MSI is about £60 more than what I got so quite happy now. Cheers buddy for the feedback much appreciated. I suck at these kind of things when there is so much variety.
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MSI is about £60 more than what I got so quite happy now. Cheers buddy for the feedback much appreciated. I suck at these kind of things when there is so much variety.
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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_770_sli_review,1.html
According to Guru3d 770 sli noise and temperature levels are adequate. This test is with reference cards as well. With the right case I could get away with the issue. I'll be getting the corsair air 540 which should have a pretty good airflow.
Only problem I can see right now would be micro-stuttering and future game support.
According to Guru3d 770 sli noise and temperature levels are adequate. This test is with reference cards as well. With the right case I could get away with the issue. I'll be getting the corsair air 540 which should have a pretty good airflow.
Only problem I can see right now would be micro-stuttering and future game support.
I was on 320.49. I'm under the impression that it hasn't been fixed since then. I guess I'll find out if that was the issue if my system freezes again sometime today.
670 is a great price here in the UK, can't beat picking one of those up atm.
Is the G45 not £115-120?
Thanks again for all the help! Probably my last post on this as I'm pulling the trigger in about 2 hours. I'm only 100 over what I intended. Any last thoughts/comments?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($58.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($176.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($673.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Titanium Grey) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic M12II 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1599.39
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-02 15:38 EDT-0400)
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($58.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($176.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card ($673.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Titanium Grey) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic M12II 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1599.39
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
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That's alright. I'm gonna stick with newegg for everything as they've always provided great service, and I'm lazy.
I do appreciate the suggestion though.
Oh so we can make changes? What else isn't dispatched?
Get a Hyper 212 EVO and are those low profile RAM?
840 is fine, pretty similar to the EVO. The EVO has some improved write stuff that I am not too well read up on. $7 more than 840 at Newegg thought it might be worth a look at.
All of it so far
I don't think it's low profile
What is your budget? Are you looking to emulate?
May emulate in the future, budget so far has been £720 so don't really want to move on that too much with the PS4 and Xbox One round the corner.
No HDD in your build?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£22.85 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£116.06 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£70.80 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix Shinobi ATX Mid Tower Case (£49.90 @ Amazon UK)
Other: G.Skill 8GB (2x 4GB) Dual Channel Ares Series Memory Kit (DDR3 1333, 9-9-9-24, 1.5v, Intel XMP Extreme Memory Profile Ready) (£39.99)
Other: Be Quiet Pure Power L8 530W PSU (£65.40)
Other: Intel Core i5 4670K Quad Core Retail CPU (Socket 1150, 3.40GHz, 6MB, Haswell, 84W, Intel Graphics, BX80646I74770, 4th Generation Intel Core, Turbo Boost Technology 2.0) (£183.46)
Other: MSI GTX670 2GB Twin Frozr Power Edition Overclocked NVidia PCIe Graphics Card plus free Batman and Splinter Cell (£179.60)
Total: £728.06
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-09-02 21:30 BST+0100)
What's a fair selling price for my ancient gaming PC? It's in perfect working order, just extremely dated.
-Antec 900 Gaming Case
-Antec NeoPower 550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
-EVGA 8800 GT
-Thermaltake DuOrb GPU Cooler
-GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor Model (OC'd to 3.2 GHz)
-Tuniq Tower 120
-G.SKILL 8GB (4x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
-Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS -500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
-SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B
-Windows 8 Pro
-Antec 900 Gaming Case
-Antec NeoPower 550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
-EVGA 8800 GT
-Thermaltake DuOrb GPU Cooler
-GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor Model (OC'd to 3.2 GHz)
-Tuniq Tower 120
-G.SKILL 8GB (4x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
-Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS -500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
-SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B
-Windows 8 Pro
Put rough prices next to all the things. Figure about 200-250 all together.
Already got a 1tb HDD knocking around somewhere that will do for now. Cheers for the suggestions will look into it. That's the exact 670 I have ordered haha great minds think alike!
Hard to beat it. Gigabyte offer a better UK RMA service but they want another £20 for it
Okay guys, here is mine:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K
GPU: MSI N770 Twinfrozr 2GD5/OC, 2GB GDDR5
Mainboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1 (heard it's extremely quiet)
Storage: Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s
Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB, SATA 6Gb/s
Power-Supply: 450 Watt be quiet! Straight Power E9
Memory: G.Skill DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
Drive: LiteOn iHAS124-04
Tower: FRACTAL DESIGN Define XL R2 Titanium Grey
What do you say?
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K
GPU: MSI N770 Twinfrozr 2GD5/OC, 2GB GDDR5
Mainboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1 (heard it's extremely quiet)
Storage: Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s
Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB, SATA 6Gb/s
Power-Supply: 450 Watt be quiet! Straight Power E9
Memory: G.Skill DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
Drive: LiteOn iHAS124-04
Tower: FRACTAL DESIGN Define XL R2 Titanium Grey
What do you say?
