[Build Help] Newbie feeling a bit lost on what parts to pick.
Hello swede here. Old computer broke down about a year ago I've been saving up money to build a new one. The main focus is gaming but it will be used for many other things like Photoshop, programming and i want to try some 3d work.
I've been looking around at Tomshardware and sweclockers and the only components im confident about so far is the CPU and the GPU.
i have almost 16000 SEK (2 500 dollars) available
This is what i think so far
CPU: i5 2500k
HDD: SSD around 100Gb for operating system HDD x 3 2TB each and going for raid 5. other then size i don't know how interpret the stats. how would having HDD on diffrent SATA ports Speeds(3 and 6 Gb/s) effect raid?
RAM: i was thinking somewhere above 8Gb probably 16
GPU: 570 GTX I'll add another later on.
CASE: i have no idea what to look at other than i should have enough hard drive slots. I don't really care about how it looks.
PSU: i haven't looked at this yet as i don't know how much power i need until i know what other parts i want.
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 going of a review from tomshardware but I'm still feeling kinda uncertain about it.
Monitor: uncertain what to look for. I want 1680 x 1050 as max resolution, what other Criteria should i have?
OS: i'm going to dual boot Debian and windows 7
I'll continue my research, Any pointers to good sources?
Posted Sep 20, 2011, 8:27 PM UTC · edited