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| Super Techie Join Date: Dec 2004
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| My friend recently asked me to pick out the parts for his new PC and build it for him. His budget is $1000~$1500 with the monitor and it's a full build (needs everything except OS). He'll be using it for a lot of movie watching, music, and gaming. I came up with this build but feel free to make any revisions before I place the order. Wish list details
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| looks pretty good, does he plan on doing any OCing?
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| Yeah, I forgot to mention that. He's looking to push it to 3.0.
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| looks good all around, you could always do minor upgrades on them if he wouldnt mind spending a little more but nothing too necessary
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| I guess I should also note that he wants this to be future proof for a bit. Ideally he still wants it to play on high settings on new games two years from now with minor upgrades here and there along the way. Is that mobo a good choice for that?
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| teh Official Crysis Hatah | that board is fine as long as he doesn't need/want to do crossfire
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| ^^^ That sounds close to right. Maybe 2.5 years. Hard to say. I bet a GPU switch though at 2 - 2.5 years would give him some more longevity. Good Build. Although, I would get a Tuniq or TU120 cooler instead to go past 3.0 on the Q6600. When needed I'll do a CPU switch and/or GPU switch to delay buying a new build so expect that.
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