Teacher's 3770K Z77 Build

[MaoJordan]

Preamble

Hey guys, I've finally had with my old laptop, a 2Ghz Intel Pentium T3200 from yesteryear (See current CPUZ Specs attached and my current setup). I stupidly though i would be able to attached a 3TB Seagate hard drive via Sata/USB but as you may expect my laptop can only recognise 746Gb so i'm SOL. These turn of events have lead me to fulfill my dream of having a powerful PC at long last.

Purpose

I am not a gamer in any sense of the word, it’s just not my thing. What is however is multitasking. I am a history teacher and preparing PowerPoint’s and lesson plans is just so much easier on a multi monitor setup, I current own two 24” but hoping to go to three by the end of summer. I would like to start video editing as my wife and I want to start travelling together so I a video camera (Panasonic SD90 or SD900) will be purchased. I would like the 3770k to help be blitz through Adobe Premier. I will be running Window 7 as my main OS but I shall through in some old 2.5” Laptop hard drives into the rig so I may have a disk dedicated to Linux and Dualboot. (Maybe even TriBoot making this a Hackintosh somewhere down the line).

But in short this Rig will be used for Lesson Planning / Multitasking / watching HD videos and eventually video editing.

The New Build

The Rig will be as follows;

• CPU – Intel 3770k http://bit.ly/IOq0CT
  
• Mobo – Gigabyte GA-Z77X- UD5H http://bit.ly/IOqmJw (not too sure about this shop)
  
• RAM – 8GB Mushkin Enhanced Blackline Frostbyte LV (2x4GB) 1600 9-9-9-24 1.35V http://bit.ly/IOqFUN
  
• SSD – Kingston SSD V+100 96GB Sata II http://amzn.to/IOqVTQ (Currently my boot drive in my Laptop, bought over a year ago for £96 the current price is ridiculous! Hence why I will hold off buying a new Sata III SSD for now)
  
• HDD – Seagate 3TB Sata III http://bit.ly/IOr7Cq (Just bought this bad boy)
  
• PSU – 600W be quiet! Efficient Power 80PLUS Gold http://bit.ly/IOs3ql
  
• Displays – Two Iiyama ProLite E2473HDS (Both currently owned) http://bit.ly/IOpSTL
  
• Case – Fractal Design Define R3 Titanium V2 http://bit.ly/IOsukE
  

Now that took the best part of 10 minutes to copy and paste but I wanted to be thorough. Do you have any concerns over the components, in particular the RAM?

Thanks for looking this over, I will be buying the parts over the weekend so any suggestions or recommended alterations will be welcome.

Enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend folks!

Current Laptop Specs

Current Setup running of old Laptop

 

[Lauralarry]

no need for 3 .. unless your setting up wallstreet in your house it seems cool at first but 2 is enough focus on the hardware that's gonna be going into the pc

 

[sheroo]

I would say that if you are not a gamer then you could probably get away with a 500W or even 430W PSU. Aria are a good company, I buy from them regularly, in fact if you have more than 50 posts and registered for more than 28 days - you can get free delivery. If you do decide to go for 3 monitors, then you can pick up a low end AMD card that supports eyefinity.

 

[Jadarite]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]As an alternative to your mobo choice you might want to have a look at the Asus p8z77-v deluxe http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-p8z77-v-deluxe-s1155-intel-z77-ddr3-atx-80TY.html?refs=4294943314&src=3[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] (try code april10 as this might get you £10 off) and when it comes to ram i would suggest 16GB as you [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]have plans for vid editing take a look at crucial BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00CEU[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] ram, hope this is of some help to you[/font][/font]

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]and i would also suggest window 7 64 bit if you are going to use more than 8GB of ram[/font]

 

[yassarikhan786]

Don't use the site you have linked for the motherboard as it looks "suspect" to me and I am sure others would agree. As sheroo above has suggested Aria generally have the best prices and with the free delivery it is a solid place to buy from.

 

[MaoJordan]

Don't use the site you have linked for the motherboard as it looks "suspect" to me and I am sure others would agree. As sheroo above has suggested Aria generally have the best prices and with the free delivery it is a solid place to buy from.

I would say that if you are not a gamer then you could probably get away with a 500W or even 430W PSU. Aria are a good company, I buy from them regularly, in fact if you have more than 50 posts and registered for more than 28 days - you can get free delivery. If you do decide to go for 3 monitors, then you can pick up a low end AMD card that supports eyefinity.

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]As an alternative to your mobo choice you might want to have a look at the Asus p8z77-v deluxe http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-p8z77-v-deluxe-s1155-intel-z77-ddr3-atx-80TY.html?refs=4294943314&src=3[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] (try code april10 as this might get you £10 off) and when it comes to ram i would suggest 16GB as you [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]have plans for vid editing take a look at crucial [/font]BLS2CP8G3D1339DS1S00CEU ram, hope this is of some help to you[/font]

Thanks, I like Aria too, normally buy from them it's just the board is over £10 cheaper on Ebuyer with free delivery. i wonder if i give them a call they will price match? I am always paying £8 or so for next day delivery with Aria?!?!?

You are right about that dodgey looking site i will give it a miss!

Too much Blue with that Asus Mobo Cram! I am a Utd not a City fan haha

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

How about this:

AMD FX-4100 3.6Ghz stock quad core > £90

2x 2GB Crucial Rendition 1333Mhz > £14

Gigabyte AM3+ mATX board > £32

GT 430 2GB > £55

250w mATX Xenta PSU > £10

32GB Kingston V100 SSDnow for boot and powerpoint > £49

500GB SATA III Seagate Baracuda > £55

£305

Prices taken from eBuyer and Amazon

 

[MaoJordan]

Order placed chaps!

Pics coming soon!

 

[MaoJordan]

Sorry for the delay!

Would add more but forum says i've reached my limit?... should i use imgur? if so [font=Arial, sans-serif]http://chairmao.imgur.com[/font]

 

[Josh Weston]

Oooh, lovely boxes! Hope the build goes well for you.

 

[Azurite]

Tip. Edit and change the title. right now it says 3370k and not 3770k

 

[The Orange One]

Tip. Edit and change the title. right now it says 3370k and not 3770k

Hhaha, I Did not notice that, good spot Az, and Chair Mao, I think you should probably change it lol

 

[MaoJordan]

Tip. Edit and change the title. right now it says 3370k and not 3770k

Thanks! I was too excited to notice!

 

[Master&Puppet]

That rig will do you proud and it is looking nice and tidy in that case too

 

[MaoJordan]

That rig will do you proud and it is looking nice and tidy in that case too

May i ask how i embed images in the post rather than giving you links to imgur? I have seen other project logs with lots of pics however i am limited to 500k

 

[Master&Puppet]

May i ask how i embed images in the post rather than giving you links to imgur? I have seen other project logs with lots of pics however i am limited to 500k

Upload the image into imgur.

Copy the BBCode text and paste it into the message editor

 

[MaoJordan]

Hope you like it, i will be installing the wifi card and fan controller this weekend and hopefully buying either the h60 or nhd14 cooler by the end of the month

 

[yassarikhan786]

Really nice job on the rig, it looks really smart

. It's also nice to see a BeQuiet PSU being used

 

[The Orange One]

This is a beast of a rig, enjoy

 

[MaoJordan]

I've just thrown in the R3 fan controller, i am too ashamed to post the pic of how untidy the inside of the rig looks now. However running the system fans on quite now, much better.