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nuttyprot

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I do have a 1 year old xfx psu but it is not fully modular and the braiding sucks. I have linked a psu below but wondering is possible to get diferent cables for the below psu?

I don't want to have to upgrade my pc for about 4 years after this build. opinions welcome.

Budget 1.3-1.5k

850w is overkill but I will be going sli layer in the year.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail

Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

OCZ ZX Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2)


Already have
Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Red(Socket LGA 2011/1155/1156/1366/775/AMD AM2/2+/AM3)

Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit
and the ugly haf x case


p.s forgot to mention I wont buy asus products the rma service is £$%^ and I wont buy ati cards lost faith in them after multiple dying on me.

main use gaming, light Photoshop, watching movies and programming
 
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cmndr_andi said:
+1 for the Antec PSU

Also, you may want to go for a cheaper motherboard - as a £140 board like the UD3H which has most of the same features and costs £33 less.
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Been looking at the board I linked for long time and heard a lot of good things about it. Would the UD3H be as good for overclocking?


Ok Antec PSU it is. used to have an antec psu loved it to bits untill i decided I wanted to try and braid it. never doing that again lol.
 
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With an air cooler (like the phanteks) the UD3H should provide basically the same overclocking ability as the UD5H. Though the UD5H does have some nicer stuff like a better sound chip, dual gigabit ethernet and better power circuitry (for better high-end overclocking) - so if you will use these features then you may as well go for it.
 
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Ok seems like all needed to change was the psu :). Roll on Thursday. With regards to the UD5 I would rather have the features than not have them. Going to be a bit of a switch for me as i always went amd in the past was going to get bully last year then it flopped so decided to wait for ivy. The only thing I want to replace in the next 4 years is my normal 2 year gpu upgrade. I tend to rebuild whole system every 4-5 years.
 
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It shouldn't do, the phases counts are different.

12 vs 6 for the CPU itself.

The UD5H has much better sound, more SATA ports, more USB3.0 internal headers.
 
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btw what better sound the ud5 or a asus xonar dx sound card. (have one I got last year but never used it as couldn't be bothered installing it.)
 
The Xonar DX by a country mile.

Don't get me wrong, the UD5H's onboard sound is really good for onboard sound - but a £50 proper sound card will be much better (so long as you have some half decent speakers/headphones to make good use of it).
 
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The sound card, but the UD5H makes missing a good sound card more bearable.

The UD5H has twin amplifiers onbaord also, good for headphones:)
 
Going to order first thing 2moz morning.

Changed psu as advised above

I know I have some unopened samsung green ram I also plan to order kingstone ram. Reason for this after some research seems the UD5 don't like some batches of the samsung ram and rather have the kingstone for backup and saves headaches.

Anymore suggestions welcome.

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