As much as I'd love a PC 350, it's rather more expensive. If people have suggestions, it'd be awesome if they were similarly priced because I'm working on a budget.
Only thing I would change is your cpu and graphics card. But you won't. I can link you to a better cpu if you'd like but it's amd. Might be a bit too good for you.
AMD mobos are overall cheaper than Intel, so if you find about equal cpu:s from both go AMD. Dunno at all what the situation is now. I think intel was releasing some new models (WITH KILLSWITCH).
The computer you posted tweadle is probably the best you can buy now for that price.
There's actually not much of discussion in this. Maybe a less horrible case but that's it. I have those same memories and running at 1600Mhz on stock they're at ambient temperature, they don't heat a single bit.
The difference isn't all that much for the asking price. And as for the card just get the next model up, not much price difference. I chose that one for price vs performance, that's the whole point. If you honestly just want to throw money at the best numbers you can see then by all means go intel and nvidia. The benchmarks clearly show a slightly better result but you don't really get that much more performance for the investment.
In regards to the mouse, all i can say about is most of mx518 products are defect by freezing frequently. So, the laser in the mouse tends to act very strange by not responding. I've had and heard many stories about mx518 that tends to freeze up while gaming. I recommend you to reconsider this choice.
i5-2500k is great. Great value for money and good OC'ing possibilities.
I've got like 3 MX518's and 1 MX510's ordered from different shops around Europe and each of them has broken up by (random freezing). Apparently you could fix that by cutting the cable out and reconnecting the cords but I haven't tried that.
I got Razer Deathadder 3500DPI now and its great. Doesn't wear much, doesn't break up and has great drivers.
I'm currently using a mx518 that I fixed by opening it up and getting all techie on it's ass so i'm not too concerned. If you want to send me yours jiriki, i'd be happy to take them ;).
Also considering the Coolermaster Inferno. I like the idea of lots of buttonsssss:
i5-2500k 230e
Asus P8P67 160e (watch out, loads of problems with default bios)
Palit GTX570 350e
4x2GB DDR3 1333Mhz ~100e
Corsair TX750W 120e
Some Bluray drive
- Noctua NH-U12P as cooler from previous CPU
- Previous Samsung's 2233RZ as a monitor.
- Previous Qck+ Steelseries + Deathadder work just fine
- Some SATAII drives for space.
- Antec Three Hundred as case
Radeon's are probably better for NS2 (lower cores) and Nvidia's better for old OpenGL games like NS1. Radeon's have more raw rendering power (faster cores) but Nvidia's have much more shader calculating power (which NS2 does not use atm. afaik). And you can hack 6970 from 6950.
