new build advice for gaming and case and ram advice

[chewbarney]

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: Corsair H80 with sp 120 quiet

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB

Storage: Corsair Force Series GT 120GB

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Motherboard: Asus Maximus V formula

Graphics card: Evga 670 ftw (will go sli when i can)

Psu: hx 750

 

[Excalabur50]

Sounds ok so far as to ram Corsair, Mushkin or Gskill, Case well what do you like the look of 600T, Storm Stryker, Bit Fenix? In the end you gotta like what ur building into. Good Luck and enjoy ur build.

 

[Bang]

Welcome to the forums.

Your choices in hardware seem pretty good but I wouldnt spend that much on the motherboard. If youre after the 8 Sata ports, there are far less expensive options. Look at some of the MSI mainboards like the MPower or Z77A-GD65. If youre only going to have 1 SSD and 1 HDD, you would only need 6 Sata ports which leaves room for you to add more drives later.

All round good choices though, particularly if youre gaming and not doing heavy video encoding/rendering.

 

[chewbarney]

OK so 600T white with 8GB of corsair vengeance lp

 

[Bang]

Yar just make sure you dont get cheesemo 1333Mhz ram. Ivy Bridge loves speed so 1866mhz is really the slowest I would go. 1600 and 1866 are about the same price so its worth an extra $5 to get 1866.

 

[jamesriley94]

If you get a 600T you may as well push the cooler up to a H100i. Performs a fair bit better, and I think the single rad things look a bit stupid really.

Also PSU wise, I'd only buy fully modular PSUs now. I think they just look so much neater, even in the case of the HX750 when the non-modular cables will be used anyway, I think the fully modular PSUs still look better. Maybe look into Seasonic, Corsair AX series or Silverstone Striders instead. But that's just what I'd do, you may not mind it so much

 

[chewbarney]

i thought the hx series were modular so ill got a ax series and the h100i i do mind because this is my first build ever so i want to make it as beastly as possible

 

[chewbarney]

ok so this is what i have so far can i do anything better to it. i will still go with sli in the future. i don't plan on overclocking (because i don't know how) but if i learn i will.

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i (with sp 120)

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD65

Ram: corsair vengence 8gb lp

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB and Crucial m4

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card

Case: Corsair 600T White Graphite

Power Supply: Corsair ax 750W

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

 

[jamesriley94]

I'd also say change the SSD for a Crucial M4, or Samsung 830/840 as they tend to be more reliable, and a little faster - but that's up to you.