Building for a friend.

2009-05-01 06:38:46

#1

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7106|Reykjavík, Iceland.

He's going for it sometime this summer, his main requirement is being able to run Starcraft 2 smoothly at max settings.

Here's what I had in mind:

Gigabyte P43-ES3G
E7400
F7P
Mushkin 2x2GB PC8500
Gigabyte HD4850
Thermaltake Purepower 500w
Antec Three Hundred

What do you reckon?

2009-05-01 06:43:50

#2

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6677|Finland

Change the PSU. That failed stresstest in few reviews.

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2009-05-01 06:45:35

#3

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7106|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Cooler Master eXtreme 460w ?

2009-05-01 06:46:28

#4

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6677|Finland

Sydney wrote:
Cooler Master eXtreme 460w ?

Corsair CX400W

or vx450w.

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2009-05-01 06:47:45)

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2009-05-01 06:48:40

#5

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7106|Reykjavík, Iceland.

I would preferably buy everything from the same store, and the store I'm buying the rest from has no Corsair

http://tolvutaekni.is/index.php?cPath=24_38

Last edited by Sydney (2009-05-01 06:48:56)

2009-05-01 16:52:35

#6

TopHat01: Limitless; +117|6168|CA

Maybe a 1200/P182/HAF instead of the 300?

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2009-05-01 17:00:30

#7

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6830|NYC / Hamburg

TopHat01 wrote:
Maybe a 1200/P182/HAF instead of the 300?

300 is a great budget case.

I wouldn't worry about the PSU too much. You won't be putting anything near the max load on it.

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2009-05-01 17:14:33

#8

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7106|Reykjavík, Iceland.

max wrote:
TopHat01 wrote:
Maybe a 1200/P182/HAF instead of the 300?
300 is a great budget case.

I wouldn't worry about the PSU too much. You won't be putting anything near the max load on it.

CM or TT then?

2009-05-01 17:22:27

#9

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6830|NYC / Hamburg

The CM only gives you 26A on the 12V rail. Rather weak. Go for the TT

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2009-05-01 20:29:32