The Official Unofficial PC building thread!

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

I just accepted an offer from Intel, which means I get some pretty (very) lucrative deals on processors, SSDs, and the like. Looks like I'll be rebuilding my PC very shortly.

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**joerod** · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1570 Location: Racine, WI

Damn, forgot about this thread....

Anyways, I've updated my wishlist. I feel this is a pretty strong build for my needs.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=15415706

EDIT: Hey fenster buy me stuff! >_>
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject:

**Squirrel** · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject:

**joerod** · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1570 Location: Racine, WI

If you approve, that's good enough for me! :P

I'm basically giving this wishlist out as my xmas list (plus WoW: Cata), so hopefully I'll have all the components by spring.
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**FlannelJacket** · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 921 Location: :U

I was gonna make a wishlist out of the stuff I built my computer out of earlier this year, but wouldn't you know it, most of it isn't available anymore. But luckily, I was still able to find my order histories.

**Urisma** · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject:

Pretty nice system, Flannel. I like those multicore Athlon IIs. Fantastic for that price range.

Anyway, I'm still rocking my desktop I built 2 and a half years ago ( Q6600, 8800gt, 4 DDR2 gigs ram), and it suits my needs fine. Plays startcraft 2 on max, along with all the other games I play. Lately though I've been inheriting old laptops (about to get number 3 quite soon though). Oldest one makes a great seedbox, if I would ever turn it on. Need to figure out how to SSH into it and such. My main laptop is a ~2008 ish macbook, 2.4ghz duo, 2 gigs ram. Runs real nice with Ubuntu.

As far as building goes, I've been helping friends with builds. Most recent one was the tomshardware $1,000 september build. It's way nice. HAven't gotten to use it personally, though I've seen the hardware, and it's beautiful.

**Squirrel** · Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject:

**joerod** · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1570 Location: Racine, WI

Yeah I'm not worried about the harddrive, since I have like 5 TB in externals in 3 different brands. I might just throw in a cheap 320 GB or something., save a few bucks.

And yeah, I went back and changed the mobo;...definitely worth it

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**NudePanda** · Joined: 18 Jun 2009 Posts: 117

Alright, I think its time for me to upgrade from my Asus laptop that I have had for about 2 years or so. It ran very well the first year, but after that it just went to crap with running WoW and SC2. I know I will be buying a desktop this time for sure, but im not sure how i will go about doing this.

Im guessing that building my own is the best option by reading your posts. If i were to build my own, what do you guys recommenced? im looking at around $1500 or less and will run WoW/SC2 with little or no FPS drop.

Oh by the way, im not super good with computers, so if you could explain a little more, that would be greatly appreciated.

**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

I need a gaming laptop (I know, lol, rofl, etc.), preferably within a budget (Christmas Money Budget, 900 or below if possible). Just needs to be beast for games (WoW, LoL, etc. The more, them merrier). Any suggestions? I don't need one with 1 TB of Hard Drive or something, I can always upgrade that easily.

EDIT: What about this one?

Or this one? seems pretty good for a good price

**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL

**McSkinny** · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject:

**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL

**Garwood** · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 720

If someone else would like to petition for control of this thread or however that works so you can edit the OP, I haven't really been paying attention to it, too busy playing games since i got my new PC. . .

So yeah.
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