Hello Everybody!!

[spacewaster]

Hi, I am 24 yrs old and from Derbyshire and an avid watcher of TTL's vids on youtube, i love computers, i think tom has given me some useful tips on building desktop pc's, and im currently in the process of building a gaming rig.

Here are my current specs of my machine (in process of upgrading):

AMD FX-4100 3.60 GHz (non OC)
Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3
4GB Avexir Blitz Series Ram (2x2Gb 1333MHz)
Sapphire HD 6570 1GB DDR3
XFX PRO550W PSU
2x SATA HDD's (1x 80Gb and 1x 250Gb)
1x 250Gb IDE HDD (soon to be gotten rid of)
1x bog standard ODD (thinking of going with an external disk drive, not decided yet)
and a cheapo case which i will be modding (will put pics up when its finished, my personal project)

and this is what I will be upgrading too (main use for gaming):

AMD FX-4100 3.60 GHz (gonna OC it or upgrade it, not sure yet) (want anyone's opinion whether or not to upgrade it depending on my upgrade list and if any bottlenecks will occur)
Asus Crosshair V Formula 990FX
Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Gen 3 8Gb (2x4Gb 1600MHz)
HIS HD7950 3GB GDDR5 (possibility of getting 2 of them if they still do them when i get it, if not, thinking of getting 2x HD 7770 2Gb or 2x HD7850 2Gb
Windows 7 OS
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 64MB cache
Corsair Force GT 60Gb
BeQuiet! Shadow Wings 80mm PWM fans (1x fan at rear and the other at front of the case)
Corsair H100i with 2x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series Fans
Corsair AX760 PSU
and a BitFenix Red LED lighting strips to light up the case (as im going with a Black and Red Theme for my build)

Thanks for any opinions/info on upgrades and/or suggestions, will reply when I can as I am working.

 

[castleite]

hi dude im from Derbyshire too, clowne near chesterfield actually but about your rig, if you've got the money to be buying a £200 gpu like the 7950 and a h100i then i suggest you move up to the intel platform and a new case, apart from that i like all your specs, maybe a bigger ssd, what kind of budget are you working with here, giving a rough estimate helps allot with us guys helping you pick the best parts

also welcome to OC3D, your gunna have a blast

 

[spacewaster]

Thx for the welcome

well for the rest of the stuff (excluding the cpu) it will cost me around £860 approx. (from overclockers.co.uk) will be getting them 1-3 parts at a time till complete, will post pics on here when its done

the 7950 wont bottleneck my cpu, or the other way round, will it?

and I would like to stick with AMD as they are a fair bit cheaper and do the job I want, which is game, and yes there not as good as Intel but you pay a bit extra for that extra that the Intel does over the AMD, and in my opinion its not worth it on the cheaper models like the i3 or the i5, and you can only OC the non "K" editions cpus by about 5% and maybe not even that, and paying that extra just to OC the cpu more is not worth it in my opinion really, the fx-4100 does what I want it to really, but thx for the opinion on trying change me to Intel but i'll stick with AMD for now.

It's also my very first time OC'ing a CPU when i get the H100i aswell so might go with a reasonable OC at first and see whats its like.....maybe 4.4-4.6 for the first time.

 

[andrewmchugh]

Hey.

I would really say go for an unlocked ivy i5 or i7. Don't bother getting the new PSU unless you have the money that XFX unit is fine, but that depends on what you are doing graphics card wise.

 

[spacewaster]

will my current CPU hold back on the performance of the 7950 or should i get a 7870 or 7850?

and also would the 550w PSU i have now but enough power for a 7950 aswell as the rest of the system by its self?

if so ill consider about putting the money towards a case or a better CPU

 

[jamesriley94]

hi dude im from Derbyshire too, clowne near chesterfield actually but about your rig, if you've got the money to be buying a £200 gpu like the 7950 and a h100i then i suggest you move up to the intel platform and a new case, apart from that i like all your specs, maybe a bigger ssd, what kind of budget are you working with here, giving a rough estimate helps allot with us guys helping you pick the best parts

also welcome to OC3D, your gunna have a blast

I'm from Dronfield! So not far away either.

Welcome!
And post the upgrade in new build advice and we'll help you there.

 

[spacewaster]

ok thx, will post upgrade pics when in progress to a different part of the forum.

 

[airdeano]

welcome to OC3D forums.

c'mon in and start a public discussion.. we like those types of questions..

airdeano

 

[spacewaster]

could anyone show me a link or point me in the right direction towards the new build advice part of the forum please? thx

 

[jamesriley94]

http://forum.overclock3d.net/forumdisplay.php?f=28

Just look down the forum?

 

[dugdiamond]

welcome to c3d:

 

[Excalabur50]

G'day Welcome

 

[JMMP]

welcome dude!!

 

[CPMFW]

welcome to the forums mate