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Hey guys,

Just wondering if some of you could point me towards some of the better online businesses I can buy parts from to build my own PC, or even let them build it, if they can do it cheap. I used to know a few but simple cant remember them and google keeps sending me to crap.

Cheers.

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PCCG generally cost a little more than MSY

If you want to wait in a line (rather than online order), you can save yourself at least $100 if not more.

Depends on the parts you want as MSY dont stock a wide range, just a lot of the similar.

Thanks for all the info guys.

Getting a little lost and overwhelmed on what I should be buying. I pretty much want to run Battlefield 3, Diablo 3 and Skyrim all at high settings, with the ability to upgrade my PC in the future, and run any games that come out in the near future, even if that means playing them on lower settings.

Could I build a gaming tower capable of that for $1,500-2000? I've tried reading some articles but I get lost even doing that because most assume you already have a pretty good understanding of how a PC runs.

Thanks again.

I think the sandy bridge will remain at a similar price when the lga 2011 comes out later this year, but will drop significantly when the ivy bridge gets released next year.

But then again, I'm probably wrong anyway...

Prices will drop once the 6 series Nvidia stuff comes out and also when AMD's Bulldozer comes out in the next few months. And yeah go with PC Case Gear, they used to be a lot more expensive than MSY and CPL but they've become a lot more competitive in the last couple of years.

two on one boards are pointless, too hot and noisy, and the top end single cards in SLI / crossfire are faster anyway for the same price or less usually ;)

If upgrading from a POS now, go sandy bridge, otherwise wait for bulldozer / ivy bridge (mind you ivy bridge probably isn't until next year though!)

Apparently the difference between 2500K/2600K is SFA for games. If you use a lot of multi threaded apps, thats where you'll see a jump in performance.

Depends whether you care about the bragging rights of owning an i7 I guess.

Not sure about the i5 but all of this quadcore+ processor stuff is a bit useless atm with minimal programs making use of all of them. Remember when the dualcore was released?? Software and games took forever before starting to take advantage of the extra core.<BR><BR>That being said, I know most programs are capable of utilizing two cores so try buying a processor that has the turbocache feature; increasing frequency when only two of the four+ cores are being used.<BR><BR>And, for the record, Ivy Bridge is set for release March 2012. But the LGA-1366 successor, LGA-2011, is set for release later this year. I'm waiting for Ivy Bridge - by then it'll have full USB3.0 functionality (not semi like most motherboards on the market today) and PCIe 3.0. <BR><BR>EDIT - Only downfall would be video cards making use of the PCIe 3.0 capabilities - since theyre struggling to reach the limits of PCIe 2.0... but we'll see by this time next year anyway.

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