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EVGA are nice cards, especially the AR parts with the lifetime warranty. The card I ordered for my new build is this MSI, it's factory overclocked and has a nicer HSF than the EVGA one.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=msi%20gtx560

I've looked at that MSI card as well, since it's been reviewed multiple places, though its 3-year warranty is making me look at the EVGA cards due to their lifetime warranty. PNY is another vendor with lifetime warranty (upon registration).

That, and I need to make sure it's a 9" card for my SFF enclosure, since I think I'm a little lighter on power usage with the components in my system:
65W Q9550S
Two Scorpio Black 500GB HDDs (2W x 2)
Sony-Optiarc DVD+/-RW drive (18W)

Most of the vendors have been quoting out 450 - 500W PSUs for GTX 560 cards, and since my 450W PSU has a 36A 12V rail, I should be good.

So Micro Center has the 950 and the 2600k on sale. I'm reading for rendering and Photoshop the 2600 is ideal, but the recall worries me. Is there a way to find out of a chip was made pre January 9 on the box? Or would I have to do more to find out?

Originally Posted by basilofbkrst So Micro Center has the 950 and the 2600k on sale. I'm reading for rendering and Photoshop the 2600 is ideal, but the recall worries me. Is there a way to find out of a chip was made pre January 9 on the box? Or would I have to do more to find out?

It's not the chip, it's the chipset. The only part affected is the SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) ports on the board.

EDIT - corrected an error

Originally Posted by MSI Magus http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...pr_product_top Was thinking of that one.

im sure thatd be fine. do a little shopping around and check ads from places like best buy and frys and microcenter. you can probably get one for a bit cheaper if you can hold off a little bit and shop around.

Originally Posted by ZForce915 It's not the chip, it's the chipset. The only part affected is the SATA 3.0 ports on the board.

Oohhh, thanks for clearing that.

I'll head in tomorrow to get one. Too much damn ice on the road today.

EDIT: For another dunce moment, what is the difference between the mobo needed for an i7 950 VS the 2600?

I was looking at getting:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-13131634-L07C

But not sure which chip it matches up to, or both.

Originally Posted by basilofbkrst Oohhh, thanks for clearing that. I'll head in tomorrow to get one. Too much damn ice on the road today. EDIT: For another dunce moment, what is the difference between the mobo needed for an i7 950 VS the 2600? I was looking at getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-13131634-L07C But not sure which chip it matches up to, or both.

The information is pretty new, I wouldn't call this common knowledge just yet

the i7 SandyBridge chips use the LGA 1155 chipset, the i7 900 series uses LGA 1366.

Originally Posted by ZForce915 It's not the chip, it's the chipset. The only part affected is the SATA 3.0 ports on the board.

Actually, its the SATA 2.0(3Gb/s) ports that are affected. The SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) ports don't suffer from the problem.

does the 1156 mobo work the same as a 1055? newegg has one 1055 and 120 of the 1056

No it doesn't. They're not going to be compatible with the same processors. You can only use the 1155 boards for the new Sandy Bridge i5s and i7s and with the recall its going to be a few weeks at least before any new ones are available. The one on Newegg looks like an open box item and is likely a mistake that will be pulled soon.

Now I'm getting it. This their will be a combo deal when the new boards get back out? Or Should I just buy the processor and wait to find a board separate?

There should be plenty of combo deals when the boards start shipping again. From the looks of things, most places are going to just stop selling the processors too while this whole chipset thing gets sorted out, so you're probably going to be stuck waiting anyway.

I'll check back with stores near me soon to their status on sets. This gives me an excuse to hold out on buying other parts and hope a sale hits those.

I plan on building a PC with these parts. Can someone take a glance and make sure I won't run into any compatibility issues?

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103808

ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157176

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231428

MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5/OC GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127512

HEC Blitz Black Steel Edition ATX Mid Tower Computer Chassis Gaming Case w/ Front Blue LED 120mm Fan & Top 120mm Fan
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811121096

Antec NEO ECO 620C 620W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371031

Originally Posted by Mid Boss Actually, its the SATA 2.0(3Gb/s) ports that are affected. The SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) ports don't suffer from the problem.

