Is this a good deal?

Post by **Magus** » November 27th, 2011, 2:35 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBund ... mbo.769166

I was looking at that case and PSU anyways... Is that a good looking combo?

Post by **madmattd** » November 27th, 2011, 3:09 pm

Case and PSU are fine, CPU is decent but with the Intel i5-2500k being on sale at the same price point lately, the Intel would be a better deal. MicroATX board which is fine if you don't think you'll ever SLI/XFire, nothing wrong with it though. RAM is nothing special, but nothing awful. Slow hard drive, but for data drive it's fine.

The major red flag for me would be that SSD. That's a previous-generation SSD (which is fine), but it's also a drive of mixed reputation based on a very temperamental and glitchy controller (Sandforce). It might work fine, it might be DOA, or it might work fine for 3 months and then randomly crap out (which happens a LOT with OCZ and really any drive based on Sandforce).

Overall a decent combo but nothing stellar. Reasonable price I suppose.

Post by **Armisael** » November 28th, 2011, 12:18 am

You can probably do better than that by finding combos that just have two items. You get more freedom with your parts, and 3 or 4 pairs with $10-$15 combos will come out to give you more or less the same combo discount.

Post by **Magus** » November 28th, 2011, 12:03 pm

Alright, thanks guys

Post by **madmattd** » November 28th, 2011, 3:38 pm

Armisael wrote:You can probably do better than that by finding combos that just have two items. You get more freedom with your parts, and 3 or 4 pairs with $10-$15 combos will come out to give you more or less the same combo discount.

Good point Armisael.

Post by **Mullet** » November 28th, 2011, 5:24 pm

Just buy Matt's old system, when he upgrades.

Post by **Magus** » November 28th, 2011, 6:06 pm

See, I would but I'm not sure when he's looking at upgrading or if he's willing to wipe everything for me

Post by **TheKeef** » November 28th, 2011, 8:26 pm

Magus wrote:See, I would but I'm not sure when he's looking at upgrading or if he's willing to wipe everything for me

Wipe/resinstall is so very basic you wont have much trouble.

Post by **madmattd** » November 28th, 2011, 10:38 pm

Wipe is easy. Click a few buttons and poof!

My system is just a bit too far removed from modern for me to recommend for gaming. It's still solid, but your money would be better spent on something more recent (as in possibly upgradable down the road, my socket is long discontinued). Also, I don't know how soon you are looking to purchase, but I'm a minimum of 6 months from doing my new build. I'm waiting to see how Ivy Bridge ends up looking (release in early April it appears) and if it looks good, I'm still going to wait for the initial kinks to be worked out of the completely new manufacturing process.

Post by **Magus** » November 28th, 2011, 11:10 pm

Yeah I'm looking at buying in like, the next month

Post by **Mullet** » November 29th, 2011, 10:33 am

What is your budget?

Post by **Magus** » November 29th, 2011, 12:06 pm

1000.

I have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and I think a copy of windows to use.

Post by **Mullet** » November 29th, 2011, 1:58 pm

This is really a pretty good combo. All you need to add is a $20 DVD burner.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBund ... mbo.722615

Save $74.94 when purchased together
Combined Total: $1,079.93
Combo Discounts: -$74.94
Combo Price: $1,004.99
1x COOLER MASTER RC-692-KKN2 CM690 II Advanced Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case (Model:RC-692-KKN2 Advanced)

$89.99
1x ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS (Model:P8P67 DELUXE (REV3))

$214.99
1x ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card (Model:ENGTX560 TI DCII/2DI)

$244.99
1x CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply (Model:CMPSU-750TXV2)

$104.99
1x Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000 BX80623I52500K (Model:BX80623I52500K)

$224.99
1x CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 (Model:CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)

$49.99
1x Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (Model:ST31000524AS)

$149.99

Post by **madmattd** » November 29th, 2011, 3:50 pm

Mullet's combo there is a ridiculous build. It will run circles around what you were looking at earlier Magus, and includes a very good GPU and CPU. Basically for the same price too since your combo didn't have a GPU. Also all top-line brands on every component, rare to see in Newegg's combos.

The CPU and GPU are out of stock at the moment, Newegg just had a sale on the 2500K over the weekend, but my guess is things will be back in stock in the next few days.

Also has a $10 rebate on the PSU and $20 on the GPU.

You might find similar components over several 2-3 piece combo deals that might net you a case you like better (although that one looks pretty solid) or stuff like that. Perhaps even a few bucks less. But the basic build of i5-2500K CPU, 560TI GPU, 2x4GB 1600MHz RAM, 750W PSU will give you great performance and room for the future (ie you can SLI on that PSU no sweat, move it to a new build, or whatever).

Post by **Magus** » November 29th, 2011, 4:57 pm

My only worry with stuff being out of stock is by the time stuff comes back in stock, might the combo be gone?

Also, all I need to add to that is a dvd/cd drive, yeah?

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