Chaps! Halp me and my new compooper.

2011-05-26 03:23:45

#1

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

I was gonna go for an i5 last xmas, but the cunts at Intel decided to release sandy vag a few months after xmas, so I thought fuck it I'll wait... then I moved out, so couldn't afford a pc.

Next month I'm 21 and I'll be getting somewhere in the region of £1000 in the form of birthday money, wages, and tax rebate (shit yeah).

I'm desperately in need of a new pc.

I'm gonna bide my time and see what bulldozer does to the market, so we're talking august for this build.

Right now I'm thinking i5 2500k, 4gb memory, and a compatible motherboard (i am literally pants-on-head-retarded when it comes to motherboards).

Things I don't need.
Case - got my trusty chieftec dragon
GPU - got my bitchin' ass EVGA GTX460
Pewiphewals - got mouse, keyboard, projector.

Things I do need.
PSU (rocking a 6? year old enermax 565 watt, so the last thing I need is it to go bang, killing £600 of hardware, that would make me sadface
Mobo (as i said, no idea)
CPU - i5 2500k fo shizzle
Ram - 4gb would suffice in this day and age yah?

I know not a lot is going to change in teh next 3 months, unless Bulldozer is literally the dogs balls.

Karma and thanks all round for help.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-05-26 03:50:59

#2

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6405|'straya

RAM - 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X

Mobo- ASUS P8P67 or Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P -assuming you wan't overclocking capability but aren't planning on a good multi-graphics card setup (Both boards will run at 16x/4x if you want a multi card setup). MSI P67A-GD55 is another decent option, it has more features then the other boards, but of course MSI don't have anywhere near the rep of ASUS or Gigabyte.

PSU - Corsair TX650, HX650, or Antec TP-650 (whichever you can get the best price on). If you are planning multi card you would want something more like a HX850+.

2011-05-26 03:55:12

#3

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
RAM - 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X

Mobo- ASUS P8P67 or Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P -assuming you wan't overclocking capability but aren't planning on a good multi-graphics card setup (Both boards will run at 16x/4x if you want a multi card setup). MSI P67A-GD55 is another decent option, it has more features then the other boards, but of course MSI don't have anywhere near the rep of ASUS or Gigabyte.

PSU - Corsair TX650, HX650, or Antec TP-650 (whichever you can get the best price on). If you are planning multi card you would want something more like a HX850+.

Not planning on multi-gpu as of yet, my 460 has enough kick I feel for BF3.

I've heard bad stuff in the past about MSI, are they getting any better?

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-05-26 04:28:28

#4

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2011-05-26 04:40:36

#5

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

would it be worth the extra £5 to get 1600mhz memory rather than 1333?

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2011-05-26 04:42:57

#6

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/53672/build.JPG

how does that look?

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2011-05-26 04:53:52

#7

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6405|'straya

You will want this ram instead.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/264747

If I remember correctly Sandy Bridge prefers 1.5v RAM.

2011-05-26 04:59:54

#8

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

n1, ta

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2011-05-26 05:01:34

#9

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6695|King Of The Islands

That CPU would be £130 here (Australia, dude, Australia). Save yourself £50 and get the "free" accessory elsewhere.

I have had a bad experience with 1.6V RAM. Most cases they haven't cared what RAM (especially HyperX, bitches love HyperX), but gaddamn had to be the Corsair, didn't it. Replaced with Vengeance, everything went better than expected.

Strong vote on the 1.5V.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2011-05-26 05:08:21

#10

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

Cheez wrote:
That CPU would be £130 here (Australia, dude, Australia). Save yourself £50 and get the "free" accessory elsewhere.

I have had a bad experience with 1.6V RAM. Most cases they haven't cared what RAM (especially HyperX, bitches love HyperX), but gaddamn had to be the Corsair, didn't it. Replaced with Vengeance, everything went better than expected.

Strong vote on the 1.5V.

had a look, that seems to be the going rate for that cpu

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-05-26 05:15:51

#11

Shahter: Zee Ruskie; +295|7031|Moscow, Russia

Camm wrote:
've heard bad stuff in the past about MSI, are they getting any better?

since they started to build memory controllers and other shit into cpu's, it matters even less what kind o'motherboard you have than it did before when they had northbridges. the only things that remain to look for are overclocking options and components used, mainly capacitors and heatsinks. MSI P67A-G45 should do just fine.

if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.

2011-05-26 05:16:50

#12

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5224|Dundee, Scotland.

I'm not planning on overclocking it, even at stock speeds I'll be fucking blown away by the performance.

for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-05-26 05:17:07

#13

Zimmer: Un Moderador; +1,688|7012|Scotland

Would never buy G.Skill, that stuff was faulty on me 3 times in a row when I got my last upgrade.

OCZ or Corsair for RAM.

2011-05-26 05:24:12

#14

Little BaBy JESUS: m8; +394|6405|'straya

I have personally had absolutely no problems with G.Skill. I've got 20GB of G.Skill RAM installed in various PCs and have never had a faulty stick...

2011-05-26 05:27:03

#15

Shahter: Zee Ruskie; +295|7031|Moscow, Russia

Camm wrote:
I'm not planning on overclocking it, even at stock speeds I'll be fucking blown away by the performance.

it's better to have overclocking as an option, right? you might not need it ever, but if the difference is only a coupla bucks, why not?

if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.

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