It's been… four and a half years since I last built a computer for video games. I'm here to share my excitement and get some feedback on my proposed build. Let me know your thoughts. (Oh, I stole the template from Tom's Hardware.)
I last built a game computer in 2008. It's long outdated.
Background
Approximate Purchase Date: October 1, 2012
Budget Range: $1000 Before Rebates, Before Shipping
System Usage from Most to Least Important: gaming only
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: CPU, mobo, RAM, video, PSU; adding SSD
Parts to Reuse: case (Antec Solo 2008), SATA DVD, two SATA HDDs, X-Fi Titanium sound card
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon.com, newegg.com
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1600x1200
Additional Comments: My preference is for quiet components that don't run hot. I'm not interested liquid cooling. Games I'm looking to play are newer (to me!) games like Skyrim, Witcher 2, Metro 2033, Borderlands 2, Civilization V, the new XCOM, the new SimCity.
I think everyone can agree that it's better for OnLive to survive with half its people losing their jobs rather than all of them losing their jobs. However, OnLive sure made it look like it was hiding something dirty by saying "everything's fine, nothing to see here, move along" rather than just being straight with everyone.
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