Pretty huge case that, any reason for it?
Define XL is complete overkill. Thing is really big. Get a Define R4 or Arc Midi R2.
Yeah, it thought....
1. I want it to be really silent (heard this one here is really good for it)
2. I want space in my tower/case (if I have to do stuff inside it, I want space)
3. It looks cool
Fair enough. R4 looks exactly the same and is super silent too, without being a giant if you wanted to go that route. If not make sure the cables on that PSU is long enough to be routed around the back of that case. CPU power may need extension.Yeah, it thought....
1. I want it to be really silent (heard this one here is really good for it)
2. I want space in my tower/case (if I have to do stuff inside it, I want space)
3. It looks cool
Yeah, it thought....
1. I want it to be really silent (heard this one here is really good for it)
2. I want space in my tower/case (if I have to do stuff inside it, I want space)
3. It looks cool
Yeah just get the R4.
Alright, guys
Updated:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K
GPU: MSI N770 Twinfrozr 2GD5/OC, 2GB GDDR5
Mainboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1 (heard it's extremely quiet)
Storage: Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s
Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB, SATA 6Gb/s
Power-Supply: 450 Watt be quiet! Straight Power E9
Memory: G.Skill DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
Drive: LiteOn iHAS124-04
Tower: FRACTAL DESIGN Define R4 Titanium Grey
I guess 450W for the power-supply is enough, right?
So I have a somewhat silly/stupid question, as late as the first 2013 I need a new pc thread the op had listed a custom build site for us buyers avadirect I was wondering if anyone knows why it is no longer listed. The site seems to be really legit so I had a feeling the demand for a us custom build site is just not high enough for it to be listed or it was felt the price was not worth it. Does anybody know for sure , thanks in advance.
Alright, guys
Updated:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K
GPU: MSI N770 Twinfrozr 2GD5/OC, 2GB GDDR5
Mainboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1 (heard it's extremely quiet)
Storage: Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s
Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB, SATA 6Gb/s
Power-Supply: 450 Watt be quiet! Straight Power E9
Memory: G.Skill DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit
Drive: LiteOn iHAS124-04
Tower: FRACTAL DESIGN Define R4 Titanium Grey
I guess 450W for the power-supply is enough, right?
It would be but I'd be more comfortable at ~550w
I recently built two identical PCs based on recommendations in this thread. They are basically hybrids between the standard and excellent in the OP with an i5, SSD main drive, and my existing video cards. I opted to install the CPUs with the supplied fan, and applied compound, but accidentally touched one of them. Now I notice that my PC (the other was for my wife) has a louder CPU fan so I assume that is the one I accidentally touched.
Suggestions on thermal compound and/or fan for the CPU?
Suggestions on thermal compound and/or fan for the CPU?
Hey guys...so I've been lurking this thread for a while...just looking at the OP for information on what if I did build a new PC. I haven't decided yet if I am going to, because one of my problems is I am not really familiar with PC performance enough to know "is this going to be good enough for me?" based purely on talking about specs. I do know that my CPU and ram is old, and that it's been time to upgrade that shit for a long time. I also know that if I build a PC, I might as well try to do the best I can, but I don't want to waste money when I might not notice a huge difference in performance for the kind of games I'll be playing for a while.
Based on information I've seen on this thread, I was hoping you guys could help me decide what direction I should go in if I did build a PC. Just to give you guys an idea, I've been running a fairly old PC for a while with only a dual core Intel E7400 @ 2.80 ghz cpu for years. Older 4gb of ram. Some of my drives still run through IDE, because I didn't buy this when SATAs were always common. I did buy this newer video card last year, which is a Geforce GTX 560 ti. Not the latest, but it was a huge improvement over what I had before. Surprisingly I can still run a fair amount of games on my PC. Stuff like Borderlands 2 still look and play really well considering the old specs. Yet there are other games I've played this year that have made me go "ugh, time for an upgrade" like Saints Row 3, and Tomb Raider.
