By us, I mean everyone in my family.

yeahurite

But get a high end keyboard, mouse, and possibly a second monitor with the money you have left over.

No, you should be buying a shotgun, rope, and a couple heavy duty plastic bags

For your grandma

>>2537040
I need a laptop too.

Buy a sound card too.

sorry about your grandfather dood

>>2537066

Lol no

>>2537075

Sound cards take load off your CPU.

>>2537070
He was an asshole anyway, and he left behind like $5mn USD, so it's all good

highest end creative sound card, 8GB of DDR3 memory (and a motherboard that supports it), dual monitors, etc

get a X38 chipset or GTFO

Oh god no.

You are DOING IT INCORRECTLY MY FINE SIR

quadfire is utterly worthless. get the new seagate 1.5tb hdd which is like $30 less than that wd 1tb. a nice sound card will make this really great, and ditch the p45 for an x38 mobo.

Put it in the bank you irresponsible little shit.

>>2537460
>>2537491
>X38

This isn't fucking March, it's fucking October. The X48 has been out for a while now.

>>2537494

you jealous?

>>2537022

1TB drives are still new and will probably have a higher failure rate.

In my book, anything with the name of powercolor is as bad as buying parts on e-bay, you do not know what you will get.

>>2537504

X38=X48 dumbass

>>2537504
You're probably a little underage retard. Nobody even remotely mature would use "fucking" in the way you do.

>>2537494
She's sending 6 grand a year till it's all gone. Even after she dies. The only reason she doesn't send more is because it would be taxed if it was more than $6k.

>>2537530
X38 was officially 1333, not that all the makers listened.
X48 cemented 1600 and is essentially considered a range of premium X38 motherboards.

Doing it wrong. Don't buy a stupidly expensive computer. Buy stock. I bought 50 shares of apple at 30 bucks a share with some inheritance money in 2004. It split into 100 and I sold it last year.

>>2537547
>>2537530

samefag

>>2537081

Wow I wonder if your grandfather knew he had a little shit stain of a grandson?

>>2537022

Okay OP, Full System Analysis right here:

Case- Go with Antec 1200, the Thermaltake is good and stuff, but Antec has been around forever and those cases are as solid as a brick shithouse.

HDDs - No point in a fast hard drive. Get enough RAM and just disable your page file, then you won't need to waste money. Seagate ES.2 drives are highly reliable and completely silent. Get 2 750GBers and never look back at the velocicraptors.

Monitor - Unless you can find a 21" or larger CRT used in good condition, try to find an LCD with a refresh rate of 2ms and a dynamic contrast ratio better than 1500:1.

Video card - The 4870x2s are good but "Powercooler" is hardly a name that has been around a long time, look for something by a company like Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, or best choice Sapphire.

PSU - Good choice, although you'll probably never need 1000W, you'd be just fine dropping to 800 or 750 watt models.

RAM - Fine there, cheapest set, and 4GB sticks give you room for upgradeability. If you don't care too much, you could probably save by dropping down to 2GB sticks. DDR3 is pointless as even at 1600 speeds the clock timing rapes it in comparison to DDR2.

Motherboard - Looks good.

Heatsink - Good stuff, but you might want to look at a Scythe or Arctic Cooler model.

Processor - Try to get the best bang for the buck as far as Price/speed. Don't go for the QX series, just overpriced crap that's going to be outdated in 2 years. What you have looks good though.

Afterthoughts - Bundles and discounts are nice, but don't let them steer you into buying a crappy product or getting a worse value for something.

>>2537603

Oh, for the OS, pirate XP Pro x64 and wait to see if Windows 7 is any good.

>>2537547

FUCK OFF CUNT!

>>2537604

Dawn of the dead edition.

Just wait for the GA-EX48-UD5 and Core i7 965 to come out

No, you're doing it very very wrong

Get an hdtv instead of the 30" monitor. 42" or higher 1080p will do.

>>2537603
His RAM is not fine -- getting screwed so badly that it's not even funny. Get 4x2GB sticks for $150, compared to that $460 you have there.

Also, when you look for a monitor you look for panel quality, not the advertised contrast ratio and grey-to-grey time (ie. S-PVA and S-IPS over a cheap TN panel).

Also, I disagree with the HDD analysis. There is a point in getting a faster hard drive, and here's the reason why: the hard drive is the limiting factor on your system, since it's the slowest part of your system. Windows will create virtual memory for you no matter what, so disable your page file all you want. There's no proven difference in performance between leaving your page file on and off. In fact, even someone I know that works for Microsoft says that it's best to leave it be.

>>2537641

Yes, this is true, but in the situtations that you'll need real performance, the HDD is completely out of the picture. Biggest example - Gaming, once you load and are in game, you're done with the HDD for the most part, it's completely loaded into RAM and you're playing it from that, even browsing the internet is loaded and displayed in memory.

There's really no justification for a 10k RPM HDD in a personal computer, we're not running servers.

>>2537673
So you're arguing that the performance difference in small, and to that, I'd actually agree. I'd say to the OP: "it's up to you whether or not you care about that difference... probably not, but it's not that much more expensive anyway". Also, if I were getting a Raptor, it would not be the 300 GB, I'd get the 80 GB or the 150 GB which are cheaper and do fine as a boot/app disk.

get a 50 inch DLP for something like 1.5k

>>2537594
Yes, he did, and he made sure we knew that he knew that. That's why Grandma is sending everybody so much money. Grandpa was a dick to everybody his whole life, and never spent a dime (ever!), so to make up for it she's sending us all her money.

>>2537689

I'm just arguing that there's no point to do anything but have a nice big HDD to cram everything on. The days of system/storage separation are really over. There's no measurable advantage to having anything faster than a 7200RPM hard drive with enough memory.