Newbie Self build

[katyandtony]

Hi Honosuseri

This is my first time at building a system and plan on doing it again in the future with a system for the kids so will learn from this build, how do I tell if the heatsink already has paste on it as I thought it had to be applied to the processor also ??

Have included a copy of the heatsink can anyone tell me do I need to add paste to the heatsink or the processor

Thanks

 

[Bacon?]

The white stuff you can see is the preapplied paste, you just need to remove the coverin foil on it and then pop it onto the CPU as instructed.

EDIT: Before you even put the GPU in I would replace the PSU with something of actual quality. Its unlikely for the mobo and PSU to explode but its possible.

 

[katyandtony]

I cannot see any foil covering the paste ??

 

[passey89]

is a big plastic cover on the stock intel i think you've already taken it off in this pic.

 

[katyandtony]

ok so I do not need to apply anymore paste to the processor I can just go ahead and put the processor and heatsink into the system ??

Thanks

 

[passey89]

yes

grey stuff is the paste

 

[Bacon?]

So you already removed the covering see through foil?

 

[katyandtony]

excellent as it was the one thing that was worrying me that I would either not put enough or too much paste on so not having to add it has made me happy going to buy the hard drive and ram on monday when overclockers reopens in there new location thanks to all you guys for your expert help to a complete newbie lol

 

[honosuseri]

excellent as it was the one thing that was worrying me that I would either not put enough or too much paste on so not having to add it has made me happy going to buy the hard drive and ram on monday when overclockers reopens in there new location thanks to all you guys for your expert help to a complete newbie lol

Sorry for the late reply, I was cooking lunch. I see my fellow forum members have already helped with your paste query.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £68.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Total : £103.68 (includes shipping : £7.25).



If you dont have the HDD thats good, you can get this instead. The RAM has a better (lower) CAS rating than the Geil kit too.

If you tell me what you actually own and how much you ideally want to spend I can spec suggestions for the other components. Please don't say as cheap as poss, that doesn't help lol

 

[scrlk]

Flight Simulator X
Video card 32 MB DirectX 9-compatible video card

Video card DirectX 9 (or later version)-compatible video card

7850 will easily max it

RailWorks: Train Simulator 2013
System requirements Core 2 Duo 3.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB (GeForce 8800 GT or better), 6 GB HDD, Windows XP/Vista/7/8

You will not max out FSX on this kind of system. Even today, it's stupidly demanding on systems.

 

[katyandtony]

Sorry for the late reply, I was cooking lunch. I see my fellow forum members have already helped with your paste query.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £68.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
Total : £103.68 (includes shipping : £7.25).



If you dont have the HDD thats good, you can get this instead. The RAM has a better (lower) CAS rating than the Geil kit too.

If you tell me what you actually own and how much you ideally want to spend I can spec suggestions for the other components. Please don't say as cheap as poss, that doesn't help lol

I currently have the following items

Case
OcUK Galaxy III Tower Case - Black (500W PSU) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-OP&groupid=2362&catid=505&subcat=

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

Processor
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-418-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567

Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-040-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Optical Drive
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-LG

I would say about another £300 to £400 to spend on the system max

 

[honosuseri]

I currently have the following items

Case
OcUK Galaxy III Tower Case - Black (500W PSU) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-017-OP&groupid=2362&catid=505&subcat=

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

Processor
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-418-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=567

Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-040-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

Optical Drive
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-LG

I would say about another £300 to £400 to spend on the system max

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £167.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £68.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £52.98
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £42.95
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Achilles II SD1284 CPU-Cooler - 120mm (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366 AMD AM2/AM3/FM1) £23.98
Total : £392.87 (includes shipping : FREE).



Sell your current case or try and return it, I'd do the same with the soundcard too but you could use it I suppose.

Have a good look at the Z9 case and you will see why it's such a bargain. Four 120mm fans (3 are LED blue), digital temp display, fan controller, cable management and P4/8 extension cable. I own one myself, it's a brilliant starters case. Note the PSU is mounted at the bottom of the case, away from the hot air which will all know rises

The PSU is excellent and a steal on that offer. Being modular you only use the cables you need. This improves airflow and looks as the inside of the case is obviously tidy.

This RAM is much faster and also a steal on offer. Nice little heatsink if you want it to help overclocking of the i5K......you can use the stock heatsink to save cash of course, it could be changed later.

Better HDD, your choice spins at 5,900rpm, this barracuda is 7,200rpm and cheaper. The 660 will be your best bet for a gaming GPU and will play any game you throw at it very happily. Cuda support will help with other software (video encoding for example).

If you need any help with the build, feel free to ask. You could consider doing a build log with pretty pics to show the rig off

 

[katyandtony]

Just a quick update, I finally completed the build of my first self build pc last night and nervously pressed that power button lol.

Would like to thank everyone on here for their help and overclockers for the advice on some parts also when I was in the store sorry for being a complete novice haha.

We now have the bug for building systems and can assure you this system will grow bigger as time goes by.

Thanks
Tony

 

[katyandtony]

One question I have what should be the average temperatures of the CPU, I am currently reading about 30 to 36c with normal operation.

 

[powelly]

that temperature is absolutely fine.

 

[katyandtony]

Whilst playing trainsim 2013 and also flight sim X the temps went upto mid 50's is that normal