Desktop Computers

No real need to upgrade that i7-970 if you're gaming, but why would you buy a 580 unless someone is selling it to you for dirt cheap? That card is old as hell. Pair that i7 up with a shiny new Nvidia 970 and you're golden.

AnandTech | Bench - GPU14

SSD prices just keep dropping more and more every day. I love it.

Frys is basically giving away a free 120GB Samsung Evo if you buy Far Cry 4 at full price
Samsung 120GB 840 Evo SSD $59 + Free Far Cry 4 Video Game BM @ Fry's - Slickdeals.net

240GB Crucial SSD for $80
240GB Crucial M500 SATA III 2.5 Solid State Drive SSD $79 + Free Shipping - Slickdeals.net

120GB OCZ SSD for $20
OCZ ARC100 120GB SSD (2.5 sata III) $19.99 AR + $4shipping (or Inner Circle FS) + a lot of McAfee hoops, but still, $19! - Slickdeals.net

480GB OCZ SSD for $160
OCZ AMD 480GB SSD $159 AR + FS @ Fry's - Slickdeals.net

250GB Samsung Evo for $80
http://slickdeals.net/f/7455734-250g...-free-shipping

Love it

I'm holding out for a 500GB Samsung Evo for about $150, it can't be that far away, they've already dropped about 20% in price just in the last week and are down to $199...so close.

Thanks for all the help in the past few weeks from Joeboo and others.

I was able to piece together the following for a pretty decent price:

PCPartPicker part list/Price breakdown by merchant

CPU:Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor(Purchased For $195.00)
CPU Cooler:Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler(Purchased For $31.00)
Motherboard:MSI Z97 U3 Plus ATX LGA1150 Motherboard(Purchased For $90.00)
Memory:G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory(Purchased For $74.50)
Storage:Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive(Getting this for Christmas)
Storage:Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive(Purchased For $44.00)
Video Card:EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card(Purchased For $352.00)
Case:Fractal Design Define R4 Blackout ATX Mid Tower Case(Purchased For $93.00)
Power Supply:Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply(Purchased For $55.00)
Operating System:Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)(Still need to pick this up or try to re-use my existing copy)
Total:$934.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-02 00:34 EST-0500

Now just to put it all together!

Only way they can compete with tax + counting on you buying other random junk while you're there.

Yep, total loss leader to get you in there, and it's glorious. It also works, everytime I've gone in for a processor and motherboard I always end up randomly buying something else. I'll see a decent deal on RAM or a hard drive, or an optical drive, or something.

popsicledeath_sl said:

Part Picker is a nice resource

I waited like 4 months last year watching it not go on a single sale until Newegg had their promo for 239. And then it stayed well above that most of the next 4 months or so I was looking to get a second/third, but price never dropped low enough to make me pull the trigger. It's still a strong monitor and decent value so my guess is pretty low chance it will go on sale again, much less to 219 again.

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Wow, I completely forgot about pcparts picker. Thanks! After looking at the sale history for the monitor, $219 was a stellar deal. NCIXUS has it for $239 so I'll just snag one of those. Live and Learn

You can buy a pci-e s-ata3 controller for20$so that's not a reason to upgrade the mb.

edit : actually i'm not sure you can boot from that one.

Really odd question.

I have a much older desktop that I'd like to "refresh" as a backup WoW box for when my other PC is in use. I've already bought RAM and upgrading the processor to an older quad core (Q6600). It's nothing special, but it plays WoW/SC2.

I'm thinking about picking up something like a GTX650TI or HD7770. Something from that generation, as it is running a Geforce 9800GT from many, many years ago.

Does anyone have one (or something similar) they'd like to sell? If not I'm just ordering off amazon, but figured I'd check here as I always have old components lying around.

The motherboard isn't too bad, even has 6gb/s sata ports:ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gbs USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com

After looking at some benchmarks I don't really see much reason to change my proc. I think I'll get just a 980 and use this box until something catches on fire.

So much for trying to grease by using an external USB3 SSD on my Mac Mini:



Just need a security torx TR6 now.

No way I'm spending $125 for a TB2 external housing.