Soldato
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Hi all
I am about to build a rather low budget system and splice it with my current case, PSU, optical drive etc, or at least I was until I realised my new motherboard does not have IDE ports!
Anyways, the spec so far:
Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge)
Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 Motherboard
GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
MSI HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (taking a punt on this tbh as reliability seems to be a big issue, but will have my mechanical drive as a Vista boot backup + regular backups to an external drive)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
My current PSU is a 6 year old Corsair HX 620W modular. So my first question is, will this be poweful enough, or even suitable to power a current gen mobo and graphics card? (I have just assumed they will use the same connectors etc). The CPU and GPU will draw around 228W, so will that leave me enough for powering everything else including fans? I have no real intention of going crossfire or doing OC'ing, so that will save power. But my case is a BFG900 and has a few fans that are all set to maximum. Also, its a 6 year old PSU, and although it still works perfectly, I'm not entirely sure how long that will be the case if it needs to provide more constant power to the new system. Typically, what is the life expectancy of a corsair PSU, bearing in mind my PC has seen a lot of use in the 6 years since I built it (I'm talking nearly every day for a few hours at least)?
Secondly, how effective/reliable are IDE-SATA converters? I have 2 choices as far as I see, and thats either to keep my mechanical HDD in the case and buy a converter (cheaper option) or to copy the drive to my large external backup drive, buy a current gen mechanical HDD and copy everything back over again.
I had a quick look at converters as far as my optical drive is concerned and for the money, I might as well just buy a new SATA optical. I only want DVD/CD optical, I am not bothered about Blu Ray yet.
Any advice would be welcome.
Cheers
Buff
EDIT - I just realised that my mobo chipset is not compatible with Vista. DOH!! Nevermind, I never much liked Vista anyway
I am about to build a rather low budget system and splice it with my current case, PSU, optical drive etc, or at least I was until I realised my new motherboard does not have IDE ports!
Anyways, the spec so far:
Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge)
Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 Motherboard
GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
MSI HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (taking a punt on this tbh as reliability seems to be a big issue, but will have my mechanical drive as a Vista boot backup + regular backups to an external drive)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
My current PSU is a 6 year old Corsair HX 620W modular. So my first question is, will this be poweful enough, or even suitable to power a current gen mobo and graphics card? (I have just assumed they will use the same connectors etc). The CPU and GPU will draw around 228W, so will that leave me enough for powering everything else including fans? I have no real intention of going crossfire or doing OC'ing, so that will save power. But my case is a BFG900 and has a few fans that are all set to maximum. Also, its a 6 year old PSU, and although it still works perfectly, I'm not entirely sure how long that will be the case if it needs to provide more constant power to the new system. Typically, what is the life expectancy of a corsair PSU, bearing in mind my PC has seen a lot of use in the 6 years since I built it (I'm talking nearly every day for a few hours at least)?
Secondly, how effective/reliable are IDE-SATA converters? I have 2 choices as far as I see, and thats either to keep my mechanical HDD in the case and buy a converter (cheaper option) or to copy the drive to my large external backup drive, buy a current gen mechanical HDD and copy everything back over again.
I had a quick look at converters as far as my optical drive is concerned and for the money, I might as well just buy a new SATA optical. I only want DVD/CD optical, I am not bothered about Blu Ray yet.
Any advice would be welcome.
Cheers
Buff
EDIT - I just realised that my mobo chipset is not compatible with Vista. DOH!! Nevermind, I never much liked Vista anyway
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I havent read the manual yet so the 2 power plugs might only be needed for Crossfire. Luckily, the card I have bought comes with 2 adaptor plugs included 
