Help Specing an all-rounder

[Doomedspeed]

whats the difference between the spec'd 7850 card and this one? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

All I can see is it has an extra fan?

That is basically it, the one extra fan helps with cooling though, unless you are 'mega' Overclocking it you wont see a difference.

I'd just go for the cheapest one.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Thank you for this

Can I swap out the spec'd motherboard for this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-401-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261 ?

Cheers Chris

 

[Chris_Hebden]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £71.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £34.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939/AM2/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £15.98
Total : £894.86 (includes shipping : FREE).

 

[stulid]

Get the Z77-D3H board as it has a better sound chip and has Lucid Virtu
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

Id also be tempted to use the stock heatsink supplied with the retail CPU and get a better heatsink later on.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £71.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £34.99
Total : £878.88 (includes shipping : FREE).



So is this everything I am going to need for what I want? I am about to press buy

 

[stulid]

That is everything.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

BOUGHT!!!! Holy crap!! Can a mod change the name of this thread to "how the hell am I going to put this together"

Thank you to everyone's help on this, its been very appreciated

 

[RJC]

Haha

you be ok, nice spec

 

[stulid]

Well done dude.

Get some build pictures up and a picture of all the shiny new boxes as they arrive.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Yea will do!! I'm looking forward to the new challenge! I will no doubt be on here Tuesday evening asking loads of questions :-\

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Yipee!!! It's all here!! Can't put it all together tonight unfortunately but quick question about thermal paste. Neither cpu or motherboard came with any, is this correct?

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Wasted post

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Is the 3 grey pads on the bottom of the heatsink be ok? Or do I get some paste from a local retailer?

 

[Tasocahtfu]

They'll be fine mate

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Hay all! On my new PC!! Very happy with it. Before I post pics I have to do a lot of cable management AND I seem to have a hard drive error! My Seagate hard drive cant be found in My Computer, however it can be seen in device manager, any ideas?

 

[Tasocahtfu]

Try Start > Right-click Computer > Manage > Then go to Disk Management on the left.

If it shows in there it might just need initialising or formatting - right click the drive name in the bottom pane and see what options you have.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

Here are the install pics ! Ive got to buy some extenders for the wires running across the mother board, but apart from that, i am quite happy with it!

PC is amazing! I have never used anything like this before! Runs FSX with everything on and REX in a built up environment at 30-40 fps which i am very happy with!

Thank you to everyone who helped spec it for me, very appreciated

 

[99Androidguy777]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x HIS HD 7850 IceQ X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785QN2G2M) w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £71.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £34.99
Total : £878.88 (includes shipping : FREE).



So is this everything I am going to need for what I want? I am about to press buy

Why get Seagate again when you were having a problem with the External Seagate hard drive ?

Hay all,
I have an external hard drive (Seagate) but its not very good to watch films off as it keeps "seeking" during the film causing the film to stop playing, this is a 1TB. I could do with a hard drive this size that's suitable to watch films off, or a SSD and a smaller hard drive so that film watching over the network isn't an issue.
Cheers Chris

I am just wondering why is all.

 

[Chris_Hebden]

LOL its a bit late to question that now ! It was what was recommended to me to use, and I put the external hard drive failures down to the lack of reading capability of it. I am not sure on the spec of it to tell you what the read/write figures are