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Heavenkiss

Heavenkiss

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Hey guys,

After a few threads offering great advice, I think I have put together my first build. Just a quick one to see if anyone can improve it and if it's even compatible. My budget is £1000.

I removed an SSD to save cash and to get a better monitor. Is it a big job to transfer windows to an SSD at a later date? I think I can live without an SSD though if it is.

Thanks for looking,

Kev
 
Jony27 said:
this is on offer for £2 more.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-165-CM

everything else seems fine, but wait for what others has to say :)
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Thanks for pointing out dude :)

Krono5 said:
Everything looks great. A very balanced build for the money. I would say I'm not too sure about CM PSU's so it may be an idea to spend a little more to get http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-052-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084.
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I was thinking the same but going off the reviews it seems pretty decent and was trying my best to stay within budget.
 
I'd really recommend getting an SSD to go with that system (Plenty on sale at the moment) and just be careful with your usage for now. Or even use an older hard drive for your media.

Otherwise, looks sweet.
 
BuToNz said:
I'd really recommend getting an SSD to go with that system (Plenty on sale at the moment) and just be careful with your usage for now. Or even use an older hard drive for your media.
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I'd second this. An SSD makes a massive difference to how responsive your computer is. Once you've used one you'll never go back to using a mechanical drive for your operating system, it makes that much of a difference.

Maybe drop the HDD and try and squeeze in a 128GB M4? You could always add a mechanical drive later for additional storage, and wouldn't need to reinstall Windows. As BuToNz says, just be careful how much you install to start with...

For £1000, personally, I wouldn't build a machine without an SSD.
 
Stupid question but how much does windows take up? And does the OEM come with a cd to install? I might consider a ssd and purchase a hdd at a later date hmmm...

Will i also need any other cables to set this build up (with ssd or hard drive) as i noticed the hard drive is OEM also.
 
W7 should take around ~30GB, with OEM the OS will be tied to the mobo and can't be used again. Whereas a retail will let you you install the OS into different mobos/machines.

as for cables, you shouldn't need any as the mobo will come with a couple of sata cable.
 
Jony27 said:
W7 should take around ~30GB, with OEM the OS will be tied to the mobo and can't be used again. Whereas a retail will let you you install the OS into different mobos/machines.

as for cables, you shouldn't need any as the mobo will come with a couple of sata cable.
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Thanks dude - wasn't sure how far OEM went. Wether it was just a serial or came with a CD. Don't mind if its tied to the mobo. 128Gb should tie me down for a months then until i get a hard drive.

Thanks for the advice for that and the cables. Tempted by SSD now
 
Heavenkiss said:
Stupid question but how much does windows take up? And does the OEM come with a cd to install? I might consider a ssd and purchase a hdd at a later date hmmm...
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You can do some tweaks to reduce the space it uses - like getting rid of the pagefile etc - here's a useful link for configuring your new SSD under Windows.

I installed Windows on my 128GB M4, cleaned things up as described in that link, installed my drivers and a few benchmarking tools and was sitting at 100GB free out of 119GB usable space.
 
masto said:
You can do some tweaks to reduce the space it uses - like getting rid of the pagefile etc - here's a useful link for configuring your new SSD under Windows.

I installed Windows on my 128GB M4, cleaned things up as described in that link, installed my drivers and a few benchmarking tools and was sitting at 100GB free out of 119GB usable space.
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Think im sold on a SSD now then. Thanks mate. Will check that link out.
 
If you're going to go with SSD and no storage can i just ask what you're uses are and how long it would be before you could afford a storage drive?

The reason I'm asking is that if you play a lot of games and want them installed along with downloading 'stuff' then it will fill up pretty quickly, depending on the games and what you are downloading of course.

Some games are fairly small but some are large and I'd hate for you to be in a position where the drive is full and you have to delete and use a one in one out system :)
 
stulid said:
4.5Ghz±
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Thanks - just as good for the gpu? Not looked into overclocking as such yet - putting my first buid together ive already learned a shed load and will cross the bridge to overclocking once the system is built. As long as ive a good system for a few years here im happy.

Cloudstomp said:
If you're going to go with SSD and no storage can i just ask what you're uses are and how long it would be before you could afford a storage drive?

The reason I'm asking is that if you play a lot of games and want them installed along with downloading 'stuff' then it will fill up pretty quickly, depending on the games and what you are downloading of course.

Some games are fairly small but some are large and I'd hate for you to be in a position where the drive is full and you have to delete and use a one in one out system :)
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I might be tempted to go over budget - i have the cash its just a lot of money already so was trying to stick to my 1k budget.

BuToNz said:
Turn off the hibernation file (Assuming you don't use it) to save a good 5-6gb of space...
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
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Thanks for the tip. I associate hibernation with laptops anyhow so this could come in handy if i dont go with a HDD.

Quick question guys, what are the chances of me frazzling a part if I OC and does warranty cover it? Looking to OC graphics card and cpu and anything else if possible. Any videos / guides with my parts would be a godsend. Why is it that the manufacturers dont do the overclocking themselves too sell better parts?
 
Heavenkiss said:
Quick question guys, what are the chances of me frazzling a part if I OC and does warranty cover it? Looking to OC graphics card and cpu and anything else if possible.
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Take it slowly. Usually as you ramp up clock speed, you ramp up voltages. It's the voltages that can be a problem. So don't go above 20% over-volts, and move the clock as high as it can, then take it back down a notch.

Any videos / guides with my parts would be a godsend. Why is it that the manufacturers dont do the overclocking themselves too sell better parts?
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Some do. I think that video card is slightly overclocked.

In fact AMD used to have 'black edition' cpus, that were clocked a little higher, with unlocked multipliers. Intel doesn't do much themselves (the 2550K has 100mhz more than the 2500K but it's more for marketing reasons), but they don't mind overclocking. They even have the 'extreme' line of cpus for the enthusiast and professional market (although SB-E now is more like an entire class of processors of its own, rather than an 'golden'sample' selection of the standard processors), and closed waterloop coolers (which are nothing special).

They don't generally overclock CPUs themselves, each class of CPU has the same base voltage, and that determine conservatively what clock you can use. They do not overclock the CPUs individually at the end of the production line. That would be impossible and pointless to do as the majority of users do not care for overclocking. It's left to the user and specialist shops.
 
Ok guys thanks for the help. I think from your replies I have a decent build so will go ahead and buy :) Will tackle all this voltage and clock talk once it's up and running so expect me to be back lol.

Thanks for your help.
 
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