Super excited to be here!

[NasMan55]

I am super excited to be here today. My friend built my first custom pc. Without knowing anything about this stuff, well.... I watched. Shortly after watching I decided I wanted to upgrade and change some stuff. First I changed my case as I had a mid size tower. Totally not happy with that, it was so small, plus there was a damn rats nest of wires inside my cpu. Also, due to my heatsing being jubungous it was almost pressed against the side of the case. So while I didn't entirely build this thing, I did the case swap, also changed to a EVGA GTX 770 SC from a 660 and added a 800w power supply rather then the 600 I had before.

Here are my specs:
AMD FX 8150 Processor 3.8ghz
128gb SSD OCZ drive. Has my OS and whatever game I am currently playing running on it.
Also have a 1 TB hard drive ported from my old alienware computer.
16gb of ram (don't recall what was picked, but I do believe it isn't the higher clocked ram. Also I am way new and am not sure if I am using the right lingo).
EVGA GTX 770 SC
800 Watt Power supply
Thermaltake Frio Overclocking ready heat sink

I also want to over clock my cpu but I have no idea what I am doing. Sooooo, just kinda letting it sit at 3.8ghz

Best
NasMan

 

[WYP]

Welcome to the forums mate!

you'll be able to find all the help you need for your overclock, just make a thread in the overclocking section and provide you with all the help you need.

 

[Excalabur50]

G'day Welcome

 

[NasMan55]

Thanks guys!

 

[Dark NighT]

Welcome matey!

 

[Mark3Max]

Hi NasMan55 and Welcome to the forums.
Pick a topic and start asking questions , there are some very friendly people here that will help you any way they can.
You can also learn alot from reading others posts.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Welcome:wavey:

 

[garih]

welcome, may i just ask how come you are running ya gpu in the bottom slot of ya mobo? the norm is using the top slot. cant see what board ya using, but ther is a chance the bottom slot is pcie 8x instead of 16x that the top one will be, prob wont matter one bit to performance, just seems slightly odd to me.

one other thing. if ya run ya 8pin eps cable behind the mobo tray and drop down right by the port it will be a lot neater

 

[tinytomlogan]

Welcome to the forums dude, seems your mate didnt know much either but dont worry, we will wash that Thermaltacky stain from your spec list and set you on the path to being a proper enthusiast

 

[NasMan55]

You guys are so cool. THis is the forum of my dreams, it is nerd porn for sure. I've been looking at Falcon Northwest and all those other high end pcs that I could never afford for a long time. Then I realized, "hey I can learn this stuff and build it at a fraction of the cost!"

@Garih, honestly I have no idea. I just plugged everything in where I thought it was suppossed to go. No shit, turned it on and everything worked fine. My friend who put it together for me originally did all the software and such. I know the exact mobo I have let me go grab the box.

Edit--- I just realized you were talking about my gpu being plugged in to the bottom PCIE slot and not the top per the norm. I don't know why I picked that one. I guess I wasn't thinking. Also, I just looked at my mobo, the wire that runs from the power supply, can I plug that in to the bottom 16 pin? Is that what you were talking about? See following post which I put up after I wrote this edit.

It's a 990FXA-UD3 Gigabyte MOBO.

BTW, what is a 8pin EPS?

Oh and don't be afraid to criticize. I really didn't know what I was doing. I am here to learn and to learn how to do this to the best of my ability. Rock on for being helpful.

Best
NasMan

and son of a b, you are right. I believe there is a 16 pin slot at the bottom. That will def clean that cable running all the way to the top of my board right up. See what I mean! Right on man.

Edit MC editster here- I actually understand what youre talking about on the second look. I see that the power supply isn't 16 pin but 8 and that you were referring to running the cable behind everything and to have it pop out right where the connection is. Correct?

 

[NeverBackDown]

8pin EPS is another term for: 8pin CPU power connector. EPS is a specification, can't remember for what though.

Nevermind, wiki helped me

Entry-Level Power Supply Specification (EPS) is a power supply unit meant for high-power-consumption computers and entry-level servers. Developed by the Server System Infrastructure (SSI) forum, a group of companies including Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others, that works on server standards, the EPS form factor is a derivative of the ATX form factor. The EPS standard provides a more powerful and stable environment for critical server-based systems and applications. EPS power supplies have a 24-pin motherboard power connector and an 8-pin +12V connector. The standard also specifies two additional 4-pin 12V connectors for more power hungry boards (one required on 700–800W PSUs, both required on 850W+ PSUs). EPS power supplies are in principle compatible with standard ATX or ATX12V motherboards found in homes and offices but there may be mechanical issues where the 12V connector and in the case of older boards the main connector overhang the sockets.[2] Many PSU vendors use connectors where the extra sections can be unclipped to avoid this issue. As with later versions of the ATX PSU standard there is also no -5V rail. The latest specification is v2.93

 

[NasMan55]

Oh and my friend is a computer programmer, not a gamer or over clocker. So he did a good job for gettingme a working pc.Gotta give him that.

PS what's the deal with RAM and the different speeds? I'm not talking about GDDR3 vs 5. I mean the MHZ? Does this really effect gaming and performance that much?

 

[Feronix]

Welcome to the forums!

Please don't double post. From your previous posting I see you know how to use the edit button? You can also use this to add additional information to your latest post.

RAM Speeds don't matter too much for gaming. Most people find that 1600MHz, and a low Cas Latency like 9, are the sweetspot. Anything over 1866MHz is mainly for workstations or just people with money to blow

 

[NasMan55]

I tried to delete it when I saw it was in the wrong spot but it didn't work? Sorry about that.

 

[NeverBackDown]

DDR3 is different from GDDR5. DDR3 is for the system memory and GDDR5 is for GPU memory.

MHZ in DDR3 just means its clock cycle speed and the timings is the latency side of things, meaning how much information can be pushed through at one time and the clock cycle(mhz) is the speed of information traveling. Higher Mhz is better, low timings(latency) is better. For games so far anything above 1866 seems to give no performance gain, same with timings getting lower after 8. Newer games are supposed to be able to get performance gains but no one knows yet.

 

[Edge]

Hello and welcome!

 

[garih]

8pin eps is the wire going to the top of ya mobo and plugged in near ya CPU.

Ya will find that most of us on here are really anal about routing cables in such a way that as little as possible of said cables is visible.

 

[NasMan55]

I'm so for that Garih! I tried my best to hide everything. I was also at the end of what took me 3 hours or so to take it apart and put it back together with the new case, gpu and power supply. So I was getting kinda ancy just to plug her (yes it is a she) and see how she ran. Next time i have her shut down and I'm ambitious I'm gonna pop off the back and run that power supply cable that way. When I initially plugged it in I didn't see any other way to hid it, so now that I do can't wait to clean it up further.

PS as a new PC enthusiast who already has a nicely built and running computer. What should I start reading about when I have time so I can be prepared for when I build my next one in 2015?

 

[NeverBackDown]

If you stay active on the forum you'll come across a lot of knowledge and it will take care of itself overtime. Find something that interests you with hardware, look it up, try to learn it, then you are bound to find something else and etc.

 

[NasMan55]

Okay thanks for the advice. Let me know if this posts twice. Apparently I'm posting twice all over the place and I'm not doing it intentionally.