Antec Solo II case 115
Seasonic 460W fanless power supply 80
Asus BC-12B1ST blu-ray player 50
Intel 320 series 120gb SSD 120
Dell U2412M monitor 290
Klipsch Promedia 2.1 speakers 90
Sennheiser HD 280 headphones 70
Intel i5-2500k processor 160
Gigabyte Z68X motherboard 120
Logitech Illuminated keyboard 35
Logitech G9x mouse 40
Linksys WRT54GL router 50
Canon MX882 printer 65
Creative Labs Titanium X-Fi HD soundcard 50
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OS 80
Antec Truequiet 120mm fans (2)/Scythe 25
Thermalright Ultra 120 Rev. C heatsink/fan 50
Corsair 8gb low profile memory 40
TOTAL 1530
Cherry picked deals throughout the 2011 holiday season. Waiting on Kepler release (rumored March 23) to decide on graphics card. Wish there would have been deals on the Crucial M4 128gb SSD at the time, just a few days ago was $130 at Newegg. Ah well. Best score was the sound card from Best Buy (price mistake). I know my router is old school, but I have very limited wireless needs.
I'm still trying to decide on how to set up my new rig.
Currently what I've decided on is
An Intel I5 for CPU
Radeon HD6850
8gigs of RAM
and a 64G SSD
still need to decide on what to use for my mainboard and harddrive
..This would all be much easier if I had any knowledge on computer parts whatsoever
I went with something similar and I did a Gigabyte z68 mobo (there are a ton of options anything around $100 will work fine)
I went crucial for the SSD....all the reviews I read said Crucial is the best one. Keep an eye on slickdeals.net They had a 128 SSD for $130 free shipping a week ago.
I build it in about 45 min. Posted fine. Windows 7 installed in about 15 minutes.
I press power I am playing Star Craft 2 in less than 30 seconds.
I'm waiting for the new Ivy Bridge processors to come out, so in that regard the D3 delay served me
I was thinking about it also but I wasn't sure how long I would have to wait. I also gave myself a small budget of about $300 to get the motherboard and CPU so I doubt I would of had the money for an Ivy Bridge. At least I can play the Beta at high graphics no problem.
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I am as well, but I'm going all out (well actually about 85% out).
Just ordered a Dell Ultrasharp 30" Monitor, pretty excited for it to get here wednesday so I can see the beta at 2560x1600.
On the 12th I plan to order my new pc.
Asus Rampage Formula x79 or z68 equivalent
Intel i7-3820 or 3930k or I might go with a 2700k - still mulling it over
Cooler Master Cosmos II Case
Corsair H100 Cpu Cooler
2 EVGA GTX 570 2560MB in SLI
16 gb of DDR 1600, either gskill or corsair
850 watt PSU, either coolermaster or corsair
With the current sandy bridge processors being such beats, sandy bridge-e just coming out, and Ivy Bridge on the horizon it's a hard time to make a decision.
Yea a bit overkill lol... Could always overclock the 2700k pretty ez with that cpu cooler too
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Mobo
i5 2500k @ stock for now
16GB RAM @ 1600MHz
MSI GTX 570
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
LG Blu-Ray Burner
All in an Antec 902 case
And I love it. Runs beta maxed out without a single hiccup.
Just a quick question, I've played APB (which is meant to be a hard on computers) on full graphics etc and had 0 problems, ran as smooth as normal settings.
I get about 150FPS on MW3.
I can't see D3 requiring have more requirements than those games, or am I wrong and I should look into upgrading?
I will upgrade at some point this year, was already looking but postponed it.
reason for this is in ~june the upgrade from intel comes out, then the sandy bridges might drop a bit more in prize i hope.
Also around that time we can expect the new generation nvidia cards.
I've built my setup mostly around Diablo 3 requirements:
Gainward GF GTX 570
Core2Duo E7400 2.8 GHz
Intel SSD 310 80GB
4GB RAM
Corsair Professional Series HX850W PSU
This setup should be quiet and quite cool with Diablo. I didn't need gtx 570 but I know that it has nice cooling system and it is quiet and it can send audio through hdmi which I will need for my most important part of setup:
TV Philips 46PFL9706 with MothEye
and Chord SuperShield HDMI High Speed with Ethernet & Audio 2m
TV is the most important as Diablo 3 will be dark so seeing all dark and whites with perfect contrast and without reflections day and night is a must. Second most important is SSD as I hate w8ing for any loading. Other elements are just nice match to TV or what may be required for Diablo 3 taking for consideration that I like my computer quiet, stable and as cool as possible.
