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[Vulpesveritas]

Well the budget I'll be looking at for the moment appears to be ~$650ish at the moment. So I'm debating on a tower or waiting for the Trinity APUs to come out later this year and getting a laptop.

But here is the tower idea:
Case: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811147144
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813157262
PSU: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16817182131
CPU: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819103996
GPU: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127665
ODD: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16827136236
RAM: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820103001 X2
HDD: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822145531
Cooling;
TIM: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16835426020
Heatsink - http://www.newegg.co...N82E16835103099
OS: WIn8 demo (will purchase win 7 later in year.)

Edited by Vulpesveritas, 10 March 2012 - 11:16 PM.

[bawchicawawa]

http://www.newegg.co...octua%20thermal (best thermal paste around)
Just thought i'd throw that in here. =p


Honestly, if you have a semi capable computer right now, i'd wait for trinity.
Could you post your current specs?

Edited by bawchicawawa, 11 March 2012 - 03:07 AM.

[Vulpesveritas]

Phenom II X4 N930 2GHZ
Mobile Radeon HD 4250
4 GB RAM


Should tell you enough ^^'
And eh, the GELID GC-extreme trades blows with the noctura paste, and is supposed to last longer... sooo... I'll go with the GC-Extreme. Some reviews say it outperforms the Noctura paste, others say the noctura paste is better. Eh.

[Vernius Ix]

That looks like a good build to me. I would suggest a different case though. I had a friend who used the case you have listed and had a lot of problems with the front connectors on it. Had to RMA three times to get a case that worked.

[Vulpesveritas]

Vernius Ix, on 11 March 2012 - 12:23 PM, said:

That looks like a good build to me. I would suggest a different case though. I had a friend who used the case you have listed and had a lot of problems with the front connectors on it. Had to RMA three times to get a case that worked.

Eh I don't use the front I/O panel much. And I'm going for the fact that it has the ability to hold a Hyper 212 Evo, larger graphics cards, comes with three fans, can mount a good number of fans, and with a modular power supply and decent cable routing has decent airflow for a mid tower.
And it's $50.
It's also a bit wider than the redbone / u3 I was looking at which looked cooler but I figured the destroyer held more so eh.

And if I get a larger budget I'll get this probably; http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811517012
or perhaps this if I got more fans for it; http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811146084

Edited by Vulpesveritas, 12 March 2012 - 11:49 AM.