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Originally Posted by strych9
I was going to build another everyday PC, and wanted a 4th-gen i7. I was going to build one spec'd out with an i7-4770 and 16GB RAM. Cost would have been around $1200. Instead I bought an HP Envy Phoenix for $1049 with the same specs as what I planned to build. I retro-fitted an HP CPU liquid cooling system from a previous generation Phoenix for $70. This machine flies! The only weak spot is the video card, which is a GeForce GTX 645. It's still pretty good. The mobo is an MSI board with Intel Z87 chipset. It's a great setup, and would be good for most gamers on a budget.
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What's the power supply? I'm sorta itching for a PC that will do a three monitor setup for flight sims now and that setup seems good for upgrade.
Dammit, I never should have looked at PCs. I've practically convinced myself I can part with 2 grand. If I wasn't part Scottish I'd have spent the $ but I'm too cheap
My own PC is limping along a bit better. Took off the heatsink and fan from the CPU, cleaned everything, put a
little new thermal paste on, and I ran a pretty graphics intensive game for two hours last night. No crash and no laggy menus like previous. But I'm still hearing the fans crank up to high ALL the time and I saw a GPU spike to 83*C...but no power down. 181*F can't be good