Should I buy a Black Friday computer or build one myself?

ihaveacamaro

New Member
Temperatures are generally lower with liquid cooling, and you won't have to worry about the height of your RAM DIMMs.

Ok I'm going to go ahead with the Asus mobo you recommended and the liquid cooling so I don't have to worry about RAM physical size.

Damn, going a little over the budget but what can you do? There shouldn't be anything else needed right? Because this is maxing out the budget and I wouldn't be able to afford anything else.
 

ihaveacamaro

New Member
Yeah don't get the mATX one, get the ATX one (the Newegg one).

Ok ordered the Mobo from Newegg and found the H50 for better price on Ebay.

I'm just going to stop saying I'm done because everytime I've said that, I've changed something lol :eek:

Hope I don't get killed on shipping two other Mobos back lol
 

ihaveacamaro

New Member
1) With the H50 cooling system, do I need to replace the coolant?

2) And if I have to, how do I do this and how often do I need to?
 

ihaveacamaro

New Member
Finished build!! (Case is on now):

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Full Specs:

Processor:
Intel I5-3570K
IN STORE
$160

Graphics Card:
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready
CrossFireX Support Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102983
$210

Motherboard:
ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131819
$180

Memory:
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231489
$50

Storage:
Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda 7200RPM 3 TB SATA 6 GB/s
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148736
$90

Case:
Thermaltake Chaser MK-I System Cabinet
IN STORE
$120

Power Supply:
CORSAIR Builder Series CX600 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139028
$70

Optical Drive:
ASUS Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 8MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner
BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SUS-_-27135252
$75

Monitor:
Acer S211HL bd 22" Class LED Monitor - 1080p, 1920x1080, 12000000:1 Dynamic, 5ms, VGA, DVI
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=6416892
$115

V7 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse:
IN STORE
$20

CORSAIR Hydro series H50
EBAY
$60

So including tax,

Price Before Rebates: $945

Rebates: $110

Total Build Price: $835

Total Build Price including Monitor, Keyboard and mouse: $970
 

ihaveacamaro

New Member
holycablemanagement.jpg

Good build, but them wires need to be hidden.

Yeah I know, first time newbie over here sucks with the cable management. Unfortunately, some of the cables were kind of short on the Corsair PSU, so I had to make do with them sticking out. Same issue with the H50. That's why it looks so messy :p
 

wolfeking

banned
Something that Coolermaster and subpar OCZ PSUs have taught me is that no cable is ever too short. Just sometimes you have to go shadetree engineer on it to make it work. Assuming it was the EPS, in my sace there are 2 ways to do it. 1. attach cable with the PSU unscrewed, and then ever so gently stretch it to attach to the case. or 2: run the cable under the motherboard.
 

ihaveacamaro

New Member
Something that Coolermaster and subpar OCZ PSUs have taught me is that no cable is ever too short. Just sometimes you have to go shadetree engineer on it to make it work. Assuming it was the EPS, in my sace there are 2 ways to do it. 1. attach cable with the PSU unscrewed, and then ever so gently stretch it to attach to the case. or 2: run the cable under the motherboard.

Apart from looking bad, is there a problem if cables are just left out like mine. I may just leave it until I have much more time to work on it? Already behind on a lot of other stuff so that this computer could be made lol
 

spirit

Moderator
Staff member
Yeah if the cables are just laying around they can restrict airflow and dust settles on them.
 
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