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[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/9m0fh5F.jpg[/thumb] This'll be my first time for using Intel, 16GB of RAM, running RAID, and using an SSD. I was thinking about also doing water cooling, but that'll wait for another day. When I get enough money I will purchase a graphics card with some oomph.
Why not wait until you have some more money and do a haswell build? If you're planning on doing anything graphically intense than you're probably not going to notice any improvement from whatever you had before, considering how bottle-necked you'll be from the 430.
Full specs?
[QUOTE=taipan;40703704]Full specs?[/QUOTE] It looks like they're in the picture on the bottom left.
[QUOTE=joe_sandwich;40703478]Why not wait until you have some more money and do a haswell build? If you're planning on doing anything graphically intense than you're probably not going to notice any improvement from whatever you had before, considering how bottle-necked you'll be from the 430.[/QUOTE] The processor was given to me. And plus, the new series doesn't show any improvement besides using less power.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;40704027]The processor was given to me. And plus, the new series doesn't show any improvement besides using less power.[/QUOTE] The new series supports a new instruction type and engineering samples are already showing a 10% improvement without final silicon or full use of the memory bus. It's by no means a massive improvement, but it is certainly substantial. There's even rumors that the performance may be greater than expected since intel has been keeping haswell fairly secret. Still, if you were give the processor, there's no arguing with that.
[QUOTE=joe_sandwich;40704073]The new series supports a new instruction type and engineering samples are already showing a 10% improvement without final silicon or full use of the memory bus. It's by no means a massive improvement, but it is certainly substantial. There's even rumors that the performance may be greater than expected since intel has been keeping haswell fairly secret. Still, if you were give the processor, there's no arguing with that.[/QUOTE] Trust me, if all these pieces were purchased by me, I would of just waited for the next series of everything. But a good half of these parts were given to me. SSD, HDD, CPU were all given to me from numerous friends.
Wow thats a shitty GPU. Thank god its temporary.
[QUOTE=taipan;40704183]Wow thats a shitty GPU. Thank god its temporary.[/QUOTE] Lol, yeah, I'm contemplated taking one of my GTX 550 Ti's out of one of my other computers. I have one in my HTPC (Total overkill) and one in my first build.
Great case! I have one myself and love it. It's nice and rugged, it looks good while not being stupid and over the top.
you bought an aftermarket cooler and a locked 3770....
[QUOTE=Flarey;40713090]you bought an aftermarket cooler and a locked 3770....[/QUOTE] I found that kind of silly too. The stock cooler will be more than enough to keep the temps stable on a locked processor. Even with my E5200 I kept using my stock cooler even when overclocking because it tended to be good enough to keep everything stable.
The stock cooler has an annoying wining noise, however a TX3 Evo would have sufficed and not been so heavy. I have a TX3 evo on a i5-3470 and it's much nicer than stock. (And for £20 free delivery who can moan?).
Finished my build. Freaking amazing. I've never seen a computer boot so fast... The aftermarket cooler is just to help cooling in any case, and the processor was given to me. I am able to play with the multiplier in the BIOS though... So I'm not really sure what's the difference between this and the 3770K.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;40721193]Finished my build. Freaking amazing. I've never seen a computer boot so fast... The aftermarket cooler is just to help cooling in any case, and the processor was given to me. I am able to play with the multiplier in the BIOS though... So I'm not really sure what's the difference between this and the 3770K.[/QUOTE] It probably wont stick. Check with cpu-z.
[QUOTE=rhx123;40714090]The stock cooler has an annoying wining noise, however a TX3 Evo would have sufficed and not been so heavy. I have a TX3 evo on a i5-3470 and it's much nicer than stock. (And for £20 free delivery who can moan?).[/QUOTE] I have this CPU cooler too, works perfect to cool down my AMD Phenom II CPU. AMD's stock coolers aren't worth shit. The stock one even had copper pipes, but even monitoring temperatures in the BIOS made the CPU hit 45c idle. Highest temperature I experienced with that thing was 60c or something. This thing I use now makes the CPU hit about 32c idle temperatures, 35c playing Garry's Mod and about 40c when playing some more CPU intensive games.
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