New to PC builds

L

Lindquist

New Member
I am going to try and build a PC for the first time ever and just wanted to make sure I am buying parts that are all compatible together. Just want to make sure im not wasting my money on parts I cant use. The build I want is:

NZXT Phantom 410 Mid tower

Corsair Hx Professional Series 750w

Intel Core i5 2500k

Corsair Vengeance 8Gb (2 x 4Gb) DDR3 1600 240 Pin (PC3 12800)

EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 560 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16

ASUS P8Z77-V LE LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Samsung by Seagate Spinpoint 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

And windows 7 home premium for OS
And a optical drive TBD
And SSD TBD

open for thoughts suggestions and any advice would be greatly appreciative
mostly used for college and browsing and some gaming like Call of Duty
 
Pretty good. One thing is your PSU is overkill. You could get away with a quality 550-650w.

I would suggest a CPU cooler to overclock your CPU.

If all you're doing gaming wise is Call of Duty, that video card is fine.
 
OK thanks. I will find a smaller PSU.
So like a aftermarket CPU fan? Like Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler. Do aftermarket fans come with thermal compound or do I have to buy it separate?
Anything I should buy that doesnt come with any of the other components that i would need? or that would help with my build?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it
 
Just download all the drivers and install them all.

One thing I will say, within the next few days, Ivy Bridge is coming along to replace Sandy Bridge (ie - the 2500K's replacement is coming). It's going to be called the i5 3570K, so I'd recommend waiting a few days for the 3570K and get that instead. Should overclock further than a 2500K and run cooler too. Two benefits in one! :)

Everything else is good, but get the Corsair CX600 PSU for your system, should be more than enough for a GTX 560. I'd also advise dropping the 560 all together and getting a Radeon 6870 instead, it's faster and about the same sort of price. :)
 
I chose to go with the corsair enthusiast TX650 modular, so that I only have to use the cables that I need.
I was reading up on the new Intel i5 3570k and it says it comes out on April 29th so I will definitely wait for that to come out (its only a couple more dollars)
As for the videocard i was looking at newegg and alot of the Radeon HD 6870's had quite a few bad reviews. I know everything will have bad reviews it just a little too much for me. I will save the videocard for last and do more research.
Will the new Intel i5 3570k run without any problems with the motherboard I want to get (earlier post), I know the socket is the same but i have not read a whole lot about the new i5 and you really cant read reviews if its not out yet
 
If the 3550 is anything like the i7 variant, it may not be that much more of a clocker than a current model i5, may not be worth waiting, toms hardware and several others have reviewed it, found it got really hot near 4.7ghz, and they had to back down to 4.4 to be safe at times, might be bad batches or something, so who knows.
 
probably have to wait for them to go on the market and see what other people say about it. I will probably just go with the i5 2500k cause i know it will work great and I am not a hardcore gamer but I do play alot of Call of Duty:MW3
 
vistakid10 said:
Just download all the drivers and install them all.

One thing I will say, within the next few days, Ivy Bridge is coming along to replace Sandy Bridge (ie - the 2500K's replacement is coming). It's going to be called the i5 3570K, so I'd recommend waiting a few days for the 3570K and get that instead. Should overclock further than a 2500K and run cooler too. Two benefits in one! :)

Everything else is good, but get the Corsair CX600 PSU for your system, should be more than enough for a GTX 560. I'd also advise dropping the 560 all together and getting a Radeon 6870 instead, it's faster and about the same sort of price. :)
Click to expand...

Actually, that may or may not be true. Current reviews of the Ivy bridge CPUs show that they have no more overclock headroom than the Sandy bridge counterpart. You will have to wait for more reviews once the actual chip is released to determine whether or not Ivy Bridge is worth it.
 
Well I'm getting an Ivy Bridge CPU within the next few days (Dad is getting a 3570K, ordering it tonight probably) so I will tell you what it's like then. Apparently you can hit around 4.8GHz at little over 1.2v, so if that's true, that's a better voltage:frequency ratio than SB.

Ivy Bridge has already been released in the UK. :)
 
Yes I know there's not much of a performance difference, but these should theoretically overclock better than Sandy Bridge, even if they don't overclock much better.
 
Theoretical doesn't really hold true for Ivy Bridge. They may have lowered the die, but it, from the source, did not significantly lower the heat consumption.
 
apparently the ivy chips get hoter faster than sandy bridge when ocing, because they use some wierdo less toxic stuff in them or sumthing
 
Adam said:
apparently the ivy chips get hoter faster than sandy bridge when ocing, because they use some wierdo less toxic stuff in them or sumthing
Click to expand...

Never heard that one. From what i have read, since its at 22nm. the smaller die size is having a hard time dissipating heat.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top