Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
788 posts
After pulling my finger out of my arse and doing my Tax return, I have a healthy balance to purchase a new Compewta
I have a little idea of what I want I just need a bigger case and a psu to suit.
i7 2600""
HDD 2T seagate
Asus P8286 deluxe
8 gig 2133 ram
GTX 570
need a 700watt? PSU and a case to suit as my current case is to small.
thoughts and constructive crit?
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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
3793 posts
Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
790 posts
Does it have six cores?
12 mate, My uncles brother's son has this idea of gluing the cores back to back then coating them in zinc to get and extra .7 ghz per core. Brilliant.
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
14857 posts
you're missing the ugly picture of yourself in your avatar and sig
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8058 posts
Get a small SSD to boot from.
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Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
792 posts
Get a small SSD to boot from.
what do you suggest brands and price?
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thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8059 posts
Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
5818 posts
what do you suggest brands and price?
Something that's not an OCZ Vertex 3, unless you like your drive to randomly power down and cause Windows to BSOD.
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infi
Brisbane, Queensland
17594 posts
SSD boot is a big improvement. bigger PSU is always going to come in handy too, but 700w would be ample for that setup.
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Saint
Cainer
Brisbane, Queensland
3078 posts
Please fix the subject typo, ta!
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Please fix the subject typo, ta! I think it's pretty generous to categorise that subject as a 'typo'.
Get a small SSD to boot from. what do you suggest brands and price?
I've had a Corsair Force for over a year now and it's been totally awesome. Not the cheapest though..
If you can afford it, try for something at least 100GB so you can put a few of your most used programs and games on there as well, makes doing your most common tasks so much faster and more enjoyable!
Also I think a 700W PSU is good enough to handle all that plus anything you might add later, unless you're planning on getting a second video card to SLI with in the future.
you're missing the ugly picture of yourself in your avatar and sig I lol'd!
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Red
Sydney, New South Wales
799 posts
As far as I'm concerned a good quality 550W PSU will suffice, I've got almost the exact rig and my 550 is doing fine.
Something that's not an OCZ Vertex 3, unless you like your drive to randomly power down and cause Windows to BSOD.
There's a firmware update for that. Mine BSOD'd twice, then I was informed about the f/w update, now it's fine. And fucken quick.
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skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
4260 posts
Thoughts?
Without a budget, anything is speculative. That system you've specced is worse than one with 3xsli and a watercooler for large overclock.
There you go. Add a figure and then go figure.
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Timmeh
Brisbane, Queensland
796 posts
$1500 would be the budget
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greazy
Brisbane, Queensland
4617 posts
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Reason: Off-Topic
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Red
Sydney, New South Wales
800 posts
As I posted in the other pc thread, this is a reasonably capable build (using existing case, psu, secondary hdd)
Gigabyte GV-N560OC-1GI GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti PCI-E DDR5-1GB, 256BIT, 2X DUAL-LINK DVI-I, 1X MINI HDMI $260.00
Asus P8P67-V3 P67, 4DDR3, D12PH, 2400OC, RAID, GBLAN, PCIE16, 2FW, SA3, ATX, STEP3 $158.00
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Unbuffered DIMM Memory for AMD, Intel Dual Channel DDR3, and upcoming 2nd Generation Intel Core™ platforms $95.00
Intel i7 2600 CORE i7 2600, Quad core with HT, 3.40GHz, 8MB CACHE, LGA1155 $300.00
OCZ VTX3-25SAT3-120G SSD 2.5" SATA3 120G Vertex 3, read 550mb/s, write 500mb/s $278.00
$1091 (from ijk in sydney)
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
14860 posts
Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
5819 posts
There's a firmware update for that. Mine BSOD'd twice, then I was informed about the f/w update, now it's fine. And fucken quick.
I'm still having problems with 2.11, though not as frequent as with 2.06.
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Red
Sydney, New South Wales
801 posts
I'm still having problems with 2.11, though not as frequent as with 2.06.
Well... that sucks :(
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hardware
Brisbane, Queensland
9270 posts
Nah paveway gigabyte do make pretty good video cards
too bad their motherboards are shit
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
14861 posts
actually i think i have a gigabyte ati 6870 card in my machine at the moment
now that i read it properly, Red is doing it right
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Red
Sydney, New South Wales
802 posts
skythra
Brisbane, Queensland
4261 posts
Nah paveway gigabyte do make pretty good video cards
too bad their motherboards are shit
Oh.. I hear that a lot, but after three failed asus boards in a row, i swapped to gigabyte and seem to have very little trouble with them. I could be lucky but these last two gigabyte boards overclock well and have features enough for me to be happy.
Not that it matters.. I'd rather go evga personally, from online reviews their features and overclocking are usually better than both :( but it always seems when I go to umart to get one they're out of stock. MSY never have brand parts in stock at indro either.
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Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
32710 posts
Does it have six cores?
oh snaps
fark, all sandforce controller ssds are risky!
but so so sweet, during the brief periods they arent black screening/blue screening, or just freezing up your windows!
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copuis
Brisbane, Queensland
755 posts
i don't know, i have a vertex 2, and *touch wood* not had an issue (with the drive)
if the win experience score is anything to go by, I'm pulling a 7.5 on the hard drive (it was 6.8 before the new mobo, and it if i take out 8gb of ram (leaving 4) the speed (or score at least) drops to 7.2
boot times are wonderful, about as quick as a 16yo can rub one out (i figure on about 15 sec boot time, including bios)
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Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
32711 posts
yer, i got a vertex2, no dramas either
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
14864 posts
+1 vertex 2 in 2 comps at home and no issue
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Raven
Melbourne, Victoria
5821 posts
Yeah, my two 60GB Vertex 2s are fine, no problems there. It's the Vertex 3 that I want to throw out a window.
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Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
32712 posts
yer, ive had issues now with cosair force 3's and ocz agility's
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