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Created 8th February 2011 @ 19:03
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So I’m building my own PC.
The thing is, I’m not exactly sure how to check if all this shit will be compatible with the other components, anyone more tech savvy able to spare a few minutes to check for me? Would be greatly appreciated.
This is the scan shopping cart page – shit, nm
I currently have a graphics card and assume it would be compatible – it’s just a PCI-E one, doesn’t require any direct power from PSU
Final build – http://i.imgur.com/C1t2h.png
Last edited by Destrutor,
Yeah everything will work together fine mate, lol 2.5 inch hard drive, choose a 3.5.
Last edited by Dny,
why the f*** r u buying laptop HDD
and that mobo isnt triple chan… not rly a problem, just that u could buy 4x2gb and use dual chan instead of getting 3 sticks that wont do dual chan… not rly smth ull see in terms of loading times, just…weird
can you maybe get someone to put up a decent rig instead of this stuff u randomly chosen?
Last edited by AnimaL,
Yeah, that was the only thing I wasn’t really sure about :p I know literally nothing about hard drives apart from there are different sizes and some are SSD, but I have an external 500GB drive that I would keep data on when transferring from one pc to another, would probably keep all my files on that, and only move steam stuff and programs back across afterwards
Edit – lol, just read the scan page “2.5” Notebook Hard Drives” my bad
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/320gb-seagate-st3320418as-barracuda-720012-sata-3gb-s-7200rpm-16mb-cache-11-ms How about that HDD?
Last edited by Destrutor,
320 is too small and too slow
get minimum 750gb 3.5inch… or ssd
edit: stop looking at drives so small… they have like 2 surfaces and are much slower than medium size like 500-1tb that have like 4 surfaces to read/write from
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/500gb-western-digital-wd5001aals-caviar-black-sata-3gb-s-7200rpm-32mb-cache-89-ms if ur short on money
Last edited by AnimaL,
ok then http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-western-digital-wd10ealx-7200rpm-32mb-sata-6gb-s-cav-bl-35 Told you I was a spastic when it came to HDD’s
I can easily stretch to £50 for a HDD, it’s only a little bit extra :p
Edit – Being told by my brother (Who is basically chris, but scottish) that I should rather go for 2x4GB RAM chips, and I literally can’t see any for a reasonable price, any suggestions? :p
Last edited by Destrutor,
you dont have 6gb port on ur mobo
i know the 6gb ports are able to deal with 3gb drives… but i have no clue if 6gb drives would be working on 3gb port… my guess is no
just use the one i recommended
2×4 or 4×2… what ever is cheaper for you…
Last edited by AnimaL,
If you are buying AMD, make sure you get an 8 series chipset, so you have SATA 3 support (may want to make sure the motherboard has usb 3 as well, this is not part of the chipset!)
Last edited by Tikcus,
Quoted from Tikcus
If you are buying AMD, make sure you get an 8 series chipset, so you have SATA 3 support (may want to make sure the motherboard has usb 3 as well, this is not part of the chipset!)
So something like this? http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-m4a87td-usb3-amd-870-s-am3-pci-e-20-%28×16%29-ddr3-2000%28oc%29-sata-6gb-s-sata-raid-atx
Quoted from AnimaL
2×4 or 4×2… what ever is cheaper for you…
Edit, have added all the things people have suggested/said, new cart looks like this – http://i.imgur.com/36psJ.png
Last edited by Destrutor,
good
now get http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zalman-CNPS10X-PERFORMA-High-Performance-Cooler/dp/B00350O5DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297194005&sr=8-1 and start clocking the shit out of it :]
Oh fuck… yeah I forgot about a CPU cooler xD
Quoted from AnimaL
good
now get http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zalman-CNPS10X-PERFORMA-High-Performance-Cooler/dp/B00350O5DK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297194005&sr=8-1 and start clocking the shit out of it :]
How about this http://www.scan.co.uk/products/titan-dc-k8m925b-r-for-amd-socket-am2plus-am2-am3-940-939-754 – Would rather get everything off Scan in one order, and they don’t stock that particular cooler, or any other zalmans for that matter :S
lol please dont buy that thing,… what ever that is
nm
Last edited by Destrutor,
why are you getting a custom heatsink? save some money.
If you are running at stock speed then the stock cooler will be fine. Modern cpu’s don’t produce heat like they used to. and the stock coolers are better quality than they used to be.
Also get a cheaper PSU. I would suggest 450-500 watt modular PSU is more than enough for this build. Your graphics card is not drawing a huge amount of power therefore the 600w is massive overkill basically.
Even if you upgrade to a massive single modern card a decent 500w will be enough. 600+ would be for running a pretty busy system and you are not running that much hardware (such as multiple hdd, sound card, multiple cd drives/ fans physx card)
essentially there is a lot of marketing around psu’s and gaming pc’s making you think you need that kind of power asus has a good tool on their website http://support.asus.com/PowerSupplyCalculator/PSCalculator.aspx?SLanguage=en-us which will help you to find the right psu.
tl/dr:
I just pumped your system through it and added in a nvidia gtx580 2 cd/rw drives and 3 chassis fans and its come up recommending a 450watt minimum PSU. So save some cash!
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