So, my dad is friends with a guy who was in the Navy, and basically now has lung cancer because of the asbestos they had on the old naval ships. Long story short, he has a considerable chunk of change coming his way from a settlement (but is basically told he has few years to live). Since I'm sitting around with very little to do these days since my car crash and build an occasional computer, and he's deciding to put me to work.
The guy is a big farmville fan. Other than that I don't see him busting out BF3 on max settings, but he wants a rig that does everything in a snap. I built him a rig a year ago that was pretty decent, and he wants something even more beefy! The idea is to do this without going all freaking top of the line fugly case mods and water cooled rigs. It's for an old guy who views that frill as useless (I do too to be honest. lol)
Needless to say, I'm an AMD kind of guy because I'm a poor college student and shoot for price/performance like noone's business. Unfortunately right now, since he wants something balls to the wall I'm looking around at Intel's i7 Sandy bridge series. I'm a bit hazy on the intricacies with Intel, so any decent advice would be appreciated.
Rig so far:
- Monitor/keyboard/mouse - will be recycled from past rigs
- Win 7 Pro (or Ultimate)
- SSD's, not sure how many or how big yet.
- Looking at setting him up with an AMD HD6970 and relevant power supply once I nail down the stuff below.
Would this CPU/MOBO/Memory combination work? I can't really find anything saying what specific ram the CPU will work with... Not sure if it matters, but when I was building my last AMD rig it was always labeled clearly what it was compatible with. Once this stuff gets nailed down I'll start moving onto the other parts...
Again, thanks for any relevant help I feel like such an Intel noobie Edited by Herpes on 17-12-2011 17:42
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well based on what you are looking for, you have picked the right stuff and your right the sandy bridge is much better. ALL specs you have look great you shouldnt have any problems. Just please dont forget to get a nice beefy Power supply! you never now what you might add on!
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I feel like such an Intel noobie 
