yo_john117 said:
disolitude said:
yo_john117 said:
Lol most of the bolded didn't make much sense >_<
My biggest fear is we talked to my uncle and he said building your own computer is a pain because getting everything to be compatible with each other can be pretty tough....he said if you screw up and something turns out not to be compatible with the motherboard your out all the money you spent on it.
Would a motherboard like this support the GTX 570? Cause this is the one I'm thinking of.
And are all Harddrives and Solid state drives compatable with pretty much everything?
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Getting everything to work can be tricky if you've never done it before even if you have the right parts. But compatibility should not be a problem if a little time is dedicated to research. Do save your receipts though :)
That mobo will work with i5 sandy bridge. It looks like a good mobo...the only drawback is PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 2 (supports x16 or x16/x4)
You may want 2 but at x16/x8 or x8/x8. This is only if you consider adding a second gtx570 video card down the road. If you plan to use the one till the computer craps out, you're good with ths mobo.
All hard drives these days work off SATA ports. You can have 3G or 6G SATA hard drives. You can guess which one is better and faster...Most 1155 mobos should support both so you're good no matter which you decide to buy.
You really want a SSD hard drive as your boot drive as it boots windows in less than 1/2 the time and runs important programs in a snap. Disk hard drives are best for storage of music, movies and other things like that...
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Ok thanks for the advice. One last question (for now lol)
How can you tell what different graphics cards will work with motherboards? Like will the GeForce GTX 570 be compatible with the motherboard I showed you above?
Edit: Thought of another question. Just how big of a case do we need for all the above to fit?
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All motherboards and graphics cards are compatible with eachother, unless one is seriously outdated.
And high end graphics cards tend to be very long, up to 12 inches, so you might want to look for a deep PC case built for high end systems.
