New Rig Advice: Antique Rig Continued

AverageNinja

AverageNinja

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Hi there guys!
As some of you may know, after more than 9 years of great service, the Antique Rig died.
So on friday I'm hopefuly getting my new PC, but I have to confince my parents about me building a PC first, as they think I was f***ing around with my old one and it blew up because of that.
My new PC has to be mATx, because I want the pc on my desk and my desk is attached to the wall, so I can't put heavy cases on my desk.
I pretty much decided on the Arc Mini, but this case, and the Define Mini are out of stock, and I'm not ordering online, so I might need an alternative.
This is what I came up with:
CPU: i3 3220
MoBo: MSI B75MA-P45
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr GTX 660
PSU: Corsair CX430m or CX500(non-m)
Case: Arc Mini (hopefuly)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600MHz
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 1TB
Stock cooling. (It's an i3, so... :p)
I do plan on OCing the GTX660.
Anything you guys would change on this build? (Note: the store doesn't have Tahiti LE's :()
My budget is €600 at max. Preferably lower.
The shop where I'm buying is not the cheapest also :p
Thanks in advance guys!
EDIT: if I can't build it myself, I'll let the store assemble it on my parents cost and I'll secretly take it apart and rebuild it again for a build log :)
 
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I'd go CX500 tbh.

No point OCing the 660 other than risking failure because the I3 is a good match for it so you won't gain much.

As for the case? I would go with the Xigmatek Midgard II. Easily the best budget case around IMO.

As I said in another thread I have a monitor here you can have for postage. I can't remember the details as it's packed away but I know it's a 20+ inch 16:10 IBM screen that cost me a fortune. The only caveat is that the stand is gone so you'd have to wall mount but other than that the quality is what you'd expect from Lenovo IBM - amazing. It's got a gorgeous picture and colour balance.
 
^^ I'm afraid the store also has limited amounts of gear (only corsair, fractal, cooler master, aopen and antec :/
I agee on the not OCing the 660, but I'm the owner of the OC3D OCers Club :p
And I'll talk to my parents about the mobo :)
EDIT: I meant monitor :p
 
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Why would you buy from a store? :L The prices are much cheaper online.

It all looks good :) I would personally go for the 430M, Just because any modularity is nice.
 
Not to be advertising but I'd recommend you take a look at 4Launch. They are one of the cheapest and have quite a lot of products. They also deliver rather quickly
 
I'd rather go to a physical store mate :)
MyCom has a store close to me (from Zeewolde to Almere :p), and I liked their service in the past, so I think I'm going there :D
@seumas: because my parents don't like ordering things that expensive online. :/
 
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Fair enough :p

It's tempting though, isn't it?
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Quite yes, but my MyCom is cheaper in this case atleast :p
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I don't want an DVD-Drive also :)
 
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Update;
So i went to the store today, and my parents really want the store to build the pc.
It was fine with me, as long as they pay that, and they said they will.
But the Antique Rig has revived itself as well, but both HDDs were corrupted.
I'll try to burn windows on an HDD tonight and see if I can at least use it for a few more days/ weeks. A new rig is close though.
I'm getting Windows 8 from a mate of mine (he has a website building company and he has a Windows 8 license for 30 PCs.
I'll update y'all tonight!
 
So did I :p
Luckily, it only takes a screwdriver and my parents not being home to rebuild it and post a build log ;)
That guy in the store was quite a noob though.
He told me building a pc was quite risky, and that they all had done a special education beforehand.
This made my parents (even more) sceptical :(
 
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i would personally take it apart an build it again from scratch, i have had a bad experience with ready built/put together part from company's ie: ram not being seated properly and no thermal paste used on heat sink

glad to hear your getting a rig update tho bud :)
 
That's what I'm gonna do :)
Except for the cooler, the stock cooler has pre-applied thermal paste :)
Not sure when I'm getting a new system. If my old rig can't be saved, really soon.
If it can be saved: next month.
 
^^ heh, sure thing ;)
Burning windows atm, will see soon I guess :D
Fingers crossed Antique Rig goes back to afterlife :p
Though I think the thing will be fully functional again :(
 
Great news!
I haven't tried re-installing windows yet, because the laptop froze during 'configuring windows-updates'. My parents were in such a shock, they decided I would need 2 things, a laptop (which i'll get from my parents) for school, and a gaming pc (which I'll pay for 100% except the installation costs).
Basically, I'm getting a new cheap laptop soon and a new gaming pc approx. next month!
 
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