first descent build in 18 years...

[svinogidiot]

As the title says it have been a while since i last made a build from scratch, and since im not the richest person in the world, i want to hear if the components seems to work well in more experienced eyes. It will be used for both gaming and work, and with my 22" screen the gpu doesnt need to be geforce titan size... I'm not sure yet how much money i will be able spend, so i'll have a core system and extras, so priority is from the top of the list and downwards. I will overclock it a fair bit, depending on how stable and silent i can get the build to be.

The parts i have looked at so far

"CORE"
I5-3570k/I7-3770K depending on amount of cash i can lay my hands on.
Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UP4 TH
4x8 GB corsair vengenace 1866 Mhz
Corsair H100i
Corsair GS700 2013 edition
ASUS HD7950-DC2-3GD5-V2
Nanoxia Deep silence 1

"Nice to have"
Seagate barracuda ST2000DM001 2 TB
Samsung 840 Series MZ-7TD250 250GB
Pioneer BDR-207EBK

take a look and tell me if you would choose othe components for a descent gaming pc thats able to do some serious work aswell.

 

[Cru]

why did you choose that kind of RAM? what kind of work will you be doing on it?

 

[SavageCupcake]

drop down to 8gb of ram or 16 if your doing editing etc. Use the cash you save for the ssd

 

[svinogidiot]

the main reason is that its fairly cheap for 32 Gb, and corsair is not the worst manufacturer, as far as i know
mostly image editing in photoshop, with some pretty hi res images, often a single image is over 6 gb in size, so lots of ram is needed

 

[Cru]

the main reason is that its fairly cheap for 32 Gb, and corsair is not the worst manufacturer, as far as i know
mostly image editing in photoshop, with some pretty hi res images, often a single image is over 6 gb in size, so lots of ram is needed

yeah i guess the ram is fine then
apart from that it looks all good

 

[alienware]

the main reason is that its fairly cheap for 32 Gb, and corsair is not the worst manufacturer, as far as i know
mostly image editing in photoshop, with some pretty hi res images, often a single image is over 6 gb in size, so lots of ram is needed

You need to factor something in with that idea though.

Basically whatever sized block of ram you have in your PC will be added to your hard drive space as a paging file. So for example if you have 32gb ram you're going to lose 32gb of your SSD space unless you disable the paging file which can be problematic.

16gb ram IMO is more than enough. I can't see how you could ever need 32gb.

 

[Chris230291]

Maybe go a model lower on the motherboard and save a bit of money there?
I'm using the GA-Z77X-UD5H. From what i remember it only really lacks the thunderbolt?

 

[svinogidiot]

I volunteer at a local museum where i scan original images at 1600x1600 dpi, and many of them are too big to fit in the A3 (~24"x16") scanner, so i have to scan them in small bites and then put it toghether in photoshop. the pc they have at the museum have 16 gb ram and thats simply not enough to handle the biggest images, so since they cant spend money on hardware, and i finally are seeing a little cash flowing in direction of a pc for myself, i might aswell make it big enough to get the work done for the museum. i know i'll loose a bit of my ssd when i get one, but thats one of the reaons i chose a 250 gb instead of a 120 pro series.
And of course its always fun to have something that most other peeps doesnt have

 

[berthez]

What about this

RAM: Corsair 16GB Vengeance

PSU: Corsair CX 500W M

GPU: EVGA GTX 660 SC 2GB

CPU: Intel i5 3570K

MB: MSI Z77A-GD55

 

[svinogidiot]

@ chris, here in denmark the up4th is a bit cheaper than the ud5

@berth, 32 gb ram is needed for the work i do, and the gs700 is nearly the same price as the cx500 psu, and with a 700watt psu i have the option of getting another grfxcard for sli/crossfire.
The 660 is an option, but when i get a better monitor, i want the extra power a 7950 have..

 

[Chris230291]

Sorry i miss read the original post. I thought you said GA-Z77X-UP5-TH.

 

[leathart123]

how much overclocking you planning on doing on the cpu

 

[svinogidiot]

not sure yet, but i'll prolly go for 4,5ghz, more if its a good cpu. the main thing is to keep it stable and not tooo hot