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Hi, Ive been lurking on these forums for a while now. I'm going to build my first PC soon, I just wanted to know if these specs are ok and if everything goes well together.

Im not set on the SSD so it may change to another brand. Is there be anything else i should get?



I have a few questions about my components;

Is my motherboard compatible with the processor?
Is the power supply enough for the pc?
I went with 1600 RAM is there any difference with higher and lower ones?
Should i go with a different cooler or is the H80 still good?

Thanks in advance for all your help
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Originally Posted by -lefty View Post

Hi, Ive been lurking on these forums for a while now. I'm going to build my first PC soon, I just wanted to know if these specs are ok and if everything goes well together.

Im not set on the SSD so it may change to another brand. Is there be anything else i should get?



I have a few questions about my components;

Is my motherboard compatible with the processor? YES

Is the power supply enough for the pc? YES

I went with 1600 RAM is there any difference with higher and lower ones? Not at all, only in benchmarks, but not in game.

Should i go with a different cooler or is the H80 still good? Good for 3570k

Thanks in advance for all your help
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Everything match.
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That's a lot of PSU for what you have there. You'd be fine with a quality 550W, and then you could put the difference into a 660 Ti instead of the 660.
 
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Welcome to the PC master race!

Very solid build so far! 16GB memory is probably overkill depending on what you do, that money could go into something else like getting the TI version of that graphics card. 1600 speed is perfect for you. And the power supply is fine as well, a bit much currently but considering SLI/upgrades down the road its great. I would probably go with the H100i rather than the H80i as your case can hold it and will give you more cooling performance for the same cost. I can personally recommend the H100i
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Good luck, and have fun building it!
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Thank you all for your advice, I'll look into the 660 TI, just looking to see how much power it needs.

I can change the RAM to 8GB, i have been looking at the 660 TI but there are different version and im not really sure which one to get as EVGA has multiple one such as signature series.

Thanks again for all your help
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You don't need 16 GB unless you do extreme multi-tasking, I barely use 5 GB on my system and I have 16 GB available. (Maybe 1866mhz RAM could be nice though)

Save on the memory and get a GTX 660 TI. If you play in 1080p, get a 2GB version, if you play above this (Ex:1440p or 1600p) get the 3GB version. I would honestly get the cheapest GTX 660ti.
 
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PCPartPicker part list

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Macho Rev.A (£38.03 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£95.40 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Samsung 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£57.96 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Plextor M5S Series 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£82.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card (£234.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.22 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£49.98 @ Novatech)
Total: £866.50
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-01-13 14:29 GMT+0000)

AX760i aka overpriced stuff. Same goes for the H80i.

Drop to a good 550W or 600W PSU (Corsair/Seasonic are overpriced) and get a Thermalright Macho, its £38 and it will cool just as good as an H80i in Quiet Mode.

Then use the extra money for a better SSD like the Plextor M5S and a Radeon HD 7950 which is a great card and has FAR better value than Nvidia current cards.

Also, go with the Samsung Magic Memory which is cheap and overclocks great. 8GB is fine.

If you don't need a 2TB HDD I have thrown in the Western Digital WD10EZEX which altrough being a Caviar Blue perform better than the current drives and has a single 1TB-platter.
If you want to stick with 2TB I would keep the Seagate you chose.
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Thanks, Ive gone down to 8GB, im still looking at the 660 TI.

I read on the forums here that the Crucial M4 is a pretty good SSD, so I' m looking at the Crucial 128GB M4

Its just the Power Supply and the cooler that I'm still a bit unsure about.

Also is there much of a difference between the GA-Z77-D3H and the GA-Z77X-D3H, looking online there doesn't seem to be?

Edit; The 2TB is for games, i have another drive for data
 
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Also is there much of a difference between the GA-Z77-D3H and the GA-Z77X-D3H, looking online there doesn't seem to be?
Biggest difference is that the Z77 only has a single PCIe 3.0 slot, where the Z77X has two. I'm not sure if the Z77 has the "ultra durable" stuff the Z77X has either. On balance, though, I'd get the Z77X.
 
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Originally Posted by -lefty View Post

Hi, Ive been lurking on these forums for a while now. I'm going to build my first PC soon, I just wanted to know if these specs are ok and if everything goes well together.

Im not set on the SSD so it may change to another brand. Is there be anything else i should get?



I have a few questions about my components;

Is my motherboard compatible with the processor?
Is the power supply enough for the pc?
I went with 1600 RAM is there any difference with higher and lower ones?
Should i go with a different cooler or is the H80 still good?

Thanks in advance for all your help
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Everything is compatible.
I recommend an NZXT havik 140 CPU cooler instead of the one you have; it is at a much better price point.
Higher speed RAM goes faster; 2133MHz is the best with an Ivy bridge chip, but it really doesn't matter that much any more with Intel
You can support a GTX 670 with a 500 watt power supply.

Otherwise, everything you have there is good.
 
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Biggest difference is that the Z77 only has a single PCIe 3.0 slot, where the Z77X has two. I'm not sure if the Z77 has the "ultra durable" stuff the Z77X has either. On balance, though, I'd get the Z77X.
Well they both have Ultra Durable 4 Classic = Ultra Durable 4 minus 2oz Copper PCB, only the UD3H+ has it (but its more a marketing thing than something really useful, I recall there was a review back on EP45-UD3R days which was the first motherboard with that technology and they got like +30 MHz on the memory, not something actually significant).
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I recommend an NZXT havik 140 CPU cooler instead of the one you have; it is at a much better price point.
Yeah, the Havik has often a good value but the Thermalright Macho kills it for £38.

More than 1600 MHz on the memory will not bring any significant difference. And AMD GPUs are the way to go right now, Kepler is expensive and has bit crippled memory (both in quantity and bandwidth).
 
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never mind
 
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Changes I would do:
http://www.ebuyer.com/370161-sandisk-240gb-extreme-ssd-sdssdx-240g-g25
http://www.ebuyer.com/413805-xfx-proseries-550w-power-supply-unit-core-edition-p1-550s-xxb9
http://www.ebuyer.com/399212-sapphire-hd-7950-3gb-gddr5-dvi-hdmi-dual-mini-displayport-pci-e-graphics-11196-16-20g

The Samsung has TLC NAND and the Sandisk Extreme has higher IOPS count, the XFX 550W unit is recommended by OCN and will be more than enough for your rig, and a 7950 which is a significantly more powerful cards than the 660 Ti and has more memory bandwidth.
 
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The Samsung has TLC NAND and the Sandisk Extreme has higher IOPS count, the XFX 550W unit is recommended by OCN and will be more than enough for your rig, and a 7950 which is a significantly more powerful cards than the 660 Ti and has more memory bandwidth.
Ok, so I tried to read through Sean's SSD guide and I'm a bit confused about TRIM, is it something I have to enable in windows? I'm also looking at the Crucial M4 as Ive seen its a reliable drive
 
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