First build ever for $830

Protomize · 16 Jul 2012 at 20:28

What do you think? Everything is balanced? No bottlenecking issues? Future proof?

CPU: Core i5-3450 over clocked to 3.9ghz
CPU Cooler: Spire Thermax Eclipse II
GPU: HIS IceQ X HD7850 at ( 1235/5500mhz ) or HD 7950/GTX 580 performance
RAM: G. Skill 1333mhz 8gb ( 2x4gb )
Motherboard: Biostar TZ77XE3
PSU: Rosewill HIVE 650w ( 80+ Bronze )
SDD/HDD: 128gb Crucial M4/1TB Seagate Barracuda 7,200rpm
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912

SouthEastBlue · 16 Jul 2012 at 20:31

An Ivy quad at 3.9Ghz won't be bottlenecking anything any time soon... No idea on the power supply we don't have that brand in the UK as far as I know. Rest looks decent but again, not sure what you could get for $800 over there, since prices are a lot different to the UK. Assume you have at least 8GB of ram too? Either way it's a nice spec by the looks of it.

Protomize · 16 Jul 2012 at 20:36

SouthEastBlue said:
An Ivy quad at 3.9Ghz won't be bottlenecking anything any time soon... No idea on the power supply we don't have that brand in the UK as far as I know. Rest looks decent but again, not sure what you could get for $800 over there, since prices are a lot different to the UK. Assume you have at least 8GB of ram too? Either way it's a nice spec by the looks of it.

Yep, I have 8gb's of RAM, forgot to add that.

Lemin · 16 Jul 2012 at 20:58

Id get a i5-3570K for sure.

Protomize · 16 Jul 2012 at 21:00

Lemin said:
Id get a i5-3570K for sure.

No point, it won't offer any significant improvement or any improvement at all in gaming.

Bacon? · 16 Jul 2012 at 21:03

How are you going to overclock a locked processor?

SouthEastBlue · 16 Jul 2012 at 21:15

Bacon? said:
How are you going to overclock a locked processor?

They aren't fully locked, only restricted to a much lower maximum multiplier (x39) than the K versions (x63 for K series Ivy, x57 K series Sandy), but this only applies to quad cores with their turbo boost function and not the locked i3 CPUs.

I had assumed the OP had already got this PC, but if not the 3570K would obviously be better but the 3450 won't exactly bottleneck anything.

Protomize · 16 Jul 2012 at 21:21

I already have the PC and yep the i5-3450 is over clocked to 3.9ghz. I think there is a general misconception here that if it's not a "K" series processor you can't over clock it at all.