What's Your Computer Build?

Just ordered a new one.

HP Envy Phoenix 860-160st

Microsoft® Office Trial
•No Additional Security Software
•Home and Home Office Insert
•HP USB volume control Keyboard and USB Optical Mouse
•7-in-1 Media Card Reader, 4 USB Ports (Top), Audio [Top 2USB2.0, 2USB3.0]
•Integrated Sound
•16GB DDR4-2133 DIMM (2x8GB) RAM
•1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6G 3.5 2nd HDD
•SuperMulti DVD Burner
•Windows 10 Home 64-bit OS
•HP Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 1x1 with Bluetooth® M.2 NIC
•6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700 quad-core processor [3.4GHz, 8MB Shared Cache]
•2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 [DL DVI-I, HDMI, DP, DP, DP]
•256GB 3D SSD

I just ordered an additional 16GB for a total of 32gb of DDR-2133 and an additional 480GB SSD.

I'll use the 256GB SSD as my Windows drive, 480GB SSD as my programs drive and but my current 2TB drive in in place of the 1TB that is coming w/ the system

My two year old self-assembled computer:

i5 4430
Asus z87k
8 gig ddr3
MSI GTX 970 Gaming
Samsung 240GB SSD
Samsung 500GB SSD
1TB HDD
Fractal 500W Gold PSU
Win7 64

and i get 40-60 fps when running GTA Online with everything maxed out at 1080p

very nice!
but I dont quite understand why you choose a rather low end video card for such a nice rig

It rates 229% better than my current system card and my budget made me make decisions on where to best spend the money. Therefore I stuck w/ the stock card and it will be updated at a later time.

sorry I was replying to mr Erik Klein's post
I do understand that you bought a brand name computer but he seems to have assembled his own just like me so I was simply wondering about his choice of video card

AMG FX8350
16gb ram
asus mobo
samsung SSD 250gb
Nvidia gtx460(upgrading to 1060 when it comes out)

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New 'Build'....

Late 2012 Mac Mini
2.5ghz Intel Core i5
16gb 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (1536MB)
256 SSD
500gb 7200rpm HDD
2TB 7200rpm External HDD
24 Inch IPS Asus Monitor

FuturamaJSP wrote in post #18066862
sorry I was replying to mr Erik Klein's post
I do understand that you bought a brand name computer but he seems to have assembled his own just like me so I was simply wondering about his choice of video card

I didn't realize that was directed at me. There was a fixed budget - the boy is 14 - and tradeoffs were made. The hope is that the Christmas money this year is enough for shiny new video cards...

Erik S. Klein wrote in post #18067009
I didn't realize that was directed at me. There was a fixed budget - the boy is 14 - and tradeoffs were made. The hope is that the Christmas money this year is enough for shiny new video cards...

All the Pascal cards should be very cheap by then so it's a good plan

Dlee13 wrote in post #18067069
All the Pascal cards should be very cheap by then so it's a good plan

I wouldn't count on it. Given Nvidea's past I doubt you'll see the Pascal cards dropping below $350 or so for quite a while... up until the end of last year it was hard to find a GTX 970 for less than that even after the R9 390 came out.

That's kind of why I think it's so funny that so many people are acting like buying a 980 or 980 Ti is the dumbest thing ever right now... it's not when you consider that you can find 980 Ti's for less than $375 right now and 980's for less than $325 and they honestly don't perform that much worse if you look at all the 3rd party (not directly from Nvidea) review benchmarks, especially since most people are finding that there's generally better overclocking overhead on the Haswell cards.

good plan!
so will it be 2x 1070 or 2x 1080?

FuturamaJSP wrote in post #18067408
good plan!
so will it be 2x 1070 or 2x 1080?

We were at Best Buy the other day to get a new mouse. (As an aside, $70 for a MOUSE?????) and he was fondling the 1080.

More than he can afford, I'm afraid... So far, anyway.

His birthday and Christmas are close together so he may have a shot at one...

check prices on newegg, they usually have better prices than BB.

Intel i5 4690K @ 4.5 ghz
rx 480
msi gaming 5
16gb ram

DagoImaging wrote in post #18067835
check prices on newegg, they usually have better prices than BB.

Yep. That's where we bought his parts for this build.

The mouse was just a "hey, isn't Best Buy around the corner? I'd love to finally get..."

Funny part was that he was looking at a keyboard as well and we were checking out the various mechanical keyswitch units. Those run $100 and up, of course. He decided that he didn't need a new one but would just take one of my many IBM Model M keyboards instead.

I've never been prouder.



He was offered a new-in-box unit but was horrified that I'd even suggest that. He pulled a used one from "The Pile (tm)" and cleaned it up nicely.