Final Build check

Grad · 12 Oct 2011 at 13:59

Asus GeForce GTX 570 DirectCU II 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £257.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - £167.99

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £149.99

Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £124.98

XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £47.99

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £23.99

Look ok? Will be hooked up to a 42 Plasma so would like to run 1920/1080.

Assume the gfx card will come with some sort of mini hdmi convertor?

stulid · 12 Oct 2011 at 14:11

That looks ok.

The card has normal size HDMI ports - http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/NVIDIA_Series/ENGTX570_DCII2DIS1280MD5/#specifications

It comes with

1 x Power cable
1 x DVI to D-Sub adaptor
1 x Extended SLI cable

Grad · 12 Oct 2011 at 14:15

Great, thanks Stulid, I should have checked there first.

Anything you would change before I click the buy button?

stulid · 12 Oct 2011 at 14:26

Nothing really, there is some White Vengeance RAM for the same price, but the specs are the same.

Grad · 12 Oct 2011 at 14:34

Thanks

Now to read up on timings etc !

Grad · 17 Oct 2011 at 21:50

Ok Built PC on Friday, everything working ok over weekend. Temps per core sitting around 25 at desktop, highest I've seen is 40.

Just played an hour of TF2 and had a lockup. Now PC is stuck in a boot loop without reaching mobo post. What on earth have I broken?