Recently, my 7 year old rig died. The motherboard fried out along with one of the hard drives. Rather than trying to fix it this time around, I decided that it's about time I replace it.
Here's what the proposed rig currently looks like, with links to the website I'll be ordering parts from. (UMart is about as good as it gets in Australia, don't go "oh wow prices are stoopid")
[B]Motherboard[/B]
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H Intel H67 Socket 1155
[URL]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=106&bid=2&sid=70803[/URL]
From what I understand, Intel recently issued a recall on all Sandy Bridge chipsets due to a manufacturing fault. ([URL]http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall[/URL])
This only affects the motherboards with the 1155 sockets, so I'm thinking about simply buying it now, then getting a free replacement from Gigabyte when they release the fixed motherboards. From what the article says, I won't notice any difference in the few months between now and the fix.
[B]CPU[/B]
Intel Core i7 2600 Processor LGA1155 3.4GHz
[URL]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=13&bid=2&sid=71145[/URL]
+ Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Grease
[URL]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=54&bid=2&sid=1473[/URL]
[B]RAM[/B]
G Skill 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1333MHZ PC3-10666 CL9(8GBRL)
[URL]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=153&bid=2&sid=58491[/URL]
[B]Case[/B]
Antec Nine Hundred Tower Gaming Case, No PSU
[URL]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=139&bid=2&sid=20387[/URL]
The case is kind of important to me because where I live, it regularly gets up to 40 centigrade (105 F) for weeks at a time, so a case with good cooling is a must. I don't plan on overclocking or any other shit too.
[B]Total: $729 AUD[/B]
What I'm salvaging from my dead PC:
Zotac nVidia 260GTX GPU (recent aquisition before the PC pooped out)
Two Western Digital 400GB SATA HDDs (Will be putting them in a RAID1 for data protection)
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer soundcard
CoolerMaster 650W PSU (Will this be enough power?)
Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit (Getting for free, IT student benefits)
I have about $250 more to spare for extra bells and whistles (but I wouldn't mind saving it either unless the benefits gained by spending it are worth it).
So does it look like a decent build to you techs? Did I get anything wrong? I won't be suprised if I did, it's only the third rig I've ever built.
What are you doing that needs any more than 4GB of memory? You should get 4GB of 1600 speed instead
[editline]7th February 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=153&bid=2&sid=51712[/url]
Same stuff that's in my PC right now.
650w will be more than enough.
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;27924421]What are you doing that needs any more than 4GB of memory? You should get 4GB of 1600 speed instead
[editline]7th February 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=153&bid=2&sid=51712[/url]
Same stuff that's in my PC right now.
650w will be more than enough.[/QUOTE]
4GB isn't a massive amount to start with, even simple things that i do can use up to ~3.9ish
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;27924421]What are you doing that needs any more than 4GB of memory? You should get 4GB of 1600 speed instead
[editline]7th February 2011[/editline]
[url]http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=153&bid=2&sid=51712[/url]
Same stuff that's in my PC right now.
650w will be more than enough.[/QUOTE]
I use Photoshop frequently and occasional video processing. I also avidly play ArmA 2.
You don't really need a i7. A i5-2500k would be cheaper and probably outrun it.
Getting an i5-2500k and overclocking it is better than the i7 by quite a lot.
ArmA 2 doesn't really use that much RAM, it's mainly HDD and CPU intensive.
[QUOTE=Armotekma;27924817]4GB isn't a massive amount to start with, even simple things that i do can use up to ~3.9ish[/QUOTE]
Then theres something wrong with your PC. I use no more than 800MB when doing the simplest things.
And I only have 2GBs total.
[QUOTE=ghostofme;28006078]Then theres something wrong with your PC. I use no more than 800MB when doing the simplest things.
And I only have 2GBs total.[/QUOTE]
When I have iTunes, Chrome, Word, and Powerpoint up it won't go above 1.75 GBs for me.
[editline]12th February 2011[/editline]
Even with ARMA 2 or Crysis up it doesn't go above 3 GBs.
I ran Borderlands, Mafia 2, Minecraft, Minecraft Server and Metro 2033 while I played GTA IV and was detonating 16,000 TNT in Minecraft. I used 9.6 GB RAM. You're not gonna need more than 6 GB.
I don't know why you would do that but that's a good point
Me neither, I made myself believe I was exercising my RAM.
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