Hey, why the old 1155 socket? New CPUs for 1150 (4th generation Core i3,5,7) are priced the same. Your hardware is two years old from the start.
I bought the motherboard several months ago. Typically, when I build a new PC, I buy the parts as I can afford them (saving the video card for last). I've had the case and motherboard for a while. I just got my Xmas bonus from work and am buying the rest of the parts after Xmas.
Thanks for the suggestions guys. To answer a few questions:
I am for sure future-proofing this rig. I did that with my last one and it's just now started to show its age after 5 years.
For the hard drive, I forgot to put in there that I've already got a 2TB drive that will go in for data storage.
As for the i7, I do a lot of flight simming and X-Plane is actually more dependent on processor speed than graphical speed, plus I'll probably be doing some photo and video editing on there as well.
For work, I have multiple browsers and programs running so the 16GB will help out with that (but yeah, it's still probably overkill).
I'll check out the cheaper RAM and a better cooled video card.
I'm about to build a new PC and would like you all to look over my parts list that I have built and offer any suggestions.
I'll be using this PC for both work and gaming. My work is web-based so I'm not too concerned about the specs for that. As for gaming, I do a lot of racing (mainly iRacing) and am building this to be able to handle 3 monitors. I play all kinds of other games, but don't plan on doing much triple-monitor gaming other than racing and flight simming (no need for 3 monitors on XCOM, IMO). I'd like to keep the budget pretty close to where it is ($2000 plus or minus a couple hundred)
Anyway, the link to my PCPartPicker.com list is below. I've already got the case and the motherboard so those are set in stone. Thanks for looking!
Great work. This is incredibly disappointing for me. I've been a huge Forza fan since 2. Forza is the reason I became such a huge fan of motorsports. I've always thought of Turn 10 as the good guys. Clearly they've taken a downturn.
Just came in 4th in the Mazda Cup on Lime Rock, my best finish ever. Got my safety rating up to 2.89 in Road, need to do a couple more races to get up to 3 so I can get promoted and get out of the Rookie series.
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