• Ideas for my next build (Phenom II/5850)
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Ok I have made many many threads on computer part builds but due to money not working out/extreme jumps in technology they all are obsolete. (e.g.: core i5/ati 5800/shit like that) I have the following and do not need to buy them unless I wish to add more/upgrade that aswell: Hitachi 640GB HDD, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 24bit SE, 5 port USB PCI card and many DVD-RW Drives (Black) My current rig consists of the following: [quote] AMD Athlon x2 6000+ SLi'd 9600gt 512mb 3GB DDR2 Ram 500GB HDD [/quote] And I want my next build to blow this out of the water My next build I want to last many years (longer than 2years) and hold up against tough games Budget = £500-600 for CPU/Mobo/GPU/PSU/Case Ideas: Motherboard: [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159000]Sapphire PURE CrossFireX PC-AM2RX780 770 Socket AM2+ 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard[/url] CPU: [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155714]AMD Phenom II X4 940 3GHz Socket AM2+ 6MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor[/url] GPU: [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175124]Sapphire HD 5850 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card[/url] PSU: [url=http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161664#]Antec EarthWatts 750W Modular PSU - 80plus Certified 9x SATA 4x PCI-E[/url] They add up to £488 w/o a Case I dont know much about cases, which is best for cooling/best cable management possibilities/best price/decent build quality/etc etc. I do however wish for the lights/fans (if any) are red as blue lights would look out of place in a red colour room (yes I have to have everything matching) if not I would just buy some replacement fans that have the red led's and put them in the case instead of blue fans. So could someone reccomend me some of the best cases for this type of build (window prefered)? (my current case is some gerneric OTT "gamer" case) Thermal Paste + CPU fan, would I need oen if I am planning on overlocking this CPU to 3.6Ghz and over if possible? Recommendations? I would be gaming at 1920x1080 (or 3x 1920 x 1080 if I buy a 3rd monitor and then do the ati eyefinity shiz over all 3 screens instead of triplehead2go) Games: [quote] All Valve games GTA IV World Of Warcraft UT3 F.E.A.R 2 CoD WaW Bioshock (so I can finally play through it all on high at my native res without fuckbad lag :dance:) [/quote] How is my choices for parts? is there any thing I should change to? PS Do I void warrenty for removing the sticker off a GPU, as I love the look of OEM GPU's PPS Dont worry about OS in teh cost, Im gonna get windows7 for 30£ with the student saver PPPS Sorry for the huge thread to read through I just wanted to get all info on to make it easier on deciding PPPPS Enough of all this PPPPPPS bullcrap
CPU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-253-AM]AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail[/url] MOBO: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-210-GI]Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard[/url] PSU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084]Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)[/url] GPU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-215-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502]Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card[/url] CASE: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-210-GI]Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)[/url] (change this to something else if you want, it's £45) Total : £591.46 including shipping (overclockers.co.uk) Just bring your own RAM with you. [b]Note:[/b] Don't take this build until someone else reviews it for shittyness, I'm not the world's no.1 selector
[QUOTE=leach139;17493657]CPU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-253-AM]AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail[/url] MOBO: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-210-GI]Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard[/url] PSU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084]Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)[/url] GPU: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-215-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502]Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card[/url] CASE: [url=http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-210-GI]Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)[/url] (change this to something else if you want, it's £45) Total : £591.46 including shipping (overclockers.co.uk) Just bring your own RAM with you. [b]Note:[/b] Don't take this build until someone else reviews it for shittyness, I'm not the world's no.1 selector[/QUOTE] That PSU is overkill. Change it for a ~600W and save yourself a few bob.
anyone else got any more/different ideas?
I dont know much about cases, which is best for cooling/best cable management possibilities/best price/decent build quality/etc etc. I do however wish for the lights/fans (if any) are red as blue lights would look out of place in a red colour room (yes I have to have everything matching) if not I would just buy some replacement fans that have the red led's and put them in the case instead of blue fans. So could someone reccomend me some of the best cases for this type of build (window prefered)? (my current case is some gerneric OTT "gamer" case) lol
Learn2quote? I just prefer having my stuff in my room matching so it doesnt look out of place
Does the AM3 3.4Ghz CPU have any more advantages of the normal 3.0/3.2Ghz Quadsin perfomance and overclocking? I mean that is quite a bit of money more to spend just for 400mhz faster clock, unless it has other perks?
[QUOTE=Lance Stormwind;17529379]Does the AM3 3.4Ghz CPU have any more advantages of the normal 3.0/3.2Ghz Quadsin perfomance and overclocking? I mean that is quite a bit of money more to spend just for 400mhz faster clock, unless it has other perks?[/QUOTE] also I was wondering this aswell
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