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disolitude on 01 August 2012
JEMC said:

@disolitude: I agree. However if you are getting a new PC it is hard not to go for the best you can get, not the one that suits you now. This way you are also putting to rest that little voice in your head that tells "your PC will be obsolete in one year".

Personally I'm quite happy with my 750 but, although I play on a 1080p monitor, I'm thinking about upgrading my HD5850 to something better, maybe an HD7870 which gives me almost twice the performance and uses roughly the same power at load but, also very important for me, less power at idle.


Yeah, I hear that. Its really hard to turn that voice off when building PCs.

But I've recently discovered another voice to building PCs. "Do it as cheaply as possible"

For example, NCIX had this Shuttle PC for 159 2 weeks ago - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=55947

I picked it up to build it for a friend who saw mine and said he wanted one too.

I slapped in 4GB of old DDR2 RAM, an old AM2+ dual core processor and since it only had a single slot PCIe 2.0 slot, I got him a XFX 7750 single slot.

We were playing Dirt 3 and Max Payne 3 at his house on it perfectly fine on a 1080p monitor. It cost me maybe 330 bucks tax in with a 60 GB boot SSD, DVD drive and 500 GB hard drive. (I had the CPU and RAM).



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JEMC on 02 August 2012

^Nice cheap machine. And I'm sure he will notice the immediacy that the SSD gives more than anything else.

The truth is that while hardware was once lagging behind software, always trying to catch up with newer and more powerful equipment, now it's the other way around. A 3 years old PC can run perfectly fine all the "every-day" applications (browsers, mail, music/video players, Office, etc.) and also games if you are willing to sacrifice AA and/or some detail.

And it's something that doesn't like like it will change anytime soon.



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goddog on 02 August 2012

first i recommend modular PSU, seasonic and corsair.

for coolers on the low cost end a coolermaster hyper 212+ with 2 fans which i used to use in my primary rig, cools great but can get loud when fighting a high overclock and prime 95, on the high end some big metal, i use a Prolimatech Megahalems now with two fans, but really any of the big ones will do if they fit in your case



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Munkeh111 on 02 August 2012

I just built a similarish PC

Z77 Sabertooth
ASUS 670
i5-3570k
8gb corsair vengence LP memory
128GB Samsung 830 SSD
1tb WD Black Caviar HDD
Sony DVD drive

I went for the Corsair 750HX power supply. It is basically fully modular, only the CPU and Motherboard power supplies are attached and it comes with plenty of cables. I chose that power to allow me to overclock the CPU (once I get a proper cooler, since I am just using the default one atm) and add a second 670, so an 850W power supply should be fine for 2 680s

I should just say, if you care at all about air flow or tidyness in your case, get a modular power supply!