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meh don't have time to play shopping. For your needs you can easily fill out the list for around $1200-1500 and probably use the left over for big monitors.

I'm currently am running an older Quad core on a decent board with 16 gig ram (It can hold 32). On my next upgrade I want to replace the CPU and maybe the board if its not compatible though I'm rather fond of it.

I've got 2 250 gig drives and a terrabyte drive that is dedicated to my games (Because steam doesn't let you spread them out). I would like to replace one of the drives with a SSD and put the OS on it as I hear those handle smoke better.

My GPU I think is currently a 2 gig.

And I'm running a 24" and 19" monitor. I would like to upgrade both to 30's but it's not a necessity.....yet.

I used to have to have all these specs memorized but now it's just whatever and stuff. This pc started as a off the shelf model and each year at tax season I like to go out and upgrade something on it so it's been pretty good about being up to speed with midrange junk as it easily meets or exceeds most spec requirements.

I have a pair of striped 120 GB SSDs, and they are BLAZING fast. No more seeking on random read/writes

Sure the speed will be a bonus but my main issue is that when I'm sitting at the pc with an eyepatch on, a parakeet on my shoulder, and my pipe tobacco in my mouth, the smoke, from what I've been told, gets inside of the HD (which I thought was supposed to be airtight) and creates a thin layer of muck that the laser can't read. At least that's what I was informed when my first drive crapped out and started causing blue screens.

Oh... I forgot... u like it one headed or triple monitor monster?

Ok, I will be engaging in big fleet battles. Monitor/mouse/keyboard are all not included.
I will only be using a single EVE client on said computer, other clients can run on my current comps (I have a lot :/)
I will be living in null, experiencing large blobs etc.
I don't want to pay 1000 extra for flashy lights and an alien decal on it, unless the hardware inside is worth it.
If I must up my budget then I can't get it this week and have to wait til next so no biggie, lets up it to $4000 for the "tower"

again that being said I am just playing 1 client, with probability of large scale battles. I don't want to lag, my net can handle it.
This is just for the tower and stuff inside, not the monitors. I have more than enough monitors because I don't watch TV I just use it currently for my monitor.

cool. ty.
I'll just print this comment out and take it to best buy lol.

"I need these pleze"

I'll check that out too. I just literally have no memory of computers since I gave up a long time ago. I bought a Dell desktop for like $1000 then gutted it and rebuilt it, then it got stolen like 2m onths after and so I gave up lol. Only thing I mess with lately is RAM because every stock computer comes with **** ram.

but see, I don't even know what those things are :P
and thus far haven't affected me,
My lil laptop plays EVE with all settings on half/enabled

I guess its time to do my research instead of browse these forums all day at work

Crap ventilation means extra heat which means extra power use and increased chance for something to croak sooner than it should.
Junk PSU means either it goes down in provided power much faster with age leading to eventual "brownouts" when you run something at full throttle, or highly susceptible to power fluctuations which could fry something inside your machine in a worst case scenario (laptops seldom have that problem), or at the very least running up your power bill more than necessary.
Mediocre mobo means less room for future improvement (SATA/USB/RAM/PCI-E slots), poor on-board audio, easily damaged/worn capacitors, etc.



No idea where exactly you're looking there, but you can select each individual component, it comes to your house in its producer's package, and you unbox and assemble everything yourself.
You should be looking at components ( "computer hardware") not ready-built systems ("PCs & laptops").

You'll get a lot of preferences from various people, but for me it's :
- Gigabyte NVIDIAs for GPU (I like the Gigabyte cooling system, and I prefer NVIDIA to ATI, but not by much),
- ASRock for mobo (somewhat cheaper but generally quality build), but only slightly recommended
- Western Digital for HDD (not very attached to it, anything else is fine too),
- Intel for SSD (mostly due to reliability, they have their own semiconductor foundry and they generally keep the best of the batches for their own SSDs and sell the rest, and they're not very fast nor very cheap), you might want to think twice before you go with an OCZ SSD though (they might be fast and attractively priced for their performance, but they also allegedly have the highest failure rates of all SSDs, could be because they're also amongst the most popular so people with less experience end up using them improperly, but maybe better safe than sorry?)
- Corsair builder/gamer series or OCZ for the PSU, but there are others with decent PSUs around (a bit more expensive usually though)
- no particular strong preference for RAM (but slight advantage to either Geil or Corsair, very slight),
- and there's a huge host of cases to pick from (Cooler Master HAF series is generally quite nice, but sometimes a bit expewnsive, or maybe Lian-Li if you like a more rugged build, but others are quite nice too).

Most of those are more like guidelines or personal preferences than strong suggestions though.
You might want to look at the buyer feedback on all components first anyway, and also maybe research reviews on independent sites for them (google's quite helpful to let you find enough of those)

NOTE: you can't use dual SSDs in raid0 mode at the same time as the modified-raid0-SSD-caching feature of ivybridge/z77 (it's either one or the other, not both), but if you have two larger SSDs you don't really need SSD caching of the slower large drive anyway (everything you really need to be read fast will go directly on the SSDs anyway since you'll have plenty of space there).