New gaming PC

[Jurgg]

Hello everyone,

I'm planning to build a new computer, but I'm quiet new in building a computer myself.

I'd like to use this computer for gaming, photo and video-editing, etc.

I was thinking about this configuration:

Case: NZXT Phantom white

M/B: ASUS P8P67 Pro

CPU: Intel I7 2600K

H/S: Noctua NH-D14

PSU: NZXT Hale90 850W

GFX: MSI N570GTX Twin FrozrII

HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB SATA-600

RAM: 2x 4GB Mushkin DDR3 PC3-12800 7-9-8-24 Redline Ridgeback

DVD: Sony Optiarc AD-7260S black

Budget: €1300 - €1400 (around $1850 - $2000)

Comments and suggestions are very welcome!

Greetings, Jurgg

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Looks like it'll be an awesome rig mate.

Edit: Pretty much deleted my original post here because I was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!!!!

 

[cbiltsouris]

change that 2600k to a 2500k there is minimal difference between them 2600k ain worth the pricem are you planning to sli in the future? what I recomend you do is purchase the best graphics card u can afford then sli later on when the card gets cheaper. with money u save from the 2600k you could possibly get a 580 lighting then u can sli that later on. your psu will be enough to handle two 580s mine does

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

change that 2600k to a 2500k there is minimal difference between them 2600k ain worth the pricem are you planning to sli in the future? what I recomend you do is purchase the best graphics card u can afford then sli later on when the card gets cheaper. with money u save from the 2600k you could possibly get a 580 lighting then u can sli that later on. your psu will be enough to handle two 580s mine does

Difference between the 2500K and 2600K is minimal when gaming, however if your rendering videos the 2600K is the better option from what I've read.

As far as going for the GTX 580, it is the best graphics card you can buy, hands down. But when you look at the FPS difference between the GTX 570 and 580 and then the price difference then is it really worth it??? To some people it is and to some people it isn't. Check out the reviews and decide for yourself.

I like ending on this though which can be found in the discussion for about the 590

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TBH with this sort of money to spend I have to say the sensible money is 2x GTX570's.

[/font][font="arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif"]"Yeah, but you could get a 580 now and then another later and they would kill a 590" true, but some people just like to buy the best they can now and leave it till they want to do a complete rebuild again. With PC's its all personal preference.[/font]

 

[merrymustu]

get a gigabyte p67a-ud7 or asus maximus 4 extreme mobo. i7-2600k is good. Get a corsair ax-1200 psu for future graphic card upgrades.

 

[cbiltsouris]

1200 is excessive for his needs he aint tri sliing and his on a budget which im pretty sure the ud7 or the extreme board arent in that catogrey

 

[sg12004]

all looking good thare you have picked good parts

 

[Pat123]

Everything looks pretty good to me! Should be a very capable rig

But like a few others have said if you aren't video editing/graphics designing a lot and are just gaming i'd go with the 2500k and get a UD7 so i could add another 570 in the future.

 

[merrymustu]

1200 is excessive for his needs he aint tri sliing and his on a budget which im pretty sure the ud7 or the extreme board arent in that catogrey

well if he's spending a good 1400 pounds on the rig then i think it should futureproof him for at least about 2 years. I personally am planning to build a similar budget rig for myself and I look at it this way.A 1200W psu isn't a bad idea at all coz in the future if he wants to upgrade, he won't have to buy a new psu altogether.

 

[Pat123]

well if he's spending a good 1400 pounds on the rig then i think it should futureproof him for at least about 2 years. I personally am planning to build a similar budget rig for myself and I look at it this way.A 1200W psu isn't a bad idea at all coz in the future if he wants to upgrade, he won't have to buy a new psu altogether.

1200w is massive overkill 750w would do his rig, hell even 650 would be fine. 850 leaves plenty of upgrade headroom.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Everything looks pretty good to me! Should be a very capable rig

But like a few others have said if you aren't video editing/graphics designing a lot and are just gaming i'd go with the 2500k and get a UD7 so i could add another 570 in the future.

The UD7 is twice the prise of the board he's picked out. The ASUS board he's selected he can still run SLI/CF with dual cards except that they'll be running at x8x8 instead of x16x16. Personally I don't think its worth spending twice as much on a motherboard now just because you may want to add a second card later, especially since your apparently not suppose to be able to really tell the difference between duel x16 and duel x8 when your actually using them. I'm trying to find some figures on this to back up my statement.

well if he's spending a good 1400 pounds on the rig then i think it should futureproof him for at least about 2 years. I personally am planning to build a similar budget rig for myself and I look at it this way.A 1200W psu isn't a bad idea at all coz in the future if he wants to upgrade, he won't have to buy a new psu altogether.

Here I gota say I agree with Pat. 850W is more than enough now and for the future in this type of rig. 1000W+ PSU's are when you want to run 3 or 4 cores and then some. If you want to argue future proofing then I will say it might be worth going for something like the AX850 where all the PCI-E connectors are 6+2 instead of a mixture of 6 & 6+2 like with the hail as we're starting to see the 6+2 PCI-E power connectors more but that's about it.

If your buying the hail though because its going to look slick in the phantom though, stick with the hail.

Where future proofing is concerned with power supplies however I believe we need to look more at the connectors it has more than the wattage. The power supply I have in my current 775 rig would run a 1155 rig if only I could connect it

Hope this helps

 

[Stryker64]

I personally don't see anything wrong with the build. 2500K is better for gaming, saves you some money unless you want to do heavily into video rendering.

