Allow me to point out Crucial's M4 128gb drives are 125.00 or so on Newegg and have cranking reliability scores. I have bought 3 OCZs to date and just bought a Crucial M4 two days ago instead of another OCZ because the last one was dreck.TheEbolaVirus said:
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agreed, as long as you are careful and ask questions/read up on it, it's very simple and the ON-board OC will take care of his needs.Matthew94 said:
as mentioned- "Everyone's gotta start somewhere"
OT: most people have covered all suggestions I would give you, especially on the CPU and Blu-Ray drive (the sound card unless you REALLY need a nice one) so feel free to rack my opinion up with those.
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I like the i7 chip, I have a 2700k and it screams, you can get an ivybridge for about the cost of my chip now, really I would suggest going with a better cpu since it is one of those things that is a pain to replace so I think its better to go with a bit of a higher end one, plus I think the ivy bridge series will be the last intel chip to use the 1155 socket type.
You don't need a sound card, pretty much every motherboard you can get nowadays has a decent on board one, although if you're doing audio editing then you might need one.
If you aren't totally comfortable doing it then I would recommend not doing liquid cooling, plus you only need it if your overclocking out the ass. If there are any leaks in the line then you could kill your comp.
I would swap the 5 series vid card with a 6 series, like one of the 670s or something.
You don't need a sound card, pretty much every motherboard you can get nowadays has a decent on board one, although if you're doing audio editing then you might need one.
If you aren't totally comfortable doing it then I would recommend not doing liquid cooling, plus you only need it if your overclocking out the ass. If there are any leaks in the line then you could kill your comp.
I would swap the 5 series vid card with a 6 series, like one of the 670s or something.
There's one really bad tip thrown for a couple of times.
Do get a soundcard. Integrated ones have improved much, but if you listen to music and otherwise enjoy a proper sound quality. It's so common to stare at the "7.1" and "HD Audio" tags on the integrated ones, while the difference to proper peripheral ones can be quite massive. If you haven't got, nor ever tried a PC with a proper sound card and a pair of quality headphones, nor care about sound quality; don't throw bad advices on the subject.
I'm more on the side of Creative X-Fi, but what I've heard and read, ASUS Xonar is nearly or just as good.
Pay in mind though, that you'll need a quality pair of headphones/headset/earphones to get the value out of the sound card. That can run you about 100 ?, or more, or a bit less, depending on your tastes, ear size, whether you like closed/open and so on. It's a whole another subject though, because while price can be a good marker for quality (especially within the same manufacturer), it's not as black & white as that. And personal preferences play a big role.
Do get a soundcard. Integrated ones have improved much, but if you listen to music and otherwise enjoy a proper sound quality. It's so common to stare at the "7.1" and "HD Audio" tags on the integrated ones, while the difference to proper peripheral ones can be quite massive. If you haven't got, nor ever tried a PC with a proper sound card and a pair of quality headphones, nor care about sound quality; don't throw bad advices on the subject.
I'm more on the side of Creative X-Fi, but what I've heard and read, ASUS Xonar is nearly or just as good.
Pay in mind though, that you'll need a quality pair of headphones/headset/earphones to get the value out of the sound card. That can run you about 100 ?, or more, or a bit less, depending on your tastes, ear size, whether you like closed/open and so on. It's a whole another subject though, because while price can be a good marker for quality (especially within the same manufacturer), it's not as black & white as that. And personal preferences play a big role.
I think the power supply is a bit of overkill, unless you planned on running another video card in the future maybe?
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PSU is overpowered. If you can find a 600W or something, that's cheaper, by all means, get that one.
Blu-ray drives are still expensive. Same goes for Blu-ray discs. A regular DVD-drive with more than enough burning properties should do the trick. And those cost about 20 ?, and have for quite a time.
I get the advertisement for i5, but it's really up to you. I'd go with an i7, but with that thought, I'd certainly get a motherboard with LGA1366-socket. And with that, I'd also change the RAM to Kingston HyperX T1.
I've always preferred GeForce, for every reason. But even from a more objective standpoint: Only get an AMD Radeon graphics card, if you're getting an AMD CPU. There's a certain relation to those two things for the most observant. I'd also ramp up to 6xx-series. While 580 would quite surely meet all your needs, it's still the weakest link on your rig as of now, and games nowadays take their toll on the GPU, instead of the CPU, as they did with DirectX 9 and earlier -games.
