1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Movies HD 3d Content on my existing LG D2342P Monitor, Some amount of Photoshop, occasional video editing on Sony Vegas 11, Learning Oracle with installation of Oracle 11 and J2EE Development on Eclipse platform... Not serious gamer but wouldn't mind playing a couple of hours since I have spent so much on 3D monitor recently
2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans:35 K (Spent 15K on Monitor already)
3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Have No Idea about it...
4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7 32 or 64 bit
5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: internal 2 TB preferred... may install a 64 GB SSD on first upgrade for OS
6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: LG D2342P-PN Passive 3D Monitor... 23 "... 1920x1080...
7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:Noting much.. all previous machines were laptops...
8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: First week October
9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: First time... I would do it myself...
10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: New Delhi... Either Nehru Place or Flipkart... Nehru Place is just 1 hour away... but I am looking for genuine stuff and most of the shopkeepers there try to sell what they have and not what you want....by giving duff gen
11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I would like to buy another TV tuner alongwith the PC which can be connected to monitor via the D/SUB port(Suggestions for that are welcome as well... (Frontech FT External LCD TV Box JIL 0617 with FM TV Tuner Card) checked this one out from flipkart for 1305 doesn't require PC to be switched on for TV viewing and on D/SUB port it would be independent of PC Operation... I don't want PIP...
Initially checked this configuration
WD Caviar Green 2 TB HDD Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX) 6703
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) PC RAM (CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9) 1738
Intel 3.3 GHz FCLGA1155 Core i3 2120 Processor 7383
Intel DH67CL Motherboard 5607
FRONTECH JIL-1670 Wireless Keyboard 1084
Cooler Master Elite 310 Cabinet (Red) 2026
Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK 430 Watts PSU 2867
BUT went beyond my limits one visit to Nehru Place shopkeeper suggested
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte (some 880 Mobo)
2 TB WD HDD
2 x 4GB RAM
DVD/Writer
ATX Cabinet and PSU
Logitech Wireless KBD/MOUSE Combo for 20 K exactly my budget...
AMD is welcome in case the price differences are so much... but I want a good combination and not that one stupid thing is becoming bottleneck for other things.. and I want system to be future proof for a couple of years....
I have no prior experience in assembling a Desktop... Please help me...
Ans: Movies HD 3d Content on my existing LG D2342P Monitor, Some amount of Photoshop, occasional video editing on Sony Vegas 11, Learning Oracle with installation of Oracle 11 and J2EE Development on Eclipse platform... Not serious gamer but wouldn't mind playing a couple of hours since I have spent so much on 3D monitor recently
2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans:35 K (Spent 15K on Monitor already)
3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: Have No Idea about it...
4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7 32 or 64 bit
5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: internal 2 TB preferred... may install a 64 GB SSD on first upgrade for OS
6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: LG D2342P-PN Passive 3D Monitor... 23 "... 1920x1080...
7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:Noting much.. all previous machines were laptops...
8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: First week October
9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: First time... I would do it myself...
10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: New Delhi... Either Nehru Place or Flipkart... Nehru Place is just 1 hour away... but I am looking for genuine stuff and most of the shopkeepers there try to sell what they have and not what you want....by giving duff gen
11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: I would like to buy another TV tuner alongwith the PC which can be connected to monitor via the D/SUB port(Suggestions for that are welcome as well... (Frontech FT External LCD TV Box JIL 0617 with FM TV Tuner Card) checked this one out from flipkart for 1305 doesn't require PC to be switched on for TV viewing and on D/SUB port it would be independent of PC Operation... I don't want PIP...
Initially checked this configuration
WD Caviar Green 2 TB HDD Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX) 6703
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) PC RAM (CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9) 1738
Intel 3.3 GHz FCLGA1155 Core i3 2120 Processor 7383
Intel DH67CL Motherboard 5607
FRONTECH JIL-1670 Wireless Keyboard 1084
Cooler Master Elite 310 Cabinet (Red) 2026
Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK 430 Watts PSU 2867
BUT went beyond my limits one visit to Nehru Place shopkeeper suggested
AMD FX4100
Gigabyte (some 880 Mobo)
2 TB WD HDD
2 x 4GB RAM
DVD/Writer
ATX Cabinet and PSU
Logitech Wireless KBD/MOUSE Combo for 20 K exactly my budget...
AMD is welcome in case the price differences are so much... but I want a good combination and not that one stupid thing is becoming bottleneck for other things.. and I want system to be future proof for a couple of years....
I have no prior experience in assembling a Desktop... Please help me...