Help With My First Build

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Daniel_S

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I want a good all round desktop for under £850 and came up with this. I want to be able to video edit and play games like FM13 and Minecraft.

Case-AeroCool Strike-X One Mid tower £30
PSU- Pulse 600W PSU 120mm Silent Red Fan £13
CPU- Intel i7 3370k £229
Cooler- Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition TWIN PACK Case fan - pack of 2 £17
Motherboard- ASRock Z77 Pro3 £75
RAM- Corsair 2x8GB £50
Hard Drive – Samsung 1TB £54
Optical Drive - SAMSUNG SH-S222BB/RSMS Internal SATA DVD Writer £20
Graphic Card - Sapphire RADEON HD 7870 - GHz Edition £185
Monitor - Philips 196V3LSB V-line 18.5 inch LED Monitor £75
Mouse- Hama Gaming Mouse "uRage" - 6-btn Mouse - Wired - USB £15
Speakers- Genius SP S110 PC multimedia speakers - wired - 1 Watt £8
Keyboard- Emprex 5105GU Gaming Keyboard £19
OS Windows 8 - £150

Will this be any good? and have you got any improvments?
 
Start with the all important PSU. A reliable one will cost 5X as much as the one selected. Possibly save on the cpu if you don't need that much HT. Get a better ps and mobo.
 
I'm in the same boat on building a computer under £850 but I would need to program instead of edit software! :-)
 
Case is crap. Has a higher risk of:
Breaking
Cutting your Hand
Bad cable managment

PSU is crap. Has a MUCH higher risk of:
Blowing and taking components with it.

Board is just okay. Has a higher risk of:
Bad RMA.
Breaking.

If gaming, i7 is useless. Only extra feature pretty much is HT which only helps in video rendering, cad, etc.

Solutions:
Go with i5 3570K for CPU
Go with Gigabyte UD3H Z77 for motherboard
Go with OCZ ModXStream for PSU
Go with any case from Corsair, NZXT, or Bitfenix. Some from antec or cooler master.

And, Robb, make a thread if you want us to help you. That is threadjacking saying you want help to in his thread.
 
byteninja2 said:
Case is crap. Has a higher risk of:
Breaking
Cutting your Hand
Bad cable managment

PSU is crap. Has a MUCH higher risk of:
Blowing and taking components with it.

Board is just okay. Has a higher risk of:
Bad RMA.
Breaking.

If gaming, i7 is useless. Only extra feature pretty much is HT which only helps in video rendering, cad, etc.

Solutions:
Go with i5 3570K for CPU
Go with Gigabyte UD3H Z77 for motherboard
Go with OCZ ModXStream for PSU
Go with any case from Corsair, NZXT, or Bitfenix. Some from antec or cooler master.

And, Robb, make a thread if you want us to help you. That is threadjacking saying you want help to in his thread.
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i7 is not useless gaming, just overkill. There are several games out that do use 6 threads quite well. BF3 and FSx are 2 of them. Have not really tested many more to be sure.

D3H, UD3H, UD5H, or any of the UP series will be very good. Asus is just fine also. The original board is not even okay. It is flat low end, and under equipped for a modern computer.

OCZ modstream is not the best. Not even close. If you want modular, go full modular. If you don't want full modular, then don't get modular at all.
 
You know what wolfe? Half modualur is better then non modualur, and most people would say the same. And, a i7 might give you a 7 FPS increase on the most heavily threading games, not worth the extra $100. I didnt say the OCZ was the best! I said it was better the the CX 600 because they are not known to whine and are somewhat modualur.
 
You still have extra cables to hide, and the quality of the corsair will smash OCZ over the head. Keep suggesting it all you want, but semi modular is useless, and saves very little cable mess at all.

Microcenter saves you near to that $100. And the i7 can run circles around the i5 at other task. If all you are going to do is run games, then don't waste your money. $299 will get you a gaming system that will play every game out at decent settings. If you want a computer, that will sometimes game, then an i7 is more decent than an i5.
 
PSU Corsair Builder Series CX600 Power supply 45
Case BitFenix Merc Alpha Mid tower 32
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H 106
CPU Intel Core i5 3.4 GHz Processor 160
RAM Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 48
Graphics Card Sapphire RADEON HD 7870 170
HD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Internal hard drive 50
OS Windows 7 70
Monitor LG E2242C Full HD 22" LED Monitor 100
Optical Drive Samsung SH-224BB 12
Other 50
843
Reckon this would be worth it?
 
byteninja2 said:
And, Robb, make a thread if you want us to help you. That is threadjacking saying you want help to in his thread.
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I have made a thread a while ago stating the same thing, was only making a point :-P this is kinda useful to me aswell, no harm done.
 
No wolfe, corsair and OCZ tend to be in the same quality when in the same price range. And the CX series isnt to great like I said, the OCZ will beat it.
 
It is complete bullshit byte. The modstream line is not a quality unit. And it can not even supply the power that it claims. 600 watt unit only does 42 amps @ 504 watts. The ZT, and actual quality unit from them does 750 watts on the 12 volt rail while claiming 750 watts.

Corsair are higher quality than 99% of OCZ. OCZ does own PC PAC now though, and they dropped a slight bit in quality too.




If you want an OCZ, get a ZT. If you want a quality PSU, get Corsair, Antec, or Seasonic.
 
The ZT line is just as good as the corsair line in that price range, same with the ZX and ZS. Okay, I beleve you on the modxstream. But the CX series isn't to good anyways. And OP, make sure you get a i5 3570K, not just any i5.
 
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Daniel_S said:
PSU Corsair Builder Series CX600 Power supply 45
Case BitFenix Merc Alpha Mid tower 32
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H 106
CPU Intel Core i5 3.4 GHz Processor 160
RAM Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 48
Graphics Card Sapphire RADEON HD 7870 170
HD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Internal hard drive 50
OS Windows 7 70
Monitor LG E2242C Full HD 22" LED Monitor 100
Optical Drive Samsung SH-224BB 12
Other 50
843
Reckon this would be worth it?
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That's a much better build there. I assume the i5 is a 3570K, yes?

I'd still get a Corsair TX 650 though, but the CX 600 will work for you very nicely. :)
 
OCZ the ZS is made by Cirtec
OCZ the ZT/ZX is made by Great Wall

Corsair CX is made by CWT, think the 400W is made by Seasonic.
 
StrangleHold said:
OCZ the ZS is made by Cirtec
OCZ the ZT/ZX is made by Great Wall

Corsair CX is made by CWT, think the 400W is made by Seasonic.
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Just a simple question. Where do you find the OEM of specific PSUs?

And to what we were talking about earlier in this thread, I have no idea who makes the Modstream pro line, but having used one, I fully can not suggest it to anyone. The lines are too short on the EPS and PCIe, and it does not really save any cable space at all being semimodular. The external metal case of it feels flemsy, like a 1/16 in aluminum or similar. Just does not feel like quality. The power delivery is also not that great, iirc it is only bronze, maybe just 80+ w/o a colour to it. Either way, 504 watt 12v on a 600 watt supply seems like cheating when there are supplies out there that get really close to or exactly 600 watts.
 
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