IMO. Personally I would buy 320gb WD hard drives because of their notorious reliability. Although 1tb drives are becomming very inexpensive. Don't trust seagate.

I do have heard about the Piledriver chip but that was last summer, nothing new since, are you sure that it will launch this year? I think I read somewhere they planned to launch it late this year at the time but I assumed they have gotten issues about it and we see itt 2013 or so.

I prefer the Corsair V2 Pro myself, it is excellent but a little expensive.

As for Seagate I have owned a lot of drives in my time, Seagate and WD are about the same quality and the rest of them is even worse. A 5% chanse of dying the first weeks is something we have to live with no matter the drive except possibly IMB but they cost way more.

But yua are right about anime packrat, I have 4 TB filled on my computer even though I uninstall stuff I don´t use.

Originally posted by grndzro

I7 k series is socket 1155 and is EOL stuck at 4 cores. The point of my build is to gear up for the AMD 10 cores comming later this year.

There is no such processor coming to desktops in 2012 or 2013.  Or at least so says AMD.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5491/amds-2012-2013-client-cpugpuapu-roadmap-revealed

Originally posted by Entropy14

Damn I just put together a Tandy 1000 ex computer, with 256k ram and  a 16 color RGB monitor with a sweet 8088 processor

Cant wait to try the new best games on this rig.

No need to be snotty, OP did at least get a lot better deal than if he would have *gasp* bought a brand computer like Dell or HP. Heck, it is really hard to get a pre built computer with similar speccs for 1500 bucks, they usually suck one way or another badly.

Originally posted by Quizzical

Originally posted by grndzro

I7 k series is socket 1155 and is EOL stuck at 4 cores. The point of my build is to gear up for the AMD 10 cores comming later this year.

There is no such processor coming to desktops in 2012 or 2013.  Or at least so says AMD.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5491/amds-2012-2013-client-cpugpuapu-roadmap-revealed

Hah, actually found where I read about it: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/26/amds-10-core-piledriver-chips-revealed/

Not that PC gamer should know this better than AMD of course...

true, since i way over spent on my comp, with a recent upgrade 7970) which i know and most do is overpriced since cards just as good or nearly as good will be out soon for a much better price.

but i was just having fun with the OP , since he only has  1 post and opens up with that i really doubt it was that serious of a thread to begin with.

Look at the dates.  AMD had planned on making a 10-core processor for servers, though it supposedly wasn't going to be Socket C32/G34 like the ones they have out now.  If they have to change the socket for servers, then they likely would have had to do so for desktops as well, so it probably wouldn't have fit Socket AM3+ anyway.

That was cancelled, however.  Instead, their next generation will be basically the same as Zambezi, except that AMD will try to fix whatever went wrong.  For example, it will have Piledriver cores rather than Bulldozer.  The good news is that it will fit Socket AM3+.

Originally posted by Quizzical

Look at the dates.  AMD had planned on making a 10-core processor for servers, though it supposedly wasn't going to be Socket C32/G34 like the ones they have out now.  If they have to change the socket for servers, then they likely would have had to do so for desktops as well, so it probably wouldn't have fit Socket AM3+ anyway.

That was cancelled, however.  Instead, their next generation will be basically the same as Zambezi, except that AMD will try to fix whatever went wrong.  For example, it will have Piledriver cores rather than Bulldozer.  The good news is that it will fit Socket AM3+.

That was the cancelled bulldozer opteron part. AMD moved up Piledriver to Q3 2012 and confirmed an AM3+ part since Bulldozer has some problems. Hell if all goes smoothly we might see Piledriver near 1H 2012 depending on respins.

Originally posted by grndzro

That was the cancelled bulldozer opteron part. AMD moved up Piledriver to Q3 2012 and confirmed an AM3+ part since Bulldozer has some problems. Hell if all goes smoothly we might see Piledriver near 1H 2012 depending on respins.

That do sounds interesting, you don´t have any useful links to where we can read more about that?

The only thing I really read about the piledriver is the link I posted and similar old stuff.

Google >"10 core piledriver 2012" there should be plenty of links in 2 pages.

Edit (Oops I never looked closely at the revised roadmap)

10 core piledriver is only for servers.

the 8 core Delhi AM3 variant will be using strained SOI to allow 20% higher frequencies. So....

+15% Bulldozer > Piledriver

+15-20% Strained SOI

+10-15% for windows 8 "SMT"

So the low ball figure between Bulldozer on W7 and Piledriver on W8 is around 40% more performance.

Given the performance numbers between W7 and W8 for WoW

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-23.html

80 fps multiplied by 1.4 gives 112fps beating the 2500k 

Multiplying 2500k's FPS of 96 by 1.09 gives 104fps bringing SB from 3.3ghz to 3.6

So if all goes well Piledriver will indeed compete with Sandy bridge in IPC since WoW is not a heavily threaded game. And it has 8 cores.