Building a gaming rig, how do the parts look?

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jaykay098

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I will mostly be using it for iRacing and NR2003, Sims3, FSX, and maybe some smaller games. How does it look, anything you would change?


Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119160

Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD65 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130565

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727

Video card: ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP/2DI/768MD5 GeForce GTX 460
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121390

Hard drive: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

Power supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V v2.2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

CD-ROM: LG Black SATA DVD Burner - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136236

I've decided to go with AMD instead of Intel simply because of price, the games i'll be playing will not need top of the line speed.
 
The MSI P67A-C43 (B3) Socket 1155 Motherboard looks like an okay buy.

I would get this processor instead of the Core i5 2500K:

Intel Core i5 2400 Sandy Bridge 3.1 gigahertz (3.4 gigahertz Turbo Boost) Quad-Core Processor - $190
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...074&cm_re=core_i5_2400-_-19-115-074-_-Product

One person said this about the MSI P67A-C43 (B3) motherboard:

Do yourself a favor and immediately turn off everything in the Green Power BIOS menu. I went through 2 days of hassle trying to figure out what in my computer was making a horrid buzzing sound that drove me to near insanity. I finally isolated it to my motherboard and right before returning it I decided to check the BIOS and once I turned off the Green Power and the buzzing sound was gone!
 
Fine build and as for PSU I would try the XFX 750Watt black edition,which is a seasonic unit.The Corsair is fine too but the XFX is better.And 2GB is right about 4GB of RAM since most games are 32bit so they won't utilize the extra memory.Then the Asrock and Gigabyte both the boards look good.I would also get an aftermarket HSF like the TRUE or the CM V6GT or the Noctua NH-D14. But remember that all of these are huge.But you won't have a problem with your case since it is sterically unbounded.Also the F4 drives are pretty fast and will do good in gaming.
 
Thanks for the tips, im pretty excited about this project. I'm going to see how the stock HSF works but if the temps start to climb i'll definitely be looking into a new one.

This is gonna be a monster compared to this old desktop i have sitting there, can't wait! I'll be taking pics once the items are received and the build starts. I'm sure i'll be asking lots of questions too haha.
 
Just a note here that 4GB of memory is better to have and is barely more expensive that 2GB at the moment. Games like Crysis, GTA4 and ArmA 2 are all 64-bit aware and will happily eat 2GB of RAM on their own. I nearly max out my 4GB running ArmA 2 for a couple of hours, and the same for GTA4.
 
linkin said:
Just a note here that 4GB of memory is better to have and is barely more expensive that 2GB at the moment. Games like Crysis, GTA4 and ArmA 2 are all 64-bit aware and will happily eat 2GB of RAM on their own. I nearly max out my 4GB running ArmA 2 for a couple of hours, and the same for GTA4.
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Yes i will be putting 4GB of ram in.
 
mihir said:
Fine build and as for PSU I would try the XFX 750Watt black edition,which is a seasonic unit.The Corsair is fine too but the XFX is better.And 2GB is right about 4GB of RAM since most games are 32bit so they won't utilize the extra memory.Then the Asrock and Gigabyte both the boards look good.I would also get an aftermarket HSF like the TRUE or the CM V6GT or the Noctua NH-D14. But remember that all of these are huge.But you won't have a problem with your case since it is sterically unbounded.Also the F4 drives are pretty fast and will do good in gaming.
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And 2GB is right about 4GB of RAM

I am really sorry about the above ambiguous statement.I meant 2048megabytes the user is right about getting 4GB instead of 8G.
I can see where linkin would have gotten confused and its my bad.I nver meant 2GB of memory is right.
 
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