so many overkill builds in this thread... lol. Just for refrence, 1920x1080 @ 120fps, max everything, and forced 16x AA/AF puts a single gtx 580 at around 50% load. SLI, about 30% each card. So all you people out there with 60hz monitors, even main stream video cards will kill this game. The one thing that may hold back max framerates... like ALL blizzard games, is cpu clock. even then though, with stock cpu clocks, you'll still get 60fps easily, its mainly only for people who have 120hz screen, or hate vsync for some weird reason and want 1123151 fps at all times.
so many overkill builds in this thread... lol. Just for refrence, 1920x1080 @ 120fps, max everything, and forced 16x AA/AF puts a single gtx 580 at around 50% load. SLI, about 30% each card. So all you people out there with 60hz monitors, even main stream video cards will kill this game. The one thing that may hold back max framerates... like ALL blizzard games, is cpu clock. even then though, with stock cpu clocks, you'll still get 60fps easily, its mainly only for people who have 120hz screen, or hate vsync for some weird reason and want 1123151 fps at all times.
Game runs like shit regardless, I got 2x gtx 580s, i7 3.06 and pci-x 480mbps read/write ssd and run bf3 and Tera on max possible and doesn't budge below 60 fps, but in d3 I swing a mace I drop to 20-40 frames.
Seasonic 460W fanless power supply 80
Asus BC-12B1ST blu-ray player 50
Intel 320 series 120gb SSD 120
Dell U2412M monitor 290
Klipsch Promedia 2.1 speakers 90
Sennheiser HD 280 headphones 70
Intel i5-2500k processor 160
Gigabyte Z68X motherboard 120
Logitech Illuminated keyboard 35
Logitech G9x mouse 40
Linksys WRT54GL router 50
Canon MX882 printer 65
Creative Labs Titanium X-Fi HD soundcard 50
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OS 80
Antec Truequiet 120mm fans (2)/Scythe 25
Thermalright Ultra 120 Rev. C heatsink/fan 50
Corsair 8gb low profile memory 40
TOTAL 1530
Cherry picked deals throughout the 2011 holiday season. Waiting on Kepler release (rumored March 23) to decide on graphics card. Wish there would have been deals on the Crucial M4 128gb SSD at the time, just a few days ago was $130 at Newegg. Ah well. Best score was the sound card from Best Buy (price mistake). I know my router is old school, but I have very limited wireless needs.
I went with something similar and I did a Gigabyte z68 mobo (there are a ton of options anything around $100 will work fine)
I went crucial for the SSD....all the reviews I read said Crucial is the best one. Keep an eye on slickdeals.net They had a 128 SSD for $130 free shipping a week ago.
I build it in about 45 min. Posted fine. Windows 7 installed in about 15 minutes.
I press power I am playing Star Craft 2 in less than 30 seconds.
Went with...
radeon 6850 gpu
Intel i3 Cpu
Intel H69 motherboard
8 GB corsair memory
Antec 300 case
Already had Windows 7 so the build only cost $600, all off newegg. Love it so far...
Forgot to add 6850 is complete overkill for d3 but looks pretty great.
8GB RAM @ 1600MHz
GTX 570 Overclocked
CPU Overclocked @ 3.8GHz with a Noctua NH-D14 monster cooler
My older GTX 275 was starting to show its age with these newer graphic intense games coming out
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Mobo
i5 2500k @ stock for now
16GB RAM @ 1600MHz
MSI GTX 570
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
LG Blu-Ray Burner
All in an Antec 902 case
And I love it. Runs beta maxed out without a single hiccup.
I get about 150FPS on MW3.
I can't see D3 requiring have more requirements than those games, or am I wrong and I should look into upgrading?
reason for this is in ~june the upgrade from intel comes out, then the sandy bridges might drop a bit more in prize i hope.
Also around that time we can expect the new generation nvidia cards.
Gainward GF GTX 570
Core2Duo E7400 2.8 GHz
Intel SSD 310 80GB
4GB RAM
Corsair Professional Series HX850W PSU
This setup should be quiet and quite cool with Diablo. I didn't need gtx 570 but I know that it has nice cooling system and it is quiet and it can send audio through hdmi which I will need for my most important part of setup:
TV Philips 46PFL9706 with MothEye
and Chord SuperShield HDMI High Speed with Ethernet & Audio 2m
TV is the most important as Diablo 3 will be dark so seeing all dark and whites with perfect contrast and without reflections day and night is a must. Second most important is SSD as I hate w8ing for any loading. Other elements are just nice match to TV or what may be required for Diablo 3 taking for consideration that I like my computer quiet, stable and as cool as possible.
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