Whats you gaming setup?

[StarsMine]

Here you go mikey, I was bored and made you a nifty shopping list. It comes to $868 INCLUDING your video card and 1TB hard drive (Compare that to $800 for just that barebone). Its got the absolute best RAM on the market PERIOD and a really nice mobo with what you need and none of the bullshit to hike price.

I made sure to give higher consideration to items with things like rebates and/or markdowns. You'll have to put the elbow time in yourself but that's half the fun! And it's cheaper than your barebone kit >.>

All items on Newegg.

1x COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000 Black Mid Tower
1x Western Digital Cav Black 1TB 7.2kRPM 32MB Cache SATA 3Gbps HDD <- Won't make use of all 6Gbps ur board delivers, but those drives are expensive. You can expand later. (Or now )
1x MSI 870A-G54 AM3 ATX Motherboard with USB3
1x XFX Radeon HD5770 1GB PCI-e x16 <- Exact card you wanted
1x XFX Black Ed 750W CrossFire Ready MODULAR PSU <- Modular = win. Also silver certified.
2x Mushkin Enhanced BLACKLINE 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600 <- Best memory on the market. Note to buy 2 kits for the full 8GB.
1x AMD PhenomII X6 'Thuban' 2.8GHz
1x CoolIT ECO-R120 Advanced Liquid Cooling Kit (Ceramic) <- This will be the only hard part of your build, but CoolIT has really nice tutorials on installation.

Here's an alternative MoBo, its basically big brother of the board I picked, and as such it is more expensive. However, its a beast board.
MSI M90FXA-GD65 AM3 ATX Motherboard with USB3

some changes
Its a gaming PC, put more emphases on the GPU, and really that RAM is not needed unless your putting on a 2.4 ghz ram OC... and thats useless, RAM OC rarely show themselves in real world applications

CPU- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-808-_-Product phenom xII 955
CPU cooler - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20master%20212 The Best cpu cooler under 60 bucks

and if you want http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007 for thermal paist

GPU - Either a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-518-_-Product and unlock it to a 6970
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-565-_-Product 560
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-418-_-Product 6870
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-419-_-Product 6850 all of these are much better then the 5770


and more reasonable ram if he so chooses, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231428


Edit... uhm did we forget Windows?

[dice]

CS:S utilizes CPU more than GPU, as it is an older game. Hence why I kept his 6core and the less powerful card.

And those mushkin sticks are cheaper and beat the shit out of ripjaws. Sure, memory OC isn't precisely necessary, but this kit shits on everything else out there stock. I've built around 20 pcs for people. I've used corsair, pqi, gskill, kingston, none of them hold a candle to mushkin. Mushkin is king of RAM. I'd do a fucking commercial for them.

Also, he wants liquid cooling, so a CPU fan isn't necessary. Water block ftw!

P.S.
While I was sitting here daydreaming about a Mushkin stick literally eating a G.Skill stick; I came across this:

Pros: Cheap and plentiful

Cons: A little tall... I had to install in a slot one over from the CPU fan because it wouldn't fit.

Manufacturer Response:
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Dear Customer

Thank you for your G.Skill purchase and review. We are sorry to hear the heat spreader did not fit in the first slot. This is odd as it should clear most aftermarket CPU coolers. Glad to hear you were able to remedy the situation by moving it over. Should you have any further questions or issues, please feel free to contact us directly.

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

Quality and customer service are our top priorities.

I laughed so hard my abs hurt

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

CS:S utilizes CPU more than GPU, as it is an older game. Hence why I kept his 6core and the less powerful card.

And those mushkin sticks are cheaper and beat the shit out of ripjaws. Sure, memory OC isn't precisely necessary, but this kit shits on everything else out there stock. I've built around 20 pcs for people. I've used corsair, pqi, gskill, kingston, none of them hold a candle to mushkin. Mushkin is king of RAM. I'd do a fucking commercial for them.

Also, he wants liquid cooling, so a CPU fan isn't necessary. Water block ftw!

P.S.
While I was sitting here daydreaming about a Mushkin stick literally eating a G.Skill stick; I came across this:




I laughed so hard my abs hurt

in what order should i install these parts?

also.. the only thing im contemplaiting is the cooling system..

Water or fan?

lastly.. with what im ordering.. will i need to purchas a wireless adapter? or will i be able to connect to the internet with what i have without an adapter?

[ZERO]

The order of the parts will be apparent when you have them unless you were never able to build lego.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

The order of the parts will be apparent when you have them unless you were never able to build lego.

im an expert lego builder!

its seems pretty easy up until this water cooling system and how to wire all the wires.

[mag36]

The order of the parts will be apparent when you have them unless you were never able to build lego.

lol aggreeed

Mikey best thing you ccan do is when you have your shit, put the ram cpu, and cpu cool together on the motherboard on the table and put your other shit together in the case and and when everything looks good drop the board in teh case and plug in wires .... most mother manuals will have easy instructions if your not sure where a cable goes. And if your system post your pretty much good... and install software

dont like wireless via gaming, specially for a desktop...... but if you cant run cables you will need to get a wireless adapter card then..... hell I got like 3 linksys oens lieing around

[Hitman]

Wiring is very easy. Just follow the manuals.....the worst part for me was installing windows on my old computer LOL. I had tons of problems for some reason.

[ZERO]

Actually I do not even think it is possible to wire something wrong b/c they only go one way...

[mag36]

ive seen people hook up HDD idicator light on and the power and reset switch bout other then that yeah its made for one way now it fits or doestnt so dont try and force anythin

[Wallet]

Board: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX-6300 6 Core O/C 4.0Ghz
PSU: EVGA 500w 80+
Graphics: MSI r7 260x (Hoping to get another for SLI, but its now expensive card)
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB
SSD: SandDisk 120GB (Only for Windows 10 Enterprise N)
HDD: 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM
50inch HD TV
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