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Jakejaves Original post #1
Sep 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM
1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run?Which games? Which applications?
Ans: i'll be playing games like COD, BF3, GTA4/5,crysis,fable3,sim city,..

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans:60k and it may go under 60k but not above..

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans:yes (i52500k) ?

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans:windows 7 64 bit

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans:i already have a 1 tb hdd,if necessary try to squeeze in a ssd..

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans:22" or 24" but with 1060x1050 native resolution and please make the monitor as cheap as possible...6 to 9k ?

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:i have a zotac gtx 670 2gb ddr5 and 8 gb transcend ram @ 1600mhz and 1tb hd seagate..i just bought them they r new.. So yeah I am gonna use..i need the every other part of the system..

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: septemper 26

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: yes I have..and yes this will be done by an assembler

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans:i live in bangalore.. And yes I buy locally..never "onlined" anything before...

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
If possible : cut down the expense to 55k and I need a sli mobo for the future ... I will upgrade the psu later..so reccomend a psu required for current usage..is 16gb ram required ?
Skud
Skud #2
Sep 15, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Align your thread properly.
J
Sep 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Align your thread properly.

I cant... I guess... Becos I am using a mobile browser.. what do you "align" in here anyway ? o_O
Skud
Skud #4
Sep 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM
OK. Done it.
CentaurDream
Sep 15, 2012 at 2:19 PM
What is the reason for 1060x1050 resolution? Why don't you get a 1080p monitor?
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Sep 15, 2012 at 3:36 PM
What is the reason for 1060x1050 resolution? Why don't you get a 1080p monitor?

If I buy a 22 or 24 inch monitor with 1920x1080 resolution and I play at 1060x1050 resolution will the game look good ?
CentaurDream
Sep 15, 2012 at 6:18 PM
If I buy a 22 or 24 inch monitor with 1920x1080 resolution and I play at 1060x1050 resolution will the game look good ?

No it wouldn't.
But why would you want to play BF3,GTA4/5,Crysis,COD etc in 1060x1050 ?? :|
Skud
Skud #8
Sep 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Not much of a problem, but you already have a good card to fly through most of the latest titles at 1080p. :)
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acewin #9
Sep 16, 2012 at 1:17 AM
and why insisting on 6-9K monitor

Motherboard Asus Maximus V Gene 15,000
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO 17500

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PSU Corsair TX650v2 -- 6,000
Cabinet Corsair 400R -- 5,500
or NZXT Phantom 410 -- 6,500 ~
or NZXT Phantom -- 8,000 ~
SSD Corsair Force 3 60GB -- 5,000
Monitor BenQ G2420HD -- 10,000
or Dell U2312HM/U2311H -- 15,000
Optical Drive Asus DRW-24B5ST -- 1,000
Keyboard Razer Arctosa -- 2,300
or Logitech G105 Keyboard -- 3,000~
Mouse Razer DeathAdder 3500DPI -- 2,300
CPU Cooler CM Hyper 212 Evo -- 2,000
or Noctua NH-D14 -- 5,700
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Jakejaves #10
Sep 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Thanks.. Luv the config... :D