First time build - Gaming Rig

Madmuzza · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:32

Btw lads here is my final spec,

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using my old BR drive out of my machine

stulid · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:35

Looks great, that HDD isnt any faster than a Samsung F3 or Seagate barracuda, mechanical drives are not fast enough to use a SATA 6GB interface and the 64mb Cache is pointless too, just wasting £20 for no gain.

Madmuzza · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:39

ah okay mate, so swap out that HDD and I'm all sorted.

Stulid sorry for the questions but if I wanted to overclock my CPU would I have to do it in the BIOS or is there some program I can do it with? And also (Sorry

) with that water cooler on my CPU will I have to refill it? If so how many times over a year?

stulid · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:42

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/4

This guide even uses the same motherboard

And - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651

Jat92 · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:44

hi i don't know if you've ordered yet but you may want to have a look at this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-015-OC&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1669

Martini1991 · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:49

Madmuzza said:
Well I'm going to order it tonight, if anyone fancy helping me build and earning some £££ then let me know.

I live in Manchester

You haven't set up trust yet.

Madmuzza · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:54

Oh I thought that was internet slang on these forums haw haw haw, where do I do that? In my settings?

Martini1991 · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:54

Madmuzza said:
Oh I thought that was internet slang on these forums haw haw haw, where do I do that? In my settings?

The "trust" button.
It's next to quote.

Madmuzza · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:57

Martini1991 said:
The "trust" button.
It's next to quote.

Sorry about that, all done now mate

Martini1991 · 10 Apr 2011 at 11:59

Sent you a message, to reply you've got to use my E-mail which it displays.

cammy5477 · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:00

Madmuzza said:
Someone told me the Asus was the best but I'm going with Sapphire, I would order it all at work now but I don't trust this line....someone is watching me....

Roll on 18:00, hopefully if I order tonight it should be with me mid week when I'm off

asus,sapphire all good.....
asus had melting 590's though so thats got to make you wonder!

Martini1991 · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:02

cammy5477 said:
asus,sapphire all good.....
asus had melting 590's though so thats got to make you wonder!

It's an issue with the reference design, it's not vendor limited.

cammy5477 · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:07

Martini1991 said:
It's an issue with the reference design, it's not vendor limited.

the only ones i seen melt were asus...where there others martini?
i'd still buy asus over every other brand

stulid · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:10

I have seen both Zotac and EVGA boards fry on various forums.

Martini1991 · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:12

cammy5477 said:
the only ones i seen melt were asus...where there others martini?
i'd still buy asus over every other brand

There's a few all over the place, but doesn't state brand.
But I only looked in one thread

cammy5477 · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:57

Martini1991 said:
There's a few all over the place, but doesn't state brand.
But I only looked in one thread

asus must have recalled theres because all of a sudden ocuk stopped selling them....thats what made me think it was asus because they were still selling the gigabyte and msi cards they had

Madmuzza · 10 Apr 2011 at 12:59

cammy5477 said:
asus must have recalled theres because all of a sudden ocuk stopped selling them....thats what made me think it was asus because they were still selling the gigabyte and msi cards they had

I noticed they just vanished one day as well, I was going to get one of them

cammy5477 · 10 Apr 2011 at 13:17

Madmuzza said:
I noticed they just vanished one day as well, I was going to get one of them

i did notice that the asus 590's had a slight overclock on them on an already overloaded card...bad mistake asus.... :eek:

EniGmA1981 · 10 Apr 2011 at 13:22

Jat92 said:
hi i don't know if you've ordered yet but you may want to have a look at this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-015-OC&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1669

^^ this post seems to've been missed - thought I'd quote it just in case you HAD missed it! twice the capacity on that SSD for a little cheaper!

stulid · 10 Apr 2011 at 13:25

EniGmA1981 said:
^^ this post seems to've been missed - thought I'd quote it just in case you HAD missed it! twice the capacity on that SSD for a little cheaper!

And a slower first gen Vertex.