PSU 850w is enough and has a reasonable amount of future proofing imo, because 2 way SLI/Crossfire it all you really need and 850w is plenty for that.

Motherboard, the P8P67 pro is a really good motherboard choice, offers good performance at a reasonable price. Probably the best in that price range, although MSI P67A GD65 is slightly cheaper.

 

[Jurgg]

Difference between the 2500K and 2600K is minimal when gaming, however if your rendering videos the 2600K is the better option from what I've read.

As far as going for the GTX 580, it is the best graphics card you can buy, hands down. But when you look at the FPS difference between the GTX 570 and 580 and then the price difference then is it really worth it??? To some people it is and to some people it isn't. Check out the reviews and decide for yourself.

I like ending on this though which can be found in the discussion for about the 590

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[/font][font="arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif"]"Yeah, but you could get a 580 now and then another later and they would kill a 590" true, but some people just like to buy the best they can now and leave it till they want to do a complete rebuild again. With PC's its all personal preference.[/font]

I was wondering.. The i7-2600k is only supporting up to 1333MHz, what advantage do I have to upgrade up 2000MHz memory. When the i7-2600k is OC'ed will it be able to use the 2000MHz of the memory or how does this work?

Cuz I'm not quiet into the OC'ing thing yet.

I'll be using the rig for gaming, photo/video editing and graphical design. I've chosen the MSI n570gtx Twin FrozrII, will that be enough?

 

[Pat123]

I was wondering.. The i7-2600k is only supporting up to 1333MHz, what advantage do I have to upgrade up 2000MHz memory. When the i7-2600k is OC'ed will it be able to use the 2000MHz of the memory or how does this work?

Cuz I'm not quiet into the OC'ing thing yet.

I'll be using the rig for gaming, photo/video editing and graphical design. I've chosen the MSI n570gtx Twin FrozrII, will that be enough?

The gfx card will be fine

And as for the memory you're correct. In real world terms you won't see any notable difference between 1600mhz and 2000mhz unless heavily overclocked and benched. I'd go with the 1600mhz, well i am going with it

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

I was wondering.. The i7-2600k is only supporting up to 1333MHz, what advantage do I have to upgrade up 2000MHz memory. When the i7-2600k is OC'ed will it be able to use the 2000MHz of the memory or how does this work?

Cuz I'm not quiet into the OC'ing thing yet.

I'll be using the rig for gaming, photo/video editing and graphical design. I've chosen the MSI n570gtx Twin FrozrII, will that be enough?

Glad I hid long enough for Pat to answer there cus I must admit I'm still lost when it comes to properly understanding memory so when I read your question I was like, oh look a badger with a gun...

I've recently come to thinking that faster memory is better after reading this review here that basically says, well read the second sentence and you'll understand how I got it wrong if nothing else: http://www.overclock...133mhz_review/1

But yeah, I do understand however that to get your motherboard to get the most out of that memory then you are going to have to overclock and if that's not your thing then its just going to run at 1600MHz anyway so you might as well buy 1600MHz

Maybe advising you to get 2000MHz memory wasn't the best advice I could give there so I apologise.

With the graphics card I again agree with Pat, the 570 with be grand.

From what I understand, although if I'm wrong please correct me, when your working with pictures and video then most of that is done with the CPU anyway. Depending on the type of graphic design your doing then that can be effected by your graphics card but if you where doing anything like that then you'd already know what you needed so the 570 is going to be more than enough (maybe this sounds wrong but there is no offence intended there)

Personally mate I think you put a really good rig together there without spending crazy money. I think its going to be great.

Remember, pics in the gallery when its completed please

 

[Grizzly]

Have I confused myself somewhere or am I right in thinking 2000 MHz is useless with sandybridge CPUs?

Shouldn't he be getting 1600 or 2133?

 

[Jurgg]

... Remember, pics in the gallery when its completed please

Thanks mate

. Allright I'll put some pics in the gallery, but you've got to help me with that.. What gallery and where can I find it?

 

[Pat123]

Have I confused myself somewhere or am I right in thinking 2000 MHz is useless with sandybridge CPUs?

Shouldn't he be getting 1600 or 2133?

Yeh the boards don't support 2000mhz just 1600 or 1866mhz and 2133mhz

But anything over 1600mhz isn't really of any benefit

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Have I confused myself somewhere or am I right in thinking 2000 MHz is useless with sandybridge CPUs?

Shouldn't he be getting 1600 or 2133?

Yes, you are completely right and my first post was completely wrong and have now pretty much deleted it to try and hide my shame. Sorry about that Jurgg, should have REALLY checked my facts before posting.

Thanks mate

. Allright I'll put some pics in the gallery, but you've got to help me with that.. What gallery and where can I find it?

http://forum.overclo...42-rig-gallery/

That's the link to the sites rig gallery mate. Look forward to seeing your new rig there

Yeh the boards don't support 2000mhz just 1600 or 1866mhz and 2133mhz

But anything over 1600mhz isn't really of any benefit

I swear that I am not saying your wrong but can you please explain this because the second sentence of this review implies something completely different:

http://www.overclock...133mhz_review/1

Really want to understand what the deal is with memory speeds.

 

[Excalabur50]

Your build sounds allright just try to buy the best you can afford.