Yeah, that's what I meant. My mistake.

So I was discussing with a friend and fellow CAG AwRy the fact that my wife getting a large bonus from work, and tax returns coming in is making it hard not to buy my new PC now vs in another few months as planned. While having the discussion he became convinced I do not need a new PC, I just need to upgrade this one. I wanted to see what you guys here think. Basically id need a new hard drive, a new graphics card and a new CPU...but I imagine upgrading those three I would almost def need a new power supply. To me at that point it seems like you might as well just build a new freaking PC. Especially considering that the upgrades might last you a few months, but then with the PC being 6 years old at that point it would probably just require buying a new PC or a massive upgrade again.

Little info I am running
Intel Core 2 CPU 6320 and its 1.86 GHZ
GeForce 9500 GT

he recommended
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133326
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115036

I am just looking at it in the sense of upgrading those two alone will cost me $400. My hard drive is 6ish years old at this point so besides the fact that it is only 300 gigs and I NEED more space there is also that just the speed of something that old is horrid. Add in a new power supply to help power all this and you are at around $550 just to upgrade. I am worried about how all this will fit in my casing too ;( Anyways do you guys still think with it being that costly to upgrade its worth it? Or just keep trying to wait the 6 months or so and just buy a new PC?

If you're willing to spend $200 just for cpu upgrade I'd go this way first new HD quad core cpu and new case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboB...bles-_-na-_-na

Originally Posted by MSI Magus So I was discussing with a friend and fellow CAG AwRy the fact that my wife getting a large bonus from work, and tax returns coming in is making it hard not to buy my new PC now vs in another few months as planned. While having the discussion he became convinced I do not need a new PC, I just need to upgrade this one. I wanted to see what you guys here think. Basically id need a new hard drive, a new graphics card and a new CPU...but I imagine upgrading those three I would almost def need a new power supply. To me at that point it seems like you might as well just build a new freaking PC. Especially considering that the upgrades might last you a few months, but then with the PC being 6 years old at that point it would probably just require buying a new PC or a massive upgrade again. Little info I am running Intel Core 2 CPU 6320 and its 1.86 GHZ GeForce 9500 GT he recommended http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133326 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115036 I am just looking at it in the sense of upgrading those two alone will cost me $400. My hard drive is 6ish years old at this point so besides the fact that it is only 300 gigs and I NEED more space there is also that just the speed of something that old is horrid. Add in a new power supply to help power all this and you are at around $550 just to upgrade. I am worried about how all this will fit in my casing too ;( Anyways do you guys still think with it being that costly to upgrade its worth it? Or just keep trying to wait the 6 months or so and just buy a new PC?

whats your PSU right now?

those are pretty big upgrades as far as the CPU and GPU go. by that i mean, you should be able to get a pretty decent upgrade for a lot less if you buy the right stuff.

i guess the main question would be, what do you want to do with this computer after the upgrade? do you want to be able to play crisis 2 smoothly? or are you just looking for a faster computer for office work, web surfing and the occasional game of left 4 dead and world of warcraft?

first off, what type of MOBO do you have? that should play a big factor on what CPU you go with.

as for the HDD, you can get http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148433 which is $55 after coupon. 1TB should be plenty of space.

Just ordered the EVGA SuperClocked 01G-P3-1563-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti from Amazon since it finally dropped down in price to match NewEgg (I had a bunch of Amazon credit saved up for a new video card).

Probably won't show up for a few weeks, since it was backordered when I ordered it. Seems like a good choice since it's lifeftime warrantied, plus comes with a 900MHz factory OC.

Looking for some advice please...

Want to build a cheap (~$500) gaming rig based around this barebones kit from Tigerdirect: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=7220551

Could anyone recommend a video card that would work well with the above?

I don't need anything beastly, just enough to make previous year's games (L4D2, TF2) run smooth and shiny at 1680x1050.

I've read "a very powerful video card will be useless in a low-end Gaming PC, you want to balance the components to avoid having your CPU bottleneck your video card", but I can't interpret the info I look at well enough to determine where the bottleneck would be.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated; thanks!