Howdy.
Having finally sorted out enough money to make a gaming PC I'm looking to build something - but on something of a shoe string.
I have a collection of bits already
Intel G850
Asus P8Z77M-Pro motherboard
4gb DD3 (not sure what speed, but hardly set your pants on fire fast)
60gb HDD that makes noise like a chainsaw
520W PSU
Ooooold case I found with an ancient P2 processor in a cupboard I've not used in aaaages
Now, I figured I could make a little HTPC for the living room and a gaming machine...
HTPC
Intel G850
Gigabyte H77N-Wifi motherboard
4gb of know-not-what-speed ram
64gb Sandisk SSD
430W PSU
Small/cheap case (not decided on what yet)
(Later throw in an HD7750 fanless GPU, but not today for playing some older things in the living room)
Gaming machine
i5 3570k
Asus P8Z77M-Pro motherboard
8gb 1600mhz ram
128gb Sandisk Ultra Plus
Asus DirectCU2 7850 (version 1 so it can later be watercooled)
the 520W PSU I have for now (then upgrade to a better one later)
Later buy a snazzy case and second 7850, slightly bigger PSU, then buy a full set of watercooling bits and overclock the dickens out of it all.
Having shopped around, I've found some bits here, some bits on <other online retailers
> at better and worse prices, and should spend about £645 in this first wave of buying...
The gaming machine is going to be used for gaming, and vitualisation work, as well as doing the penetration testing learning I'm struggling to do on this archaic laptop.
Over the next year or so will add to the above to make them a little more capable, and to build a VM workstation with
i3 3220 (4 cores at 3.3ghz seems ideal for multi-vm'ing)
32gb of some rams
P8H77M-Pro Asus motherboard
128gb SSD
2 7750s for GPU processing in things like Backtrack
Any thoughts on choices of bits, improvements here and there? Initially will only be using stock coolers so no doubt it'll all sound like I'm in a wind tunnel and no serious OCing till they're replaced ... but shouldn't be too long till things can be upgaded and improved a little
Having finally sorted out enough money to make a gaming PC I'm looking to build something - but on something of a shoe string.
I have a collection of bits already
Intel G850
Asus P8Z77M-Pro motherboard
4gb DD3 (not sure what speed, but hardly set your pants on fire fast)
60gb HDD that makes noise like a chainsaw
520W PSU
Ooooold case I found with an ancient P2 processor in a cupboard I've not used in aaaages
Now, I figured I could make a little HTPC for the living room and a gaming machine...
HTPC
Intel G850
Gigabyte H77N-Wifi motherboard
4gb of know-not-what-speed ram
64gb Sandisk SSD
430W PSU
Small/cheap case (not decided on what yet)
(Later throw in an HD7750 fanless GPU, but not today for playing some older things in the living room)
Gaming machine
i5 3570k
Asus P8Z77M-Pro motherboard
8gb 1600mhz ram
128gb Sandisk Ultra Plus
Asus DirectCU2 7850 (version 1 so it can later be watercooled)
the 520W PSU I have for now (then upgrade to a better one later)
Later buy a snazzy case and second 7850, slightly bigger PSU, then buy a full set of watercooling bits and overclock the dickens out of it all.
Having shopped around, I've found some bits here, some bits on <other online retailers
> at better and worse prices, and should spend about £645 in this first wave of buying... The gaming machine is going to be used for gaming, and vitualisation work, as well as doing the penetration testing learning I'm struggling to do on this archaic laptop.
Over the next year or so will add to the above to make them a little more capable, and to build a VM workstation with
i3 3220 (4 cores at 3.3ghz seems ideal for multi-vm'ing)
32gb of some rams
P8H77M-Pro Asus motherboard
128gb SSD
2 7750s for GPU processing in things like Backtrack
Any thoughts on choices of bits, improvements here and there? Initially will only be using stock coolers so no doubt it'll all sound like I'm in a wind tunnel and no serious OCing till they're replaced ... but shouldn't be too long till things can be upgaded and improved a little
