Build advice

SS4 French toas · 9 Jun 2010 at 00:27

Hi, so I'm finishing my last year at college and I'll be starting University soon. So yeah, summers here and I want to build a new PC and get a few good months of quality game time.

So far the parts I have chosen are

Asus P6X58D-E (not sure if the Premium version is worth the extra cash)

Corsair Dominator Tri Channel 6GB (3x2GB) PC3 - 12800 1600MHz DDR3 C7 (I like the low latency)

Intel Core i7 930

nVidia 480 GTX (would prefer to get an EVGA)

(Currently using a Corsair TX 750 watt PSU)

Planning on getting the 850 Corsair Gold power supply if it's released any time soon and my current wont be suitable for the job.

Lian Li A77F (Black)

I don't really want to spent anymore than £1500 ish, I already have a hard drive and what not and don't intend on buying another unless the SATA 3 hard drives are quite a bit faster.

Anyway, I'd like some advice and feedback please... just in case there is somethin' I could improve on without spending a lot more cash.

Not sure if i've forgotten to mention anything, anyway.. Thankyou.

MonkeykingZX · 9 Jun 2010 at 00:58

well if you're only gonna be using it for gaming i'd get this lot:

(your psu will run it fine aswell)

SS4 French toas · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:04

Oops, forgot to mention.. i'll be using it to render quite a lot of 3D stuff in 3DMax/Maya

Watercooling scares me, it sounds pretty complicated and I know pretty much nothing about it!

Didn't really consider an ATI card, would the two 5850's out perform the 480 as I see it comes to a similiar price.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

MonkeykingZX · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:06

i'd get this lot then,

yes two 5850's outperform a single 480 and the corsair h50-1 requires you to fit one part like a normal cpu cooler and another to a vacant 120mm fan space and that's it, don't need to do anything else to it....ever, other than occasionaly de clog the radiator/fan of dust

SS4 French toas · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:13

Might sound REALLY silly, but uhm, what about the water? do I need to replace it and how often? is it big?

thanks again.

MonkeykingZX · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:17

quite small you don't have to replace it the water, although they do only have a limited amount of hours that they can run for before you have to chuck it although this is something like 10000 hours

if you don't wanna even have to think about that at any point you could get the titan fenrir

JCBeastie · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:25

The Corsair bundle is an 800D case, 650 watt PSU and the H50 cooler. The H50 is completely self contained, all you have to do is mount the pump/block on the CPU and the radiator on the rear fan of the case, simples.

Went with a single 5870 as it's all the performance you'll need without sucking up all the power of two lesser cards, also multi-GPU set ups have their gremlins.

Chucked in a Blu-Ray (reading) and DVD/CD writer too.

SS4 French toas · 9 Jun 2010 at 01:43

Hmm, the 800D is probably one the nicest looking cases i've ever seen to be honest. Not too fond of it being made out of steel though.

I think will end up buying the Corsair cooler, not sure about getting the bundle though since I already have a 750watt psu.

I'm a bit of a Lian Li fan boy so i'm not sure if I'll choose another case (it does have plenty of room for large graphics cards and it's not something I want to change again anytime soon if the cards get much larger)

just a quick question about the RAM JCBeastie, why is it that you've chosen 1333mhz memory rather than the 1600mhz?

Blu Ray sounds good

I thought it'd be more expensive than that.

Definately appreciate the help.

JCBeastie · 9 Jun 2010 at 02:19

Er sorry thought I picked the 1600, it's faster and cheaper. My mistake.

I agree with the Lian Li's but I don't think they're worth the current asking price tbh.

Dropped the PSU, moved to a 700D (no window and no hot swap bays) and fixed the memory.