First PC Build

Pedaars · 18 Oct 2011 at 12:27

Well finally managed to save some money without the Mrs knowing and bought these

Few build pics

shadow_boxer · 18 Oct 2011 at 12:38

Looks good, great first attempt. What CPU?...now get yourself a decent aftermarket cooler and get overclocking!

storm45 · 18 Oct 2011 at 12:41

wow looks cool! Maybe list specs?

Pedaars · 18 Oct 2011 at 13:40

Oh yes specs thought I had missed something

AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition
Asus Sabertooth 990FX
Corsair Vengance Blue 16GB (1600 MHz)
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 6Gb/s
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR 2048GB
Pionerr 24x Internal S19LBK DVD Rewriter

barneystuta · 18 Oct 2011 at 13:43

Nice work.

I only built my first system last month, just wish I'd done it before (would have saved myself a fortune!)

Pedaars · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:45

So do I cant believe how easy it was to do. Only had trouble fitting the mothetboard as I had not put the standoffs in tight enough theres still 1 thats being a pain. Can you guys advise if an antec truepower 650 watt is enough for this seems to be working ok

Stoner81 · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:01

The 650 PSU should be fine for your system, if you do SLI at some point then I think it may possibly struggle a little. You should have plenty of head room though for adding in more HDD's though with the current setup. Great choice on the case btw

I am seriously thinking about buying it's bigger version (full tower).

Stoner81.

barneystuta · 18 Oct 2011 at 15:01

Pedaars said:
So do I cant believe how easy it was to do. Only had trouble fitting the mothetboard as I had not put the standoffs in tight enough theres still 1 thats being a pain. Can you guys advise if an antec truepower 650 watt is enough for this seems to be working ok

Depends what you have in the system.

This calculator is useful - http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

Pedaars · 18 Oct 2011 at 21:07

Nearly bought the antec 300 case so glad I didnt prefer the haf but its looking very empty in that case. Thinking of an ssd a very nice touch screen fan controller and possibly another 560 sli

Pedaars · 19 Oct 2011 at 10:03

Thanks for the link to that calculator very helpfull.

Regarding an aftermarket cooler can anyone recommend anything I like the look of the sealed watercooled options as I am told they are nice and quiet but id be happy with air if it was able to produce the same results.

This is what the motherboard software is reading at the moment is there any need for extra cooling?

Pedaars · 21 Oct 2011 at 00:45

Can anyone help with my last query please?