Originally posted by CharLac Just got this for my daughter for Christmas....FX504G...ys it's a gaming laptop, but she does not game. Charlie is crazy you say? Perhaps, but she is in an arts program and will most certainly be using graphically intensive programs to draw/sculpt/post process and this system has a great price per performance price point.
I just went back and looked at my last build, from January 2017.
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver Ceramique 2 Tri-Linear 2.7g Thermal Paste ($3.44 @ OutletPC) Comes with CPU fan
Motherboard: Asus X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LED 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
Storage: Sandisk X400 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 OEM 64-bit
Case Fan: Enermax UCTVS12P-R 76.0 CFM 120mm Fan
Case Fan: Enermax UCTVS12P-R 76.0 CFM 120mm Fan
CPU B&H $393.89
CPU Cooler New Egg $34.99 + $10 Mail In Rebate
Motherboard Amazon $229.98
Memory Jet $454.97 + $29.57 “Estimated” Sales Tax
SSD B&H $265.79
Hard Drive Outlet PC $49.78
Hard Drive Outlet PC $49.78
Video Card Outlet PC $419.88
Case New Egg $69.99/$59.99 + $10 Mail In Rebate
Power Supply Amazon $69.99
Optical Drive Outlet PC $18.88 + $7.95 Shipping
Operating System New Egg $139.99
Case Fan New Egg $14.99
Case Fan New Egg $14.99
Totals $2217.89
Less Rebates $20 $2197.89
Add Shipping $7.95 $2205.84
Add “Sales Tax” $29.57 $2235.41
I used PC Part Picker to put it together. When I actually ordered everything some of the prices had changed, and one item (CPU cooler) wound up being not available so I had to find an alternate.
Quite a bit more than I remember spending, but there it is.
And I already had two monitors, a mouse and keyboard.
Last spring I replaced the two disc drives with a set of three 2TB drives in RAID.