I was looking into replacing my old laptop, which for the standards back then was top of the line and even now it is still not too bad. Still – I needed something more current. After doing intense research on what components to get, I decided to go with the basic components first, making sure it has everything it needs for the next components to come.
Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D Premium
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 930 2,8Ghz @ 4Ghz
Fan: Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme
RAM: OCZ Gold XTC (OCZ3G1600V2G) Triple 2GB – specifications are off, but this is what Everest tells me
PSU: Fatal1ty 750W
Graphics: nvidia GTS 8800 (my brother’s old graphic card he left me behind)
HDD: 2x 500gs
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 1000
These were pretty much the basic components to use. I choose an i7 over an i5, just because of the limitation that i5 CPU/Motherboard have – they do not support dual 16x-PCIe, which makes would slow down a SLI or CrossFire configuration.
The motherboard I was struggling with. Only choose ASUS over the EVGA x58 FTW3, because they didn’t had any in stock (was shopping in Microcenter). Also one of the reps told me that ASUS has better overclocking abilities.
That’s it for now, soon I will update to Dual 460s and to Raid0 SSDs, which more storage on a different array. Furthermore I wanted to add backplanes to the HDD inlets of the Cosmos case. Let’s see how that one goes. So far – I’m pretty happy for the performance that I’m getting out of the basics.
