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sparky26
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_ 		8. December 2009 @ 16:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi how you doin just here looking for some advice on a pc build

I have bought a case Antec 1200

cpu cooler corsair H50

HD samsung spinpoint F1 1TB sata2

motherboard GIGABYTHE p55-ud3 p55.socker -1156

Corsair HX 650W PSU

Intel Core? i5 Quad Processor i5-750

thats all i have bought so far so all i need to get is RAM

And Graphics card so i would like any advice on the 2 items

that i havent bought for this pc build

i am using this pc for gaming and just surfing thats pretty much it

any help would be really appreciated

thanks
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KillerBug
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_ 		9. December 2009 @ 03:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
4GB Memory (you could get 2 sets for 8GB, but I don't think you would need it yet given what you use your system for): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145260

Graphics is a bit harder to say, given that I don't know your budget. You can get a 5870 for $440, or a 5850 for $310, or one of many other cards if your budget is lower than this:
5870: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150456
5850: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102857

Also, I would return that hard drive if you can...Samsung might be the worst harddrive brand around, and the F1 is the most unreliable drive they make. I would honestly trust a 4-year-old Seagate over a brand new, DOA tested Samsung.
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sparky26
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_ 		9. December 2009 @ 13:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey there thank you for replying to my message :-)yeh i can afford

to go for that graphics card cool thanks,so what other hard drive

do you recommend then if thats bad the samsung thanks again

im gonna get a corsair ssd for my os so it boots up fast
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KillerBug
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_ 		10. December 2009 @ 04:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Either WD or Seagate. I personaly prefer Seagate; one of the other senior members prefers WD...but these seem to be the two most popular brands on AD. Other than the 1.5TB drives, both brands offer drives in 5400RPM and 7200RPM in just about every size. WD tends to be a bit more expensive...but not too much more.

If you have the money, you could go with a 300GB WD VelociRaptor 10K drive...that would be about the fastest thing short of SAS, SSD, or hardware RAID.

If you had even more money, you could go with a 4-port hardware raid card and 4 15K hitachi drives (these drives will not work with SATA like the 10K VelociRaptor does)...but now we are talking about $1600 or more just for 1.2TB of non-redundant hard disk space...and you could probably get a lot more performance spending the same money on other parts.
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