Looks like the Zalman closed loop sale is dead, so Hyper 212 Evo it is.
Also, instead of the CL9 HyperX 1.65V 4GB I was looking at, would it be better to switch over to some ADATA CL11 1.5V 4GB DDR3 1600? I've heard a couple nanoseconds of CAS latency doesn't have much appreciable real world difference, and that 1.65V RAM usually means weaker chips that had to be upvolted to perform.
Should be able to pickup some HyperX Fury or whatever cheap, or any 1.5V 9-9-9-24 sticks for ~$65-$70.
You won't notice and can tighten those sticks to 10 if you want.
amazon finally listed the Silverstone ML07. $15 cheaper than the Raven to boot!!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K8CIZYS/?tag=neogaf0e-20
3 to 5 weeks but I just ordered mine.
Neat. Added to notes.
he posted asking for opinions.
The 280 is a rebadged 7950 boost. It and the 760 are closely matched but 280 would edge it for me, and when it's cheaper than a 760 would be what I choose. You'd not go wrong with either, and the 760 does have NVIDIAs excellent software like G sync etc behind it.
760 and 280 are same price in US now. I'd go 760 there. All the other pricepoints AMD wins in performance.
Hey kharma45, mkenyon, kennah, and Hazaro! I have come back to build a second PC. Due to circumstances, I have to order the parts before tonight and I want to know if there are any changes I should make before I do so.
The person wants to play the the upcoming and current games well. I think the build is similar to my first PC. It is preferred that I can upgrade parts (primarily the GPU) and OC in the future. He said he's willing to spend "around $1,000," didn't give me a solid number, but as you can see I'm a bit over that.
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kharma already fixed the build, but I'd toss in a BP550 instead of a HIVE
So I'm rather certain I'm going to upgrade my i7-870 to a Haswell refresh 4970k when they release with a Z97 motherboard. CPU still works fine, but the mobo has been giving me SATA issues for over a year now, so I think it's time to just ditch it (I've said this in this thread before on every CPU cycle, but other monetary obligations have always popped up to delay my upgrade - and I need a PCSX2 and a Dolphin performance boost of all things!). I'm not sure holding out for Broadwell will be worth it since I don't know if we have any non-rumored timetable for it.
I'm thinking when I do this I might upgrade my 212+ to a Noctua NH-D14. Anyone think this is worth it? Looking around the cooling performance increase seems fairly substantial between the two, but geez does it look like a beast, haha!
Just use the 212 EVO. I was on high end air and now the a X60 (Best performing AIO water) and it really doesn't matter.
Should I pull the trigger on a Gigabyte r9 290 4GB for $334 from Amazon Warehouse Deals??
Not if it is a stock cooler.
Regarding motherboards, what about Asus Z97 A. Despite posting here some weeks ago, I still haven't bought anything due to waiting for Devil Canyon and also due to the Z97 release that also happened after my posts. Anyway, I have that motherboard in my cart, are the others a better choice?
They both are extremely similar.
I went back and relooked at a direct comparison and I went with the GB because the recent ASUS mainstream consumer boards have always seemed to lack something or didn't have a good DOA rate.
Once they hit the mainstream we'll see about replacing or even having both so people can choose.
Main thing is onboard sound. ASUS for whatever reason is using an ALC892 (then marketing CLEAR SOUND). The GB has a visible trace and is using the ALC1150 which is 2 steps up. In practice the differences can shrink or not be noticeable.
ASUS has the edge on UEFI styling and mobo tools.
I think the GB looks better. Maybe be built better? IDK
I don't think you can go wrong with either, we'll see.
So I accidentally bought the wrong card, a GTX 750ti for a Dell PC I got for my dad, it cost $150 but will cost around $30 to RMA to Newegg and ship it back. (it needed more power than the PS had).
I currently have a Radeon HD 7850 in my gaming rig and a Radeon 5700 in my son's gaming rig. Is it worth the $120 to keep the GTX 750ti for me and give my 7850 to my son? Or will I not see a big difference? In the US.
7850 is still a good card, there is a difference.
Newegg restock fee should not charge you anything, ask them to waive it and give you a prepaid shipping label.
Must be a pretty old Dell if the 750Ti didn't work...
Wow. Just realized I had shitty coil whine a whike back.
I thought it was a bad ground or something.
The noise comes out of your speakers, right?
No, it comes from the hardware component.
Whine from your audio system under load is usually a sign of electrical interference on your motherboard and a dedicated sound card will fix that.
I've been looking at PC parts for some time and have started saving for my build. I do have a bunch of questions though as I'm trying to learn more about PCs...
-Is there anything special you look for in a PC case?
-How big of a power supply do you really need?
-Is there a benefit to installing the power supply at the top of the case?
-I know most everyone prefers Intel over AMD, but when looking at something like the FX-8350, which I believe is related to the CPUs in consoles. Would this CPU benefit from this if games start using more cores as opposed to an i5-4670K?
I'm just window shopping at the moment, and won't make any concrete decisions until I've got the money to buy everything as you never know what deals will pop up.
I'm currently thinking of going with...
Intel i5-4570K or i5-4670K (Not that I know a thing about overclocking, but it'll be good to have)
Motherboard - Haven't decided, but something with support for at least 16GB of DDR3
The best graphics card I can get in the $200 range.
Sorry, if I had a lot of questions.
Looks, filters, space behind motherboard (back side to hide cables), size, build quality.
Less than you think. 550W for 90% of people. 450W for any midrange rig.
Exhausts hot air, but PSU is also intaking warmer air. Bottom mounts make most sense for stability and cool air intake and it's easier to hide cables there.
The Intel is faster enough per core that it doesn't matter and faster cores are better and easier to work with that more cores. With Watchdogs and something else it
seems that some games might be using more cores, we'll see when more testing is done but I'm fairly positive that an a well clocked i5 will have 0 problems. Anyone with an i7 can test with HT on and off when it comes out.
You'll want a 4790K (releasing in <4 weeks) and a Z97 motherboard.
