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Getting into PC gaming and wanting to make a custom build.

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime

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Hey everyone, thought I'd make this thread to get help, advice and ideas on my custom build and what will be compatible and go right with it. What parts will be efficient, good and for the best price. I guess we'll start with the power supply. What would be the better choice to go with. SeaSonic or corsair? I might be looking into a 600WAT PSU. I am rather new to this and have done research so please forgive me. :p Thanks!
 
Thanks. If I do go for a 600 W would that be of any harm to the components? If anything a 500 W will do. Also have an intel i3 ivy bridge processor at 3.4 GHZ on my list. I'll check out the link sometime thought I'd post here to get some advice here and what's efficient and all. CrossFire huh? You run an AMD system right?
 
Nice. I think once I narrow down my PSU and processor questions I should be good to go. Been putting in the hours researching this stuff so hopefully I will know what is and isn't compatible. I recently looked at Steam and fell in love and decided I would not go with the Xbox One or the PS4 as PC is looking to be the much better option in my eyes.
 
Yep Steam is pretty cool,I've got a Steam account too.
I also have Origin(EA) account too.
I ues 3 monitors to play games with.
 
Nice. Multi Monitor must have some great benefits when it comes to gaming. I might go look at some benchmarks of that GTX 650 again and compare PSU's and all. I appreciate your help and nice PC btw. What was your budget when you built yours?
 
why would you drop $3000 into pc? Why do you need a water cooling for a stock cpu? And what kind of advice that 500w psu will be enough? He should use the PSU calculator to find whats going to ve good enough.

You can get same performance for much less money spent.
 
Well, just looking for advice in general and the nice thing with PC is that you can always choose how much you want to spend when building your own. :)
To each his own. However much you spend as long as you're happy with your PC is all that matters. :) He might have his CPU overclocked along with a good GPU to use water cooling. I'm going to have around $500 or so for my PC. Just looking at parts, reviews, and how efficient they are. Any advice is quite welcome and would anyone recommend a SeaSonic PSU or Corsair? I've been reading and quite a number of people are choosing SeaSonic and wanted others opinions here. :)
 
If at all you ever plan on upgrading your GPU to high end, keep in mind most high end GPU's carry a 600W Minimum, and that's only for single card. For this reason I bought an 850W Modular PSU. Yes, it's overkill ATM, but won't be in the next handful of months. I'm waiting for black friday/xmas deals to hit and I'm going to try an nab a an ATI 7970 Ghz Ed., which carries said 600W minimum.

I'm also looking at migrating from my HAF912 to a HAF X.

FWIW I use a thermaltake PSU, and it's been nothing but pleasant. Quiet, reliable, and it just works. Plus the modular setup is beyond fantastic. I don't think I'll ever go back to a non modular PSU.

Here's what I bought: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BDJ58C/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Also, when you're shopping parts, pcpartspicker.com is a beyond helpful tool for fast price shopping.
 
I'm always suspicious of water cooling a PC, basically because I wouldn't really want to trust made in China plumbing in close proximity to electricity.
 
mikedt said:
I'm always suspicious of water cooling a PC, basically because I wouldn't really want to trust made in China plumbing in close proximity to electricity.
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I always go air as well. Eeeking out an extra 5%-10% of barely noticeable performance isn't worth frying a whole setup IMO.

My 3570k OC's just fine @ 4.2ghz with a hyper 212 evo, temps are low.
 
One place you do NOT want to skimp is on the PSU. A poor quality unit (or one that can't provide enough power) can send you on a wild goose chase to sort out errors that are a result of poor power quality or not enough power. I run an 850w PSU in my desktop, though that's only because Thermaltake didn't have any of my 750w units on-hand when I needed to have it replaced.

AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE
Asus Sabertooth 990fx
8 GB OCZ BE memory
OCZ Vertex 3
2x 1 TB WD BE
1x 2 TB WD BE
EVGA GeForce GTX470 (a little behind but I'm also falling out of gaming)

This is likely my last build unless I build a media center machine, but I may also explore just converting this one to a media center rig.
 
Alongside the wattage required by the entire system you should also be considering the amperage your chosen GPU requires, and ensuring that whichever PSU you decide on can deliver it. That's one good reason to 'over-spec' the PSU. :)
 
For PSUs, I've always foudn that you usually can't go wrong with most things from Corsair, XFX and Antec, or Seasonic. At the very minimum, it should be rated 80PLUS Bronze, and I'd say it should be featured on overclock.net's recommended psu list :P

I've foudn that you get more bang for buck with AMD, but I was told that for gaming, you can't go wrong with a decent intel CPU.

The 650Ti is a good card, and although SLI might not be the best option, I've seen benchmarks showing 2x 650TI BOOST cards run almost as good as a 680! :D
 
Good advice here, thanks everyone! I was doing a bit of research and decided I will go for the SeaSonic M12II 620. It's also 80 plus bronze certified too. I suppose later I will post a build of what all my parts are if anyone doesn't mind having a look at it. Thanks again. :)

 
mikedt said:
I'm always suspicious of water cooling a PC, basically because I wouldn't really want to trust made in China plumbing in close proximity to electricity.
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Wouldn't touch one!

A former colleague had so much trouble with the water cooling system in a high end (not personal build) machine that he wound up ripping it out and putting in an air system, despite that costing him a couple of hundred quid. Even sending the machine back for a warranty repair only got the water system going again for a few weeks.

Water cooling works fine in IBM (aka the world's biggest plumbing company) mainframes, but it seems most PC systems just aren't up to snuff.
 
Metroid Prime said:
Good advice here, thanks everyone! I was doing a bit of research and decided I will go for the SeaSonic M12II 620. It's also 80 plus bronze certified too. I suppose later I will post a build of what all my parts are if anyone doesn't mind having a look at it. Thanks again. :)
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Sounds good to me! (and the OCN guide)

Good luck on the rest of the build!
 
Thanks guys! Here's my build so far tell me all what you think about it. :)

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK

Processor: Intel Core i3-2340 Ivy Bridge 3.4 Ghz

Case: COOLER MASTER HAF series RC-912

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB DDR3 (1600)

GPU: EVGA Geforce 650 1GB (NVIDIA)

PSU: SeaSonic M12II 620W Bronze

Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Blue 500 GB

Optical Drive: ASUS DRW-24F1ST

On a side note: Is ASUS a good, efficient, and reliable mobo manufacturer? And is the one I have listed a good one? Thanks.
 
unnamedny said:
why would you drop $3000 into pc? Why do you need a water cooling for a stock cpu? And what kind of advice that 500w psu will be enough? He should use the PSU calculator to find whats going to ve good enough.

You can get same performance for much less money spent.
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Was not stock,Had it overclocked
 
SiempreTuna said:
Wouldn't touch one!

A former colleague had so much trouble with the water cooling system in a high end (not personal build) machine that he wound up ripping it out and putting in an air system, despite that costing him a couple of hundred quid. Even sending the machine back for a warranty repair only got the water system going again for a few weeks.

Water cooling works fine in IBM (aka the world's biggest plumbing company) mainframes, but it seems most PC systems just aren't up to snuff.
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I know about Chinese made plumbing after the central heating exploded and gave me a hot bath while still in bed. I just wouldn't want the same thing happening inside my PC.

Seems to me PC water cooling is mainly for show. Transparent hoses, put some fluorescent dye in the water, illuminate it....Oh look at my rig, isn't it cool!! TBH I'd rather spend the money on a tropical aquarium.

Want to cool the CPU and GPU properly try liquid nitrogen. Do some serious overclocking.
 
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