Budget 2500K First Time Build

phill9800 said:
Be nice to hear about it :)

Was looking into the Vertex 3 models, but wasn't sure on them. They certainly do have very good read and write speeds that's for sure!! :)
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Most are going for the Crucials right now, for their reliability. Any actual performance difference between the top SSDs are practically indistinguishable apart from on bench marks. But Crucials are known for reliability and stability.
 
Dispatched: Crucial M4 128GB SSD, Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 keyboard and mouse combo, HDMI--> DVI lead, 3pin cable extension, arctic thermal paste and 3pin fan cable extension.

The SSD order said, "order dispatched, expect delivery between Mon-Fri 7:00AM-7:00PM". :rolleyes:
 
phill9800 said:
Will you be overclocking the CPU much at all?
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Not straight away, but yes. The plan is to just enjoy it stock for a while. Stock, this will be light years faster then the laptop I've been using the past 4 years with it's 1.66GHz dual core, 1GB RAM and 60GB hard drive. This is not only my first build, but first desktop PC as well. My laptop can't even handle flash games or 720 youtube videos.

I will overclock, get a HSF and a GPU, but I reckon I'll need to get a more powerful PSU before that. The builder series 430W PSU may struggle. :)
 
I think 850W may be overkill. I certainly have no plans for any sort of multi GPU setup or water cooling. I reckon 650W would be ample, and I hear such good things about Corsair PSUs, I'll definitely be sticking with them.

Ok then, £200 for the 580 and AX1200. :)
 
SMed said:
Dispatched: Crucial M4 128GB SSD, Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 keyboard and mouse combo, HDMI--> DVI lead, 3pin cable extension, arctic thermal paste and 3pin fan cable extension.

The SSD order said, "order dispatched, expect delivery between Mon-Fri 7:00AM-7:00PM". :rolleyes:
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Everything dispatched above has arrived except the SSD, keyboard+mouse. Very annoying as I had the whole day off today and would've been perfect. Meh.
 
phill9800 said:
I always end up going for a bit more than I know I would need else I would hate having to buy something twice, also future proofs things a little too just incase you do buy something bigger than you think :)

I'd at least go for the 750W model then, the only reason I mentioned the 850W was that it has two 8 pin CPU plugs :)

I'm gutted to hear that the SSD didnt turn up :( I was looking forward to the review!! :)
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The way I try to negate buying twice is to buy secondhand, so at least I won't lose much, if any, money. :D

But if buying new, then I'll usually go for more than I need right now. Hence the 2500K instead of the i3 2100 I was initially going to get, the 128GB SSD instead of the original 64GB I was going to get, and the 8GB RAM instead of the 4GB.
 
Just plugged in all my cables, waiting for SSD and keyboard.
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Typing from my new PC now. :cool:

FINALLY!!

I'm currently just running Ubuntu from a USB stick. Need to just install the SSD and Windows.

So happy right now. :D
 
phill9800 said:
I'm gutted to hear that the SSD didnt turn up :( I was looking forward to the review!! :)
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Well, I don't have any like-for-like system to compare, but I'll tell you this. Boots up a stock W7 OS in under 20 seconds. I'm sure there are tweaks to make it faster too. And everything opens practically instantly. So far I mean just windows and system apps etc. I haven't installed any software yet, nor any benchmarking apps. I'll get to that eventually. Loving it. :D
 
Installed all the mobo and intel drivers, and MSE. Next is Office 2010, as I have assessments due next week, but now I rest. I'll try to get some desk pics up at some point, but the case is under the desk.

I need some quieter fans, this thing is rather annoying. I put the PSU upside down, but there aren't any vents underneath. The turbulence may be making it louder. But if I flip the PSU, I don't know if the CPU power cable will around the mobo instead of across. I've turned off the case side fan, and the exhaust fans have been set to low. May have to get some quieter fans later. I actually think it's mostly the Akasa front intake fans.
 
phill9800 said:
Sounds like someone is in PC heaven right about now!! :D

The SSD's are great and I must admit the most annoying thing for me is having the Adaptec cards in my systems because it makes the boot up time take an age, maybe between one and two minutes before I see Windows desktop, but when I get it loaded, everything is pretty much as fast as I'd need it.
I do score a kinda nice 6.2 for the disk drive speed but that's on the slowest of SAS drives I have so I'm kinda interested in how two or even four or even eight of the faster Seagate drives will score! I doubt over 7 but who knows!! What does your SSD score??

I'm so pleased for you to have a system your happy with :D Looking forward to seeing the pics and hearing about how your gonna tweak it all ;)
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Very happy. :D

If we're talking windows experience index, it got a 7.9 for disk transfer rate. Overall was 6.2.


Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz 7.5
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.6
Graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics Family 6.2
Gaming graphics 1696 MB Total available graphics memory 6.2
Primary hard disk 94GB Free (119GB Total) 7.9
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