My possible new PC

[thecanadianrail]

Well i am looking at new PC's now and i have contacted a place to buld one for me and this is what they came up with.....i am not so farmiliar with pc parts and stuff so i want your guyses opinions if this is an ok deal or not?

Custom Built Touch Gaming System
$1825 +taxes
Antec P280 Chassis w. front panel USB and audio
Thermaltake 750W power supply
Asus P8Z77-V-LX mainboard
Intel Core i5-2500k 3.30GHz 6Mb cache quad core cpu
8Gb DDR3 RAM Memory (2x 4Gb) Kingston HyperX 1600MHz
Intel 520 series 60Gb SSD + WD Caviar Black 1Tb in RAID0 cache
LG DVDRW optical drive
ASUS Radeon HD 7870 2Gb PCIE video card-------Upgrade video card to Radeon 7970 3Gb (+$225)
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
3 year Touch System Warranty

[bnsfsubdivision]

what about a Intel Core i7-3960X 4.5 Ghz

[thecanadianrail]

what about a Intel Core i7 4,5 Ghz

you are basicaly paying extra for something you will never use

[bnsfsubdivision]

well i guess your right but your pc would be realy pretty good to handle railworks ( i mean with the Intel Core i5)

[thecanadianrail]

thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

[arizonachris]

thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

I wouldn't count on that. Upgrade because it's time, not for RW. You may be surprised that it won't make that much difference. Almost $2k with taxes is a lot. I think they are charging a little too much. Check with Mdurdan, he just got a custom built PC for a lot less, and with similar specs. I always build my own. it's a lot of fun and work but it's gratifying.

[thecanadianrail]

thats what i wanted to hear! no more below 14fps 24/7 for me!!!

I wouldn't count on that. Upgrade because it's time, not for RW. You may be surprised that it won't make that much difference. Almost $2k with taxes is a lot. I think they are charging a little too much. Check with Mdurdan, he just got a custom built PC for a lot less, and with similar specs. I always build my own. it's a lot of fun and work but it's gratifying.

you must also place into fact that i live in the middle of....well too far from civilization to have much of a choice....i won't order something so expensive from online.

[Chacal]

Check for external eSata ports. I'd want at least 2, preferably 4.
This way you can have an external disk toaster, ideal for backups.

[kin3]

Also get at much ram as you can afford.

[thecanadianrail]

well i ended up getting a new pc today, although it wasnt originaly what i said i was getting. i ended up picking up a labtop....but it is a very good labtop imo and should be worlds better than my desktop pc.

this labtop has the following stuff:

8gb ram
ADM A10-4600M APU
Radeon HD 2300mhz quad core
1tb hard drive
8192mb ddr3 sdram
and some sorta good radeon graphics card that i cant remember which one it is lol (2gb extra ram)

tell me what you all think of this?