New build questions

Kovalinen

Kovalinen

Kovalinen

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Okay so it's been a year now after my first build and I'm bored & itching to get another one on the go I just want some final advice if what I've picked will work before ordering.


Case - Corsair Obsidian 800D
Mobo - Asus X58 Sabertooth
CPU - Intel i7 950
GPU - GTX 560Ti
PSU - Corsair Hx850
SSD - OCZ Bigfoot 120gb
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 12GB (3x4GB)
CPU Cooler - Titan Fenrir Evo

Thats roughly what I'm looking at for gaming/watching videos/bluray's any one got any alternate suggestions that i should take on board?

I also read somewhere that the Obsidian doesnt support SATA3 & USB3.0 but can buy parts to make it work would they be worth while looking to invest in?
 
Why not go Sandybridge?

Newer tech, easier to overclock and overclocks more.

SATA 3 is on the motherboard and is nothing to do with the case.

USB 3.0 ports will be on the motherboard as well, you just won't have a front panel connectors, though I think some Asus motherboards have USB 3.0 connectors which fit a 3.5" drive bay.
 
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Yeah i was just flicking through Corsair site and found that they offered USB3.0 & SATA3 accessories for the case wondered if it be worth having a look into. It looked like the SATA3 Panel is a partition that is between your HDD and mother board where the board plugs into the partition and partition is a quick connection for the HDD, not entirely sure I'm just guessing from pictures.
I'm not really into over-clocking I know very little about it and wouldn't like to risk doing it as an amateur lol.
Sandy Bridge is a no no seeing as Google is covered in "Recall's & Flaws" on it at the moment, If Im investing £250 into a small chip I'd rather it work first time and not worry about having to rip it all out if it doesn't work and wait forever for replacements.
 
Its not the Sandybridge processor thats the problem. The problem is about 5% of the Motherboards from Rev.B2 may develope a SATA problem.
The updated Rev.B3 board are just starting to filter through to retailers now. Don't be put off Sandybridge, they are a fantastic processor.:D
 
Kovalinen said:
Yeah i was just flicking through Corsair site and found that they offered USB3.0 & SATA3 accessories for the case wondered if it be worth having a look into. It looked like the SATA3 Panel is a partition that is between your HDD and mother board where the board plugs into the partition and partition is a quick connection for the HDD, not entirely sure I'm just guessing from pictures.
I'm not really into over-clocking I know very little about it and wouldn't like to risk doing it as an amateur lol.
Sandy Bridge is a no no seeing as Google is covered in "Recall's & Flaws" on it at the moment, If Im investing £250 into a small chip I'd rather it work first time and not worry about having to rip it all out if it doesn't work and wait forever for replacements.
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It's not the processor it's the motherboards which have a potential fault.

A few Sandybridge motherboards with the fixed B3 chipset are available now with plenty more to come.

At stock the Sandybridge 2500K and 2600K are already clocked much higher than the i7 950.
 
The Asus X58 Sabertooth motherboard is a socket 1366 isnt it? You would obviously need a socket 1155 for Sandybridge. I would wait until the New B3 versions of the boards are readily available though. They are starting to become available now so you wont have to wait too long.
The quantity of RAM would probably need changing too. Either 2 sticks or 4 and 2 x 4GB would be better than 4 x 2GB
 
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Well if a socket 1366 wont take a socket 1155 processor I would call that a pretty big difference :eek:
Apart from that it really depends which boards you are comparing.
 
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