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[jstubley80]

Still looking into the prospect of building a PC..

A Norwegian friend of mine dropped a small fortune on the following build..

Cooler Master HAF X Big Tower Sort Vifter: 1x 230mm Front, 1x 200mm Topp, 1x 230mm Si

Corsair HX 850W PSU ATX 12V V2.2, 80 Plus Silver, Modular, 6x 6+2-pin

ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Socket-1155 ATX, Z68, DDR3, 3xPCIe(2.0)x16, CFX&SLI, SATA 6Gb/

Intel� Core? i7-2600K Processor Socket-LGA1155, Quad Core, 3.4Ghz, 8MB, 95W, Boxed

Antec Kuhler H2O 620 CPU Kj�ler Socket 775/1155/1156/1366, AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+, 1450

Kingston DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz 16GB Kit w/4X HyperX 4GB DDR3, CL9-9-9-27, 240pin

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 1536MB PhysX PCI-Express 2.0, "Super Overclock", GDDR5, 2xDVI,

Corsair SSD Force Series? 3, 90GB SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA3.0), 550MB/500MB/s read/write, S

Seagate Barracuda� 7200.12 1TB

I'm guessing this is overkill, but I'm curious as to how much a similar system coud be put together for in Korea..

[Nuggets]

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[vDroop]

[Gideon]

[eamo]

A gaming rig costing as much as 3 mill with a single graphics card? Am I reading that right?

90% of what gets the high FPS comes from the graphics card(s). That much money without an SLI or Crossfire set-up is a waste.

Cut out half of that RAM and the SSD's, use the money saved to add a second GPU (or third!), and he'll get much more performance in real-world gaming.

[Nuggets]

[vDroop]

K, I was bored so I took average prices from G-Market, Compuzone, and Joyzen. Yeah, you could probably dig and get them a bit cheaper, but on average:

Case - HAF X: 270,000
PSU - Corsair HX850: 270,000
MOBO - Asus P8268-V PRO: 310,000
CPU - i7 2600K: 400,000
Cooler - ANtec H20 620: 90,000
RAM (Kingston hard to get in Korea so I used Ripjaws at the same speed) 16GB: 180,000
GPU - Gigabyte GTX580 700,000
SSD: Corsair Force 90GB: 240,000
HDD: Barracuda 1TB: 155,000
He Doesn't list an optical drive for some reason.. but you could say 40,000

Total: 2,655,000 won

I built an i7 960 rig for around that 2 years ago. Craziness.

[jstubley80]

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Before recommending a setup I'd like to know the monitor size which will be used, the kind of games which will likely be played on this rig (RPG, First-person Shooters, MMO's), and if you'll be up for some overclocking.

[jstubley80]

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I'd say the following rig will get you over 30 FPS, using highest settings, @ 1920x1080 definitely (2560x1600 maybe) in all the current games as well as likely anything to come for a year or two.


CPU: Intel 2500k..........................240,000

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3.....220,000

GPU: 2 x Nvidia 560ti in SLI .......or, cheaper option...........2 x Radeon HD6870 in Crossfire
A pair of 560ti's will be around 580,000.....a pair of 6870's around 480,000.

RAM: G.Skill DDR3 8GB (4GBx2) Ripjaws XL 1600mhz......83,000! (amazing value)

PSU: FSP Aurum AU-700...............160,000

Case: Coolermaster CM690 II Advanced.........130,000


The HDD situation is tricky right now with the floods in Thailand causing prices to almost double............if you're feeling rich then get a 128GB SSD for around 250,000........and a Seagate 1TB HDD to hold you over until the HDD shortage eases up.


So, that's approx 1.4 mill for the system without hard drives......it depends what you want to do there. Put in the 128GB SSD approx 250,000 and a 1TB HDD approx 150,000 and that adds 400,000 so about 1.8 mill in total I'd say.

And I wouldn't match this system with anything less than a good 27'' monitor. Preferably 30''.

[jstubley80]

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We're not allowed to talk about the latter and more preferable choice!!