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[eamo]

A system very like Crossmr's based around an i5 760 and a GTX460 with a gentle OC on both CPU and GPU could probably get you over 25 FPS in all but a few games at max settings at 1080p.

You're going to need to spend more than 200,000 for a new 27'' monitor.

That iCoda system you link is good spec at a very competitive price. But cost cuts have been made.
The GPU and mobo are low quality brands Asrock and Gainward......

and plain old Samsung RAM at 1333mhz which will limit any OCing you do.

PSU brand is unknown to me, and 600w which will be severly pushing it if you ever want a second GPU.

HDD is 1TB, not bad, but the standard is up to 1.5TB now.

If I was picking components to build a gaming rig for around 1.5 (excl monitor) I wouldn't pick any of those.

They'll probably work fine, but they might be noisy and hot.

[vDroop]

[crossmr]

[vDroop]

Generally they work with any mobo.

Just be careful. That one you linked won't fit for you. Those are standard 2.5 inch spaces and it's non flex so it won't fit.

You have an extra (half a full 2.5 inch slot of space).. I'm not sure if that makes sense. You don't need the full 5 inches from the one I linked, but the double 2.5 will be too long.

[crossmr]

Right. I actually found the asuszone site for korea selling the flex ones, but they're out of stock. I'll keep poking around. Thanks.

[vDroop]

Christ, 25,000w for a bridge... (Korea...)

By the way if you end up with a 2nd card and still no bridge, SLI will still work without the bridge and you will only lose around 10% performance, often less depending on the game.

[crossmr]

[red_devil]

[eamo]

Samsung RAM is definitely not considered enthusiast....Samsung RAM doesn't have heat-spreaders so is clearly not designed to be used in an overclocked system. Macs might use it because Mac's aren't meant to be overclocked.

500GB HDD's are standard? Afraid not. Maybe in laptops.....not in desktops. 2TB drives are on sale now. 1TB was the mainstream drive until about 6 months ago when the 1.5TB's came down to about $100 and became the mainstream choice. 1.5TB's are going for $80 now.

ASrock is the budget line of Asus.......not high-spec.

[vDroop]

Red Devil, I think it all comes down to what kind of system you want. Your OP is a very strong rig with all enthusiast level parts (watercooling, SSD, gtx 480 etc..) But the pre-built you have linked (other than the CPU) is all low end, budget parts. The rig will run fine, but is drastically different from what you originally posted. It's not future proof and it won't overclock well.

So I'm not sure what you want anymore. If you've moved on from buying a high end computer, down to a short term build on a strict budget, then you will be fine.

- Asrock used to suck but are decent now and very common in Korean builds, along with Foxconn. But don't expect great overclocking.
- The GPU is bad, and should be upgraded
- The RAM will be fine but don't expect great overclocking.
- The PSU is unreliable and too weak. Not future proof. I'd recommend against it. But it will still work until you start upgrading/overclocking.
- HDDs / ODD is really up to your expected use. I have no need for anything more than 1tb personally. If I built new right now, I'd get an SSD for the OS though.

I've built 6 computers in Korea, (2 high performance rigs in the past year) so if you want help with parts and crap let me know. The price of stuff here pisses me off so much that I'm waiting another year to build again.

[eamo]

[mrxwd]

Instead of buying the parts in Korea, what about buying them in the US and then bring them along when I leave to Korea?

Does anyone know if the airports/customs will have issues with this?

I was thinking of buying all the necessary parts in the US and then just look for a case in Korea.

[crossmr]

Unless you're getting very high end stuff, the price difference is negligible for the other stuff you could be bringing in it's place.

The CPU I bought, for example, was actually $20 cheaper here.

[vDroop]

Just to give people an idea how insane the prices are here, have a look at these comparisons on enthusiast parts: For the GMarket price I just grabbed the average price one from the search results.

*note - These parts aren't anything special, pretty average for an enthusiast, into overclocking or getting the most of their gaming experience

GPU:

GTX 480 AMP: Newegg - $499 USD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500166&Tpk=gtx480%20amp
GTX 480 AMP: GMarket - $721 USD - http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=193548797&pos_shop_cd=EN&pos_class_cd=90000001&pos_class_kind=T&keyword_order=gtx480+AMP

That's a 44% mark-up...

Motherboard:

Asus Rampage III extreme: Newegg - $364 USD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131642&Tpk=rampage%203%20extreame
Asus Rampage III extreme: GMarket - $621 USD http://english.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=195125290&pos_shop_cd=EN&pos_class_cd=90000001&pos_class_kind=T&keyword_order=rampage+III+extreme

A 70% mark-up...

I could go on and on. You get the point.

[red_devil]