[dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Bill Patten bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Mon Jun 20 12:11:00 CDT 2011


Hi Rocky,

Your son might be interested in this ZDNet article.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/building-a-barebones-budget-gaming-pc-for-under-550/13363?tag=nl.e539

Bill

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From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:21 AM
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
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Cc: <heedleblambeedle at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Thanks - will forward

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:10 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Hi Rocky:

If he does not want the drive but the new installation will be too time
consuming, he can always image the old drive to the new computer drive. It
is not guaranteed that the process will work but in the cases I have done
this; there is a 90 percent conversion rate. The newer OSs are very
flexible.

If he wishes to follow this method simply add his old drive in the computer
and set it to the boot drive and when the system has been configured and his
old drive boot up, he can then export the revised boot drive image to other
drive and switch the new drive to the boot drive.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:29 AM
To: List; 'Off Topic'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

After a trip to Fry's Noah has spec'd a new comp to build.  Any advice here?
He's going to take the HD from his current box (7200rpm) and put it in the
new box.

He's doing some on-line gaming so the graphics card is important.

(Myself - I think I'm going with the Dell i7 - ~$1000 but maybe a deal will
pop up in the next couple days)

TIA

Rocky


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From: Noah Sutton-Smolin [mailto:heedleblambeedle at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:35 AM
To: Rocky Smolin
Subject: Document


Totals to $789 with the ram I want, but if I can get DDR5 10600 then I'd
rather go for that. If so, the total will likely be $809-$819

Case: CM HAF 912 ($60)

Motherboard: GA-Z86MA-D2H-B3
(http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3855#ov) ($99)

Processor: Core i7 Gen II, quad core (LGA1155) ($300)

Graphics card: GTX 560 Ti - 500W ($230)

Power supply: 600W (missing model) ($50)

8GB RAM: http://www.frys.com/product/6522023 (hopefully) ($50)



Total: $789


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