Blu-ray drives are still expensive. Same goes for Blu-ray discs. A regular DVD-drive with more than enough burning properties should do the trick. And those cost about 20 ?, and have for quite a time.
I get the advertisement for i5, but it's really up to you. I'd go with an i7, but with that thought, I'd certainly get a motherboard with LGA1366-socket. And with that, I'd also change the RAM to Kingston HyperX T1.
I've always preferred GeForce, for every reason. But even from a more objective standpoint: Only get an AMD Radeon graphics card, if you're getting an AMD CPU. There's a certain relation to those two things for the most observant. I'd also ramp up to 6xx-series. While 580 would quite surely meet all your needs, it's still the weakest link on your rig as of now, and games nowadays take their toll on the GPU, instead of the CPU, as they did with DirectX 9 and earlier -games.
Sorry, Just have to throw it out there that I completely disagree, I've used peripheral (external) sound cards at college and at The BBC studios, they have advantages, but only ones you'd be able to hear on a set of speakers costing more than his PC (In music production they're called monitors) and I think the BBC's ones cost around £10,000.BENZOOKA said:
And all of this is a moot point if he uses the optical SPDIF out on the motherboard. Now I'm not saying that an internal sound card wont offer a noticeable difference on an expensive set of speakers, but peripheral is way over the top
i5 2500kTheEbolaVirus said:
CM Hyper 212 Evo
8gb RAM
GTX 670 (unless you are getting a super good deal on the 580)
Reasons: 2600k is barely better than a 2500k, and mostly useless for gaming in comparison. Also, hyperthreading occasionally drops performance.
H100 is a waste of money for the performance. The 212 Evo is a solid air cooler and you can hit 4.5ghz safely on air. I OCed a 2500k to 4.5ghz with a Zalman CNPS9900 Max and it wasn't even hitting 70C.
16gb of RAM is a waste for anything except maybe huge ass Solid Works assemblies or major video/audio editing projects. 8gb is fine.
580 is old tech, but can be had at a good price and delivers fine performance. Still, the new 600 series is really good, or you could get a 7870 from AMD.
I was going to build a computer this summer too (before I realized that as a University student I'm poor as hell). I don't know if you've built one before, but Maximum PC has guides on building them too, and usually has articles where they build PCs for different budgets, but the budget one are usually slightly out of date due to pricing changes and the like. That said best of luck to you OP.
A-ha, you got to say you've used professional BBC audio gear.LordFish said:
Anything you said has got nothing to do with the fact that separate sound cards are superior to motherboard-integrated ones, and one should invest in such if they care about sound quality in everyday computer use.
Get to use* not usedBENZOOKA said:
And you said 'peripheral sound cards', Pretty sure that means external, am I to understand that was a slip of the fingers, or where you in fact suggesting studio equipment? Or maybe a USB laptop sound card?
Either way a PCIe card should be enough.
What about warranties? Don't you lose them if you OC?Matthew94 said:
I really don't see the advantages of OC'ing. I used to... when I was 14. To me OC is the last resort when you're computer is getting outdated and you still don't have an excuse to upgrade.
I like to play a few games at very high FPS but those games are usually old and getting to those marks is easy. In modern games I don't really see the point of playing at over 60 FPS so I don't really care about the OC'ing the graphics card.
About the CPU... I have been running a dual core at factory settings (3GHz) and it rocks. If I needed more, I would just buy a quad-core, not OC it because the gains wouldn't be that noticeable if I was running CPU intensive programs.
My 2 cents would be ditch the sound card, get an i5 2500K instead of i7 & spend the difference on a GTX 680(assuming you will be using a 1080p+ monitor/TV)
Well worth it.
If you're REALLY enthusiastic like me, get a cheap Nvidia (GTX260/280?) to use on the side for PhysX, leaving all the rendering to the 680. More POWEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Well worth it.
If you're REALLY enthusiastic like me, get a cheap Nvidia (GTX260/280?) to use on the side for PhysX, leaving all the rendering to the 680. More POWEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR