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I started looking at upgrading my GFX card (2 * GTX 260s) a couple of weeks back, and so I started looking round. Now when I started looking, no one seemed to be benching any of the graphics cards on a E8600 dual core any more, and the 'slowdown' I was experiencing was apparently more CPU than GPU related 
. So anyway I started looking at new CPUs, decided the i5-3570k would be a good choice. And well a shiny new CPU has to have a shiny new GPU, so I plumped for the 7970 as this seemed to be best in the price point I was looking at, 3 teraflops for £300 has to be good 
.
Of course my old motherboard doesn't fit this type of PSU, so I had to get a new Mobo, nothing fancy needed on that front so I plumped for the ASUS P-Z77v mobo..
Since I had a new motherboard, my old DDR2 memory won't work on that so decided to get 2 4 GB Corsair sticks.
Now having read up on the i5-3570k it seems this is a very overclockable chip, so anyway I invested in the cooler master Hyper 212 EVO.
I decided I would cannibalize my old Case and PSU as the PSU is 900 watts, and the case is a nice Coolermaster Stacker CM831 !
So after this Friday it all arrived, and I spent Friday evening building it, finishing about midnight. Were the pins supposed to make that noise when i closed the shutter on them :S ? Anyway I fired it up and ... nothing.
Rechecked everything, and tried various things, was my Power switch broken. Shorted the power pins on the motherboard, still nothing...
Eventually about 6 hours later I found out the problem. I had been using the GFX connectors on the motherboard
so I found the errant cable that had been hiding at the top of the case and plugged in the 2x4 plug and Woop ! A POST. No Keyboard in though, but anyway I hit the sack at that point. On Sat I decided to head down and purchase another fan for my thermaltake. Well I couldn't decide whether to suck or blow from my cpu, so why not both !
Anyway I hooked it all up, keyboard, LAN, this time the GFX card in and fired it up. And naively I thought Windows Vista may still boot from my old HDD. No such luck, should have known Microsoft and their scheming ways. Anyway I thought to myself Vista 64 is a bloated pile of crap ! So I went and ordered Windows 7. I intend to put this on my 256 GB SSD for Speedy booting when it arrives tommorow. I certainly wouldn't let Vista go anywhere near my SSD...
Oh and whilst playing about in the BIOS. (Oh the joys of not having an OS, but still having a new build, noting the 23 Celsius idle temp of my cpu, which was nice to see ) I noticed a sound that sounded like squelching. Has something died ? In idle ? The sound did not sound too healthy.. ^^;
Turns out something has died. My old Epsilon 900w PSU, well the fan was not spinning, at all. And I know fans don't always spin but i am pretty damned sure that its not a feature, more a bug. And if it can't operate its own fan correctly, well I don't think I should let my old PSU go anywhere near my new stuff ;D
So I was going to ask on here what PSU to buy, anyway after using some calculators and looking round I decided to go for the Corsair AX850W. Cable management is not one of my STRONG points, so this fully modular should fit the bill, also enough Headroom for pretty much anything I may decide to do with the PC in the future, Crossfire perhaps or decide to run 12 HDDs. Anyway i decided 850W was plenty for now and future use. It should arrive tommorow with my windows 7 disk.
Like I said I was going to ask what PSU to buy but my account didn't activate so I thought I'[d share this tale. I'd imagine everyone who leaves their upgrading every 4-5 years does something similiar to this, oh I'll upgrade the GPU, but now its bottlenecked by my CPU and so forth till an almost completely new system is built ^^;
Also first system I've built in about a decade (The E8600/2*260 GTX was shop bought) and the first built solo (Without any techy friends around to help me out) so quite proud
Hopefully tommorow will bring my PSU and Windows 7 and a succesful Boot !
. So anyway I started looking at new CPUs, decided the i5-3570k would be a good choice. And well a shiny new CPU has to have a shiny new GPU, so I plumped for the 7970 as this seemed to be best in the price point I was looking at, 3 teraflops for £300 has to be good .Of course my old motherboard doesn't fit this type of PSU, so I had to get a new Mobo, nothing fancy needed on that front so I plumped for the ASUS P-Z77v mobo..
Since I had a new motherboard, my old DDR2 memory won't work on that so decided to get 2 4 GB Corsair sticks.
Now having read up on the i5-3570k it seems this is a very overclockable chip
, so anyway I invested in the cooler master Hyper 212 EVO.I decided I would cannibalize my old Case and PSU as the PSU is 900 watts, and the case is a nice Coolermaster Stacker CM831 !
So after this Friday it all arrived, and I spent Friday evening building it, finishing about midnight. Were the pins supposed to make that noise when i closed the shutter on them :S ? Anyway I fired it up and ... nothing.
Rechecked everything, and tried various things, was my Power switch broken. Shorted the power pins on the motherboard, still nothing...
Eventually about 6 hours later I found out the problem. I had been using the GFX connectors on the motherboard
so I found the errant cable that had been hiding at the top of the case and plugged in the 2x4 plug and Woop ! A POST. No Keyboard in though, but anyway I hit the sack at that point. On Sat I decided to head down and purchase another fan for my thermaltake. Well I couldn't decide whether to suck or blow from my cpu, so why not both !Anyway I hooked it all up, keyboard, LAN, this time the GFX card in and fired it up. And naively I thought Windows Vista may still boot from my old HDD. No such luck, should have known Microsoft and their scheming ways. Anyway I thought to myself Vista 64 is a bloated pile of crap ! So I went and ordered Windows 7. I intend to put this on my 256 GB SSD for Speedy booting when it arrives tommorow. I certainly wouldn't let Vista go anywhere near my SSD...
Oh and whilst playing about in the BIOS. (Oh the joys of not having an OS, but still having a new build, noting the 23 Celsius idle temp of my cpu, which was nice to see
) I noticed a sound that sounded like squelching. Has something died ? In idle ? The sound did not sound too healthy.. ^^;Turns out something has died. My old Epsilon 900w PSU, well the fan was not spinning, at all. And I know fans don't always spin but i am pretty damned sure that its not a feature, more a bug. And if it can't operate its own fan correctly, well I don't think I should let my old PSU go anywhere near my new stuff ;D
So I was going to ask on here what PSU to buy, anyway after using some calculators and looking round I decided to go for the Corsair AX850W. Cable management is not one of my STRONG points, so this fully modular should fit the bill, also enough Headroom for pretty much anything I may decide to do with the PC in the future, Crossfire perhaps or decide to run 12 HDDs. Anyway i decided 850W was plenty for now and future use. It should arrive tommorow with my windows 7 disk.
Like I said I was going to ask what PSU to buy but my account didn't activate so I thought I'[d share this tale. I'd imagine everyone who leaves their upgrading every 4-5 years does something similiar to this, oh I'll upgrade the GPU, but now its bottlenecked by my CPU and so forth till an almost completely new system is built ^^;
Also first system I've built in about a decade (The E8600/2*260 GTX was shop bought) and the first built solo (Without any techy friends around to help me out) so quite proud
Hopefully tommorow will bring my PSU and Windows 7 and a succesful Boot !
