AMD build - spec advice

iDevil

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Hi guys, planning on building a gaming machine with these components. I've done some research, but just thought I'd post here to see if there are likely to have any problems with these components:

AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition
Asus M4A77TD Pro AMD 770

Geil value 2x2gb 1333mhz ram (listed in te motherboards QVL)

as for gfx, I'm stuck between a 5870 and a 5850.

My only concern is overclocking limitations with the 770 chipset. How far am I likely to be able to take the 965?

All replies appreciated :)
 
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Well if you can afford the 5870 the by all means go for it.

Im not really good with AMD chips but from what ive seen you would want a 790 chip set and if you wanna overclock you well need a aftermarket heatskin.
 
Why not go with the 955

1600 RAM

5850

Asus M4A79XTD Evo

And then crossfire the 5850 later and overclock the 955 to a little over the 965 levels.
 
Fallen god said:
Well if you can afford the 5870 the by all means go for it.

Im not really good with AMD chips but from what ive seen you would want a 790 chip set and if you wanna overclock you well need a aftermarket heatskin.
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Yea, I was looking at the asus crosshair iii formula which I believe has a 790 chipset, but just trying to save the pennies ya' know :P

can the chipset on the board in the opening post not overclock at all then?

I would get a Arctic cooling freezer 64 or whatever they call it. I have the freezer pro 7 on my current intel machine which looks identical and that works great for me.
 
xBLiNG said:
Why not go with the 955

1600 RAM

5850

Asus M4A79XTD Evo

And then crossfire the 5850 later and overclock the 955 to a little over the 965 levels.
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Sounds good, what chipset does the 79xtd evo have do you know? And what kind of price would it total to ~? Using iPhone on cell network, browsing around is painfuly slow lol.
 
iDevil said:
Sounds good, what chipset does the 79xtd evo have do you know? And what kind of price would it total to ~? Using iPhone on cell network, browsing around is painfuly slow lol.
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The chipset is the 790X one. I bought the 955/M4A79XTD/4gb RAM combo a couple of weeks ago, set me back about £300. I managed to get the RAM and CPU on a This Week Only though!
 
Dave said:
The chipset is the 790X one. I bought the 955/M4A79XTD/4gb RAM combo a couple of weeks ago, set me back about £300. I managed to get the RAM and CPU on a This Week Only though!
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Nice! I take it the this week only has expired now. What RAM did you get?
 
the 79XTD cost £88.99 which is a 790 chipset and i was thinking that would be best aswell but wasnt 100% sure. Its £10 more than the one you spec'd, but going from a 965 to a 955 saves you about £10. Then just get 5850 and some 1600mhz Ram as suggested above.


955
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

5850
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-215-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

1600mhz Ram
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-087-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481
Hope it helps :D.
 
iDevil said:
Nice! I take it the this week only has expired now. What RAM did you get?
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Yeah, I bought the stuff a couple of weeks ago so unfortunately has expired. I got the G-Skill Ripjaw stuff, was a cracking price. Very nippy machine, I was encoding music from FLAC to mp3 at 80x across the four cores earlier on! :D
 
Fallen god said:
the 79XTD cost £88.99 which is a 790 chipset and i was thinking that would be best aswell but wasnt 100% sure. Its £10 more than the one you spec'd, but going from a 965 to a 955 saves you about £10. Then just get 5850 and some 1600mhz Ram as suggested above.


955
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

5850
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-215-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

1600mhz Ram
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-087- GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481
Hope it helps :D.
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Awesome! Very helpfully indeed! One thing with the crossfire though, If I went and bought a 5850 by powercolor today, and in say a year I want another 5850 for xfire, would I have to get another powercolor card? Or could it be a saphire or a xfx if I coulnt get hold of a powercolor?
 
iDevil said:
Awesome! Very helpfully indeed! One thing with the crossfire though, If I went and bought a 5850 by powercolor today, and in say a year I want another 5850 for xfire, would I have to get another powercolor card? Or could it be a saphire or a xfx if I coulnt get hold of a powercolor?
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Well im not 100% sure but i think any company is fine just have to make sure they both run at the same clock speed and its should work together well. Good luck aswell :)
 
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