Recently when I was watching the Giantbomb quick look for Saints Row 4 and seeing how amazing that game could run compared to how I was running it...I was starting to feel like "shit, I need to build my PC finally" but I do have to stay within a certain range of funds. Probably no more than $600-700, with $800 being the maximum. Considering these limitations, and based on the information from the OP of this thread, this is what I've started consider:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K or Intel Core i5-3570K
Motherboard: ASRock B75 PRO3-M LGA
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
GPU: GeForce GTX 760 2GB or reuse my GTX 560 ti
Storage: OS drive - Samsung SSD 64gb
Storage: Steam/Games drive - WD 2tb sata HDD
PSU: (this is something I'm not sure about, because I honestly don't know what kind of power I'd need) Antec VP-450 450W ATX or Antec BP550 Plus 550W
Case: NZXT Source 210
That's pretty much the gist of it...I honestly don't know what kind of difference I'd be looking at between the 2 CPUs, and if I did go with the Core i7, I would probably have to wait until the spring for a new GPU, and reuse my 560ti until then. I would appreciate any advice you guys can give me. Thanks
Based on information I've seen on this thread, I was hoping you guys could help me decide what direction I should go in if I did build a PC. Just to give you guys an idea, I've been running a fairly old PC for a while with only a dual core Intel E7400 @ 2.80 ghz cpu for years. Older 4gb of ram. Some of my drives still run through IDE, because I didn't buy this when SATAs were always common. I did buy this newer video card last year, which is a Geforce GTX 560 ti. Not the latest, but it was a huge improvement over what I had before. Surprisingly I can still run a fair amount of games on my PC. Stuff like Borderlands 2 still look and play really well considering the old specs. Yet there are other games I've played this year that have made me go "ugh, time for an upgrade" like Saints Row 3, and Tomb Raider.
Recently when I was watching the Giantbomb quick look for Saints Row 4 and seeing how amazing that game could run compared to how I was running it...I was starting to feel like "shit, I need to build my PC finally" but I do have to stay within a certain range of funds. Probably no more than $600-700, with $800 being the maximum. Considering these limitations, and based on the information from the OP of this thread, this is what I've started consider:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K or Intel Core i5-3570K
Motherboard: ASRock B75 PRO3-M LGA
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
GPU: GeForce GTX 760 2GB or reuse my GTX 560 ti
Storage: OS drive - Samsung SSD 64gb
Storage: Steam/Games drive - WD 2tb sata HDD
PSU: (this is something I'm not sure about, because I honestly don't know what kind of power I'd need) Antec VP-450 450W ATX or Antec BP550 Plus 550W
Case: NZXT Source 210
That's pretty much the gist of it...I honestly don't know what kind of difference I'd be looking at between the 2 CPUs, and if I did go with the Core i7, I would probably have to wait until the spring for a new GPU, and reuse my 560ti until then. I would appreciate any advice you guys can give me. Thanks
I think I may have fucked up my P8P67 Pro or my 2500K. Either way, my computer wouldn't display anything after I removed my janky watercooling setup and put my Hyper 212+ back on.
Swapped the motherboard out for a Gigabyte with my old Phenom II X4 945 and everything works fine. I'll have to do some troubleshooting with the Intel stuff to find out what the heck happened.
Swapped the motherboard out for a Gigabyte with my old Phenom II X4 945 and everything works fine. I'll have to do some troubleshooting with the Intel stuff to find out what the heck happened.
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Tried installing my H100i liquid cooler and kept on getting "CPU over temperature" error on my Asus board. Would then blue screen. Bios shows that there is no CPU fan even though it is plugged into the motherboard. No idea if I am doing something wrong or if the H100i is malfunctioned. Will prolly return this one and try again.
Probably, but that doesn't leave you any headroom. Also what's that about efficiency?
BoboBrazil
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Bump.
statham
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I'm guessing my 500watt can really only output 350watts where a 500watt PSU at 80% eff can do 400 or am I wrong?
maneil99
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Efficiency Percentages mean it can deliver that power without sacrificing power saving features and costing you extra cash. All 500w PSU's should be able to do 500w unless they are shit. Higher percentages normally mean the PSU is better made so as a side effect can run higher then they are rated for. Normally you don't want to push a PSU to its max rated usage though
Or that it requires ~715W to output 500W of usable power to your components.
statham
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I learned something today, thanks alot seriously. I always make the stupid mistake of going cheap.
Yes.
780 is basically the same performance for 350-400 less. Bench numbers are so close in most instances.
Looking to purchase a monitor that is suitable for all around tasks (gaming, movies, video editing, photography, text), My Budget is $300. Was looking for feedback? So far I am considering the "Asus VS247H-P" which retails for $153 on Amazon currently. Is there anything better I should consider that's under $300. What size monitors does GAF recommend?
Are you sure the backplate is on correctly and that the CPU block is adequately in place? When you turn on the PC do you hear the pump whirring up at all? Try putting you ear really close to the CPU block/pump.
You might also want to try connecting the pump directly to your power supply and turning it on to see if the motherboard connector is not bad. You can follow these instructions to jump your PSU using a paper clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWXgQSokF4
Atraveller
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The most powerful single core card you mean? GTX690 tops it in some occasions.
FallingEdge
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Pretty sure backplate and CPU block is correct. The fans turn on, the Corsair symbol lights up as well. Going into bios, CPU_FAN is N/A. When going back to the 212 cooler, everything works as intended. Frustrating to deal with haha.
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