Hey guys, Looking to make a build for the first time. I'm tired of my laptop and in fact it's screwing up with me when I'm gaming in some games ... and no one can find out what the issue is.
Before I explain I should probably name which country I'm in for pricing/currency purposes, I'm in Australia.
I got a friend on Steam who advised this build .... it's meant to be a top of the line gaming rig ... what do you guys think?
[B][U]Specs:[/U][/B]
- H70 water cooler
- Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 mother board
- 1 TB seagate HDD
- HAF X full tower case with one led fan 180 mm and a 240 mm fan on the side with a see through glass
- i7 2600K cpu
- window 7 home premium 64 bit
- G.Skill [ Ripjaws ] DDR3 1600mhz 8gb rams. in a kit with 2 4gb rams
- GTX 560 Ti
- Coolermaster extreme 700 W power supply
He says total value is: $1,677
Pretty reasonable price if it really is an awesome gaming system.
A website to one of the stuff he was talking about:
[url]http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6653[/url]
Reason:
My laptop is shutting down on it's own without warning when I'm playing a few games. It seems it only happens when playing games with high end graphics because it doesn't happen when I'm playing games like Team Fortress 2 or Spiral Knights. I've been to the Technical Support section and no one can seem to find out what it is. I'm not asking for help, but just ... should I spend money repairing my laptop or just make a new build? Seeing as it only happens when I'm gaming, for everything else it runs fine, and I won't be gaming with my laptop if I do make a build, I don't see a reason to repair the laptop just yet ... or should I?
For a starters, for gaming you don't need a 2600k, get a 2500k (no performance difference for gaming).
Get an F3 spinpoint 1tb, arguably the best spindle drive.
Do you need all the room from the HAF X? It's a huge case, you'll barely fill a fraction of it honestly, get a mid tower like a 922, R3, 650D on that budget.
Also, the H70 is alright but you might aswell get the H100 or go with a high end heatsink like a NH-D14/Dark rock pro or similar, and I have no idea about Australian economy but on that budget it looks like you can get a GTX 570, again I don't know I could be way off.
Oh and don't overpay for ridiculous ram, heatspreaders are useless and there's no noticeable difference between 1333 and 1600.
if it's just for gaming and nothing that will take advantage of hyperthreading, swap the i7 for an i5 2500k
the savings from that might cover the difference between the 560ti and a 570, or just pocket it
samsung spinpoint F3 for the HDD
NH-D14 for the cooler
if there's cheaper RAM with shorter heatspreaders get those instead, less likely to interfere with CPU heatsinks
assuming you mean [url=http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2991]this PSU[/url], not very good but I can't advise anything else unless I know the site you're using to see prices
if possible give links to the individual parts
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