bhanja_Trinanjan
Broken In
Hello,
My four years old Core 2 Duo is getting a little long in the tooth.
I am planning a major upgrade to a Core i5 based rig.
A blueprint of the specifications:
2nd generation Core i5 (i5-2500K)
Z68 chipset based motherboard (Asus / MSI / Gigabyte)
8 / 16 GB dual channel Corsair Dominator dual channel kit
A good performance SSD to complement my main Hard Drive
A Barracuda XT 2TB
A high-end cabinet (Corsair Obsidian / Antec P193... need more choices here)
Corsair AX850 Power Supply
Single Radeon HD6970 / Geforce GTX 580/570
A really nice S-IPS monitor, is the Dell U2311H a good choice?
Windows 7 64bit
My questions:
1. Which is the best Z68 board out there? Has the Z68 hit retail in India?
2. Are online stores like TechShop.in - Buy Tech Online Now!!! and Theitdepot - India's First IT Online Shopping Store reliable?
3. Is the OCZ Vertex 3 available in India? Can anybody suggest better alternatives?
4. Which is the best Nvidia graphics card vendor? Which GTX 580 should I buy? If I go for Radeon, I will get a Powercolor.
5. Which premium cabinet should I go for? Some of the tool-less cabinets cannot support heavy dual slot graphics cards well. My own experience tells me that the clips often cannot support the weight of a heavy graphics card, which sags under gravity, putting strain on the slots. I like the provision for screws here.
6. Is that 850W Corsair power supply enough? I think so, as I have a single GPU.
7. Can anyone offer further choices for S-IPS displays? I am tired of TN + Film.
Thanks,
Trinanjan.
My four years old Core 2 Duo is getting a little long in the tooth.
I am planning a major upgrade to a Core i5 based rig.
A blueprint of the specifications:
2nd generation Core i5 (i5-2500K)
Z68 chipset based motherboard (Asus / MSI / Gigabyte)
8 / 16 GB dual channel Corsair Dominator dual channel kit
A good performance SSD to complement my main Hard Drive
A Barracuda XT 2TB
A high-end cabinet (Corsair Obsidian / Antec P193... need more choices here)
Corsair AX850 Power Supply
Single Radeon HD6970 / Geforce GTX 580/570
A really nice S-IPS monitor, is the Dell U2311H a good choice?
Windows 7 64bit
My questions:
1. Which is the best Z68 board out there? Has the Z68 hit retail in India?
2. Are online stores like TechShop.in - Buy Tech Online Now!!! and Theitdepot - India's First IT Online Shopping Store reliable?
3. Is the OCZ Vertex 3 available in India? Can anybody suggest better alternatives?
4. Which is the best Nvidia graphics card vendor? Which GTX 580 should I buy? If I go for Radeon, I will get a Powercolor.
5. Which premium cabinet should I go for? Some of the tool-less cabinets cannot support heavy dual slot graphics cards well. My own experience tells me that the clips often cannot support the weight of a heavy graphics card, which sags under gravity, putting strain on the slots. I like the provision for screws here.
6. Is that 850W Corsair power supply enough? I think so, as I have a single GPU.
7. Can anyone offer further choices for S-IPS displays? I am tired of TN + Film.
Thanks,
Trinanjan.