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Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011



       

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Epoch on 14 March 2011
JayWood2010 said:
Epoch said:

Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games.  An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications.  That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance.  See here.  There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.

Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W.  650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on.  My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.

There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS.  You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.

Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself.  Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.


Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it


Nice, the 2500k is a beast.  I think it actually outperforms that i7 you had selected.  Good call on upgrading the GPU as well.

Your choice of motherboards is somewhat limited due to the 1155 chipset, but this one seems pretty good.

This one is a bit cheaper due to being a micro ATX, and would probably be good as well.

If you dont like either of those, just browse the selection in the LGA 1155 section and find one that has the features you want.  Be sure the one you choose supports the higher DDR3 RAM (1600 ), and has 4 memory slots and you shouldnt have much trouble.  Also make sure it has a PCIe 2.0 slot for your graphics card.

You will also have to change the RAM you were going to buy to some dual channel stuff. 8GB DDR3 will be plenty.



Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011
Epoch said:
JayWood2010 said:
Epoch said:

Overpowered CPU and excessive motherboard. you don't need that high end of a CPU for games.  An i5 2400 will save you $100 and you wouldnt be able to tell the difference for games or most applications.  That is actually a fairly poor choice of CPU for price/performance.  See here.  There is only a 5% performance gain for the $100 price difference.

Thats a good power supply, Corsair makes some of the best, but you dont need 750 W.  650W would be plenty, and you could still add another graphics card and a couple HDD's if you wanted to later on.  My system, which is very similar to what you have up there, uses under 450W when at max CPU/GPU usage.

There is practically no point to overclocking an i5 or i7 for gaming, except to post to forums about how awesome you are for being able to mess around with the voltages in the BIOS.  You could easily save $200 on the CPU/mobo.

Also, that case is fuckin ugly =P. I like the Lian Li cases myself.  Something like this is more practical, and much better construction.

Good HDD, not sure why you chose 6GB of RAM when you could get 8GB for about the same price.

That cooler is probably unneccessary, unless you absolutely insist on OC'ing.


Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it


Nice, the 2500k is a beast.  I think it actually outperforms that i7 you had selected.  Good call on upgrading the GPU as well.

Your choice of motherboards is somewhat limited due to the 1155 chipset, but this one seems pretty good.

This one is a bit cheaper due to being a micro ATX, and would probably be good as well.

If you dont like either of those, just browse the selection in the LGA 1155 section and find one that has the features you want.  Be sure the one you choose supports the higher DDR3 RAM (1600 ), and has 4 memory slots and you shouldnt have much trouble.  Also make sure it has a PCIe 2.0 slot for your graphics card.

You will also have to change the RAM you were going to buy to some dual channel stuff. 8GB DDR3 will be plenty.


Thanks a lot :) You have been the most help I've had. Ill go with the first motheboard you sent me because I wasnt for sure what the micro ATX meant.  I'll look for some different RAM too like you said




       

Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011

Is this good RAM?

 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145279&cm_re=8gb_ddr3-_-20-145-279-_-Product




       

Soleron on 14 March 2011
JayWood2010 said:
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Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it

What. No. GTX 465 is pretty much the only BAD choice you could have made out of many possible good choices (460, 560, 6870, 6950)

Use this chart:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-590-radeon-hd-6990,2879.html

Anything not on the scale is poor value.

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A godo motherboard is the cheapest one made by Asus, Gigabyte or MSI that supports your CPU.



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Epoch on 14 March 2011
Soleron said:
JayWood2010 said:
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Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it

What. No. GTX 465 is pretty much the only BAD choice you could have made out of many possible good choices (460, 560, 6870, 6950)

Use this chart:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-590-radeon-hd-6990,2879.html

Anything not on the scale is poor value.

--

A godo motherboard is the cheapest one made by Asus, Gigabyte or MSI that supports your CPU.

I assumed he went with that card because he didnt want to spend over $200 on a graphics card, and wants Nvidia.  I honestly don't know shit about Nvidia cards, so I'm assuming you are correct =D.



Epoch on 14 March 2011
JayWood2010 said:

Is this good RAM?

 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145279&cm_re=8gb_ddr3-_-20-145-279-_-Product


I would probably get RAM thats rated for 1600MHz, Gskill and Corsair get pretty good reviews.



Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011
Soleron said:
JayWood2010 said:
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Ok, so i changed my CPU to an i5 2500k. I also used your performance sight to find a different GPU, and chose the GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi).  And honestly I dont want to Over clock so I got rid of the cooler.  So what would be a good motherboard for it

What. No. GTX 465 is pretty much the only BAD choice you could have made out of many possible good choices (460, 560, 6870, 6950)

Use this chart:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-590-radeon-hd-6990,2879.html

Anything not on the scale is poor value.

--

A godo motherboard is the cheapest one made by Asus, Gigabyte or MSI that supports your CPU.

Then I'll go with the GTX 460 if i can find one




       

Jaywood2010 on 14 March 2011

How is this GTX 460.... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7106278&CatId=3669

Sorry for all the questions but i rlly dont have a clue what im doing lol




       

Epoch on 15 March 2011
JayWood2010 said:

How is this GTX 460.... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7106278&CatId=3669

Sorry for all the questions but i rlly dont have a clue what im doing lol


Looks fine to me.  They all function about the same, just some tend to be more reliable than others.  As long as you dont get a lemon, I'm sure it'll be good.