Upgrading PC - Advice needed - Page 2

ah I assume your talking about the CORSAIR Hydro H70? if so that will be pretty overkill if u dont plan on OCing
but if u need it quiet that might be the way to go
maby use the stock cooler the cpu comes with or even buy a nice reviewed cooler for your cpu on newegg or somthing that you like

for the laggy link opening you might have too much stuff open

I have this same retarded problem (windows wanting to stop aero) like idk how many weeks ago but I had to increese my paging file to like 6gb or somthing
now it puts a bunch of unwanted wear n tear on my hdd, I got 4gb ram but
it used to wine at me when I was only using like 2-3gb


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Higgins909
Edited by Higgins909 - 11/12/12 at 5:20am

You don't need it whether or not you game. It is more of a question on how cool do you want your computer to run. Some people say closed water cooling loops are not necessary, and that a good air cooler will suffice. Some people think air coolers can work just as good as closed liquid cooling systems.

I think if you are going to but an aftermarket cooler for your CPU which I strongly recommend as the stock Intel coolers that come with the CPU are pretty bad.

In regards to air coolers vs. closed water loops. Water will always win. Its that water has a higher specific heat capacity than air, making it able to hold more heat. What increases the rate of the heat dissipation is your fans.

So the water will allow more heat to be taken up efficiently rather than spilled out into your case due to the low specific heat capacity of air as I mentioned. The fans determine how quickly that water can be cooled back down to its initial temperature (based upon air movement over the rad - known as CFM).

This is all science.

I believe the question is very difficult to answer, it really depends on how much you are willing to spend to achieve a desired temperature for your PC. What I would do is search peoples idle and load temperatures using suggested cooler, and see if those are temperatures you would feel comfortable with.

Again water > air.


Well if you are going to go for a 500GB I checked the current price of SSDs on pcpartpicker.com and the Samsung 840 500GB is your best deal. It is currently priced £325, making it cost £0.67/GB. When you look at the SSD page in that link keep in mind you lose ~10% of drive space. The displayed sizes are not actually sizes of the disks.

Samsung is a great company with good warranty.


Have fun with your build, and sorry for the late post, Brian

For HDD I would recommend Western Digital. They have amazing warranty. I would buy a caviar black 500GB drive. The caviar blacks are considered extremely reliable. On pcpartpicker it is £59.99.


Brian

Yep, Caviar Black has 5 years warranty. From my experience they are very reliable, but pricey due to that warranty. From what I have heard Green drives have high failure rate. Seagate kind of lost their reputation some time ago, and they also cut the warranty to 1 year on all their desktop drives. Samsung HDDs are now owned by Seagate.

I had no Seagate or Western Digital drive fail on me yet, but have two Samsung drives to have bad blocks over time (Same model. RMAed it once, second started to fail 2 years later).

But it's really a luck game these days, but with Western Digital Caviar Black, at least, you get 5 year warranty.

Blues aren't bad either in my experience, but I only had 2 2.5" Blue drives, and they are still working fine.

I would buy this (or something similar). Then you will have more room for future upgrades. Also less stress on IMC.
You could also save few bucks on a motherboard since 3550 cannot be overclocked, and go with H series chipset

LGA1155 only support dual channel. So 2 sticks vs 4 sticks will give you the same performance. Performance will hurt if you use 1 or 3 sticks. Need for 32GB depends. For gaming? Not anytime soon. For heavy video editing, 3D modeling and etc. -might be useful.

As for motherboard, that was a suggestion to look around for similar loaded boards but on H77 chipset since they might be cheaper. I don't have anything specific in mind.