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Another "Need help with building PC" thread
Topic Started: Dec 29 2011, 10:54 AM (418 Views)
Phantomjest
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Ho'kay. So I'm still a noob when it comes to building a PC and would appreciate some advice. I am hoping to build a PC that can play Battlefield 3 at the highest setting and want to keep the price under $1500. If you know of a component that performs similarly, but is less expensive, please let me know! =)

Here are some of the major components that I'm looking at:


ASUS P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III PE/OC GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V v2.2 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL

Sony Optiarc Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 8MB Cache SATA 12X Half Height Tray Blu-ray Writer BD-5300S - OEM
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Solid State drives are nice and all but if you're wanting to keep costs down a regular SATA hard drive would be better suited.
I just don't feel the increased cost and lower storage space make solid state worth it yet.

A regular drive won't hold your gaming back in any noticeable way other than possibly a few seconds of load times.

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burningmice
Dec 29 2011, 09:19 PM
Solid State drives are nice and all but if you're wanting to keep costs down a regular SATA hard drive would be better suited.
I just don't feel the increased cost and lower storage space make solid state worth it yet.

A regular drive won't hold your gaming back in any noticeable way other than possibly a few seconds of load times.
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Phantomjest
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Thanks BurningMice, I appreciate the feedback. =)

Those solid state drives are still new to be, but what I have heard and read is that it loads things super fast. I believe I also read something about a stability problem.
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Which CPU are you planning on using?
Initially I thought the motherboard was in a bundle with one but it doesn't look like that's the case.

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the SSD drive will make your PC load 100 times faster on boot up but when it comes to gaming like burningmice said you will see very little to no difference.

As long as your drivers are all up to date you shouldn't have no issues with a SSD. I was a little put off about getting one myself when reading the reviews for them because its horror story after horror story but I haven't had any issue with the one I got.
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My rig Runs Battlefield 3 on Ultra *sans Anti Aliasing* at 1440x900,it's a Core i3 2100 processor,a Radeon HD 6850 video card,8 gigabytes of ram,1 Terabyte 7200rpm hard drive,blu ray drive. all for under $700 and i get about i say 40-45 fps on battlefield 3. so that is my recommendation for a decent gaming rig for battlefield 3, if you want some more performance i recommend a i5 2400 it's a quadcore at 3ghz it's just a little more but it won't drive the cost up too much. the Z68 motherboards also come with Intel's Smart Response Technology where you can use a small SSD to boost the Cache Performace of the regular HDD to near SSD speeds.
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