Building a rig for my brother need some advice.

[WarFox101]

Hi fellas I'm building a new 1156 build for my brother and am not to familiar with the i5 CPU's. I was thinking of getting a Core i5-655K Clarkdale 3.2GHz. And just overclocking the heck out of it. My Brother is a Photographer so hes going to be doing a lot of photo rendering. I wanted him to go with a 1366 platform but its a little out of his price range. I'm thinking a 1156 I5 or I7 will do him well. What do you all think? Any suggestion would be helpful, Thanks in advance.

 

[tinytomlogan]

the 655k is pants tbh they dont like BCLK. So either get a 760 or once you got beyond that you can get an i7 950 for £225 and a cheap baord like the Gigabyte UD3 X58 for £150.

Really isnt worth messing about with the Kseries chips they are pretty crap.

 

[WarFox101]

Well Tom i just watched your Intel i5 760 Quad Core Review and I have to say it looks like a great little overclocker. And it seems its just what we need for my brothers build. Thank you for taking the time.

Also i have a board Ive picked out what you guys think?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128457

 

[aliG]

Well Tom i just watched your Intel i5 760 Quad Core Review and I have to say it looks like a great little overclocker. And it seems its just what we need for my brothers build. Thank you for taking the time.

Also i have a board Ive picked out what you guys think?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128457

You should choose MOBO with ATX PSU support instead of mATX, DDR3 support is alright. If he is a photographer he will use a lot USB ports, so i recommend to buy mobo with USB 3.0 ports (they are multiple times faster than 2.0 ports) And by the way dimensions of motherboard (mobo) are 9.6" x 8.27" so you should be carefull to choose (or you have one?) case. Standart dimensions of motherboard are 12.0" x 9.6". Smaller case - less cooling

 

[tinytomlogan]

Id deffo go ATX with a decent cheap case like the Xigmatek Utgard or the CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced.

 

[alienware]

The H55 boards whilst cheaper are nowhere near as functional as the P55 boards.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=p55_motherboard-_-13-131-604-_-Product

For example is only $10 more.

 

[WarFox101]

The H55 boards whilst cheaper are nowhere near as functional as the P55 boards.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=p55_motherboard-_-13-131-604-_-Product

For example is only $10 more.

AlienALX I think I love you man you found a great board. Up to 2200 OC on the memory 16GB... Loaded with usb 2.0 connectivity.

 

[Tony]

What's his budget?

Here is a good start.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/systems/how_to_build_a_600_gaming_pc/1

With a budget system for photographer or a photoshop(cs5) user. I would look into getting a nvidia gpu. This might be out of his budget a bit. But i myself am a heavy photoshop user and there times that i hit over 2GB of ram usage. I later moved on to a GTX 470 and my ram usage was low and so it ran much faster due to everything be rendered in realtime on my GPU

I personally would go with a med end computer with a High end GPU.

Anything cs5 related will need a ton of ram 6 is imo barely cutting it. But if you brother isn't a 'professional' photoshopper 4GB should be plenty.

If he isn't even going to be using adobe products. Then i would look into processor 2.8ghz range(a i5 750 isn't a bad proccy for the job, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215), I would avoid overclocking, but if he/you must then go for it. Nothing wrong with it. Just its a long process to make sure it stable. Having a stable computer is key when doing any sort of rendering. In most cases it could act as a stabilizer test. It works your computer hard and for long hours.

 

[WarFox101]

Thanks a lot guys i got some great info and advice. I will let you all know how the build turns out and a final parts list again thanks.