New PC

[Sataynia_]

Got most of my parts, well all save a new HDD.

i5 2500k
8gb ddr3 1800 ram(2x4gb)
geforce 550ti video
Sata DVD drive
Gigabyte mother board with build in LAN/Sound pcie 2.0 compatible/usb3 as well
antec 900W Power supply.
using my old HDD which was a 750gb sata drive


should be a screamer.

[Yooxra]

Sounds like you are

not

prepared!

Remove the Quote for the proper statement.

[Sataynia_]

bah, what would you of suggested ).. after i copy all of my pertinent shit to external drive, ill be reinstalling windows xp 64bit.

[Yooxra]

Originally Posted by Yooxra

Sounds like you are prepared!

Remove the Quote for the proper statement.

^

[Yooxra]

Looking to get a 560 prolly next year early. No rush with my current set up.

[Sataynia_]

lol, i mis-read that completely. yeah i wanted a 560 but shit it was another 100 bucks, and the performance increase wasn't enough for me to do that yet. besides ill SLI another 550 and call it good when i get more cash.

[Onion]

You should have got that asus mobo that like has it's own cooling case, also quad channel memory > dual ftw

Also, no SSD and corsair PSU > antec

[Sataynia_]

well the PSU i can change, i will need another when i put the other pc together for my son, ill just get myself a new one ).

i used to by asus, but had a huge problem awhile back with an RMA and shitty service, so told myself i wouldn't go back.

[Kz]

i agree with onion and why u buying such a huge PSU when ur only gonna run a single card?

edit: the 550 Ti benchmarks pretty low too

[Kz]

id get a 750W PSU Corsair and a 560 or 560 Ti. the 560 benchmarks almost 1000 points higher than the 550 Ti ( which is only 192 bit. instead of 256 like the 560 series.) if u want to SLI them eventually its recommended that you at least have 800W but i dont think u will need to SLI this card at all.

save 50$ on psu and the gpu gonna cost u about another 90-100$ so overall 50$ more expensive i think you will like it a lot more.