HELP! Need help with building a PC!

spirit

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I'd go for that XFX 850W you said about above. As it's only £3 more than the 750W, it makes sense to get the extra 100 watts.
 

SilentRabbit

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Yes you can use one monitor with two graphics cards, but you cannot run two monitors off one NVIDIA graphics card. This is where AMD are better, you can use Eyefinity with the Radeons, but as you already want a 570 and the 570 is a great card I'm not going to suggest you change it.

Hate to cause confusion, and I understand this input may not be useful to the OP but Im running two monitors off my GTX 560 ti, so unless its a typo or ive read it wrong, huh?

You can only run one monitor if you have SLI mode enabled yes, sadly.

Also, before the 680, SLI was the only way to get triple monitors with Nvidia cards, (Dunno about AMD) The 680 (and 670?) is capable of triple monitors, maybe even quad, if Im correct.

Again sorry to pick up on oldish news but just clarifying, if im wrong, please say :)

Oh, and sorry to pick on you jas :(
 

spirit

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I recommended the Seagate over the WD originally because it was faster (7200 RPM vs 5900 RPM), but then the OP said he had heard people complaining about it and would rather not buy it, so the WD was the other choice.

Hate to cause confusion, and I understand this input may not be useful to the OP but Im running two monitors off my GTX 560 ti, so unless its a typo or ive read it wrong, huh?
Yeah sorry about that, typo. I used to run two monitors from an NVIDIA card. *facepalm*. :D I meant you can only run one monitor with SLI, but now I realise you can run more than one. When SLI was first introduced you could only run one monitor but with the newer drivers you can run more than one.
 

SilentRabbit

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Yeah sorry about that, typo. I used to run two monitors from an NVIDIA card. *facepalm*. :D I meant you can only run one monitor with SLI, but now I realise you can run more than one. When SLI was first introduced you could only run one monitor but with the newer drivers you can run more than one.

Haha, no probs man, just checking ;)
 

rishmace

New Member
Thanks for the clarification guys and I have decided to go with the WD Caviar Green Drive, is there a huge difference between 5900RPM and 7200RPM also i will add another HDD probably in christmas so I could just buy a 7200RPM HDD for that. Thanks for all the help guys and especially Vistakid, you have helped me the most in other threads too, I greatly appreciate your help, here is probably the final build.
http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/9VZz
 

Benny Boy

Active Member
Thanks for the clarification guys and I have decided to go with the WD Caviar GreenDrive http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/9VZz
Also could anyone tell me if all these parts will work together 100%?
A desktop pc is no place for a 5900 rpm drive imo. And certainly not for C:\
If you don't want WD BLACK FALX or FAEX or Seagate 7200.12, Get Samsung F3 since it's the fastest anyways.

Everything else looks good.
 
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spirit

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Thanks for the clarification guys and I have decided to go with the WD Caviar Green Drive, is there a huge difference between 5900RPM and 7200RPM also i will add another HDD probably in christmas so I could just buy a 7200RPM HDD for that. Thanks for all the help guys and especially Vistakid, you have helped me the most in other threads too, I greatly appreciate your help, here is probably the final build.
http://pcpartpicker.com/uk/p/9VZz
No problem regarding the help. :)

Just a couple of things to point out. I agree with Benny above, you definitely don't want Windows installed on a 5900 RPM HDD, go for a 7200 RPM disk definitely. There is a large difference in speed, especially when booting up and shutting down Windows.

As you're using liquid cooling, you can easily populate all 4 RAM bays with full-height DIMMs, so I'd ditch the XMS3 RAM and go for Corsair Vengeance or G.Skill RipJaws-X 1600MHAz DIMMs. The Vengeance and RipJaws-X RAM are better than the XMS3. You should be able to find them on PC Parts Picker, but here are some Novatech links.

RipJaws-X http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/...dr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/f3-12800cl9d-8gbxl.html (get two of these 8GB kits)
Vengeance http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/cmz8gx3m2a1600c9.html (get two of these 8GB kits)

Other than those things, everything looks good. :good:
 

rishmace

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Sorry if i made a mistake somewhere, i am going to install the os and game saves in the SSD which i am buying very soon in a local store and the HDD will only be for storage.
 
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