Help building my first gaming rig

[hometeam]

Acer is better if you want to add more monitors later to do 4k gaming with your monster as **** 770 :P

[Shogun]

Yeah I think I'm getting 2 monitors.

So, those of you who are more informed than I am. I have read through a ton of the parts and picked what I thought would do well for me. With my current build, what type of system and performance am I getting? Have I done well with Price/bang for my buck?

[hometeam]

System will beast for a long time. Great build. Especially to keep stock.

edit: My only thought. If you are going to stay stock, if you can get the non K CPU cheaper, do so.

[Shogun]

Originally Posted by hometeam

System will beast for a long time. Great build. Especially to keep stock.

edit: My only thought. If you are going to stay stock, if you can get the non K CPU cheaper, do so.

I mentioned yessterday that I do plan on overclocking now

[notorious]

I can't find a benchmark for an ATI 8650M.


Does anyone know anything about this mobile card? It uses 2 GB of GDDR5 ram, but it's in a $500 laptop.

Something doesn't add up.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-17...spiron-17-3721

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by notorious

I can't find a benchmark for an ATI 8650M.


Does anyone know anything about this mobile card? It uses 2 GB of GDDR5 ram, but it's in a $500 laptop.

Something doesn't add up.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-17...spiron-17-3721

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Rad...M.87211.0.html

Decent, but I wouldn't expect great gaming performance from it.

[Shogun]

Does anybody here water cool their systems? Will my Evo cpu cooler do just as well?

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Shogun

Does anybody here water cool their systems? Will my Evo cpu cooler do just as well?

I water cool mine. And your air cooler will not do just as well. The h60 will get you 5 degrees cooler, and something like the h100i (what I use) was able to let me overclock my 3930k to over 5 GHZ stable without overheating. SO that gives you an idea. When you watercool, make sure your radiators can fit in your case.

I have since turned it down for longevity, but these easy install closed loop water coolers are nearly as good as a custom watercooling loop.

NZXT is taking preorders for a plug-n-play GPU watercooler that releases dec 10. DAMN I want it.

[jd1020]

The EVO WILL do just as good if not better than the H60.

http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...r212_evo/4.htm

1 degree lower, in half the tests, for nearly double the price. Those closed looped prefilled watercoolers are a rip off. They cost way too damn much for what they offer in cooling.

Save the money.

OCing isn't an exact science. You can build 3 identical computers with identical coolers and not achieve the same OCs. The EVO can get you to a stable 4.4-4.5ghz OC, which is perfectly fine.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by jd1020

The EVO WILL do just as good if not better than the H60.

http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...r212_evo/4.htm

1 degree lower, in half the tests, for nearly double the price. Those closed looped prefilled watercoolers are a rip off. They cost way too damn much for what they offer in cooling.

Save the money.

OCing isn't an exact science. You can build 3 identical computers with identical coolers and not achieve the same OCs. The EVO can get you to a stable 4.4-4.5ghz OC, which is perfectly fine.

I looked the other night at the h60, before I suggested he adopt it over the evo. I found several tests getting 5 degrees better, at lower noise. When I checked the other night, it was the same price as the air cooler.

I will never air cool a CPU ever again. And with the new NZXT closed loop water block, it really has me considering selling my 670 and picking up an r290x to watercool.

edit; after looking again, JD is correct in the fact that the h60 is twice as much. It is the price I thought it was, but the EVO I looked at was 60 dollars as well.

You can always upgrade your cooler later if you are having trouble achieving big overclocks.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by hometeam

I looked the other night at the h60, before I suggested he adopt it over the evo. I found several tests getting 5 degrees better, at lower noise. When I checked the other night, it was the same price as the air cooler.

I will never air cool a CPU ever again. And with the new NZXT closed loop water block, it really has me considering selling my 670 and picking up an r290x to watercool

Gonna have to provide a link to an H60 that only costs $30 and provide a chart that shows a 5 degree difference. Because I have never seen either.

[hometeam]

I just watched a comparison and in the guys system the h80 made a 10-12c difference over hyper 212 evo.

Again, it has everything to do with your case and configuration. I understand the difference in coolers. I am just the kind of guy that will pay extra for better performance, especially since I do such a big OC. I had my 3930k UNLOCKED all 6 cores at 5.1 GHZ stable. Was hitting around 80c under full load. I turned it down to 4.6 and now runs about 71c max (highest core)

Value-wise, the 212 is definitely better, because its next to free.

[The Franchise]

How hard is it to build your own system?

I mean what is the cost increase for a system like this if I went with Cyberpower PC?

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

How hard is it to build your own system?

I mean what is the cost increase for a system like this if I went with Cyberpower PC?

Save probably $500+ by building it yourself.

I just customized a pc on their site that used the majority of parts I used in mine I built not too long ago, and the rest of the parts were similarly sized/priced, and the total was $1,995.00

After MIR, I built mine myself for like $1300.

But If you aren't comfortable building it yourself, that $1,995 is still a pretty good deal when you compare it to a company like ****ing Alienware where that same computer would cost you like $3000.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

How hard is it to build your own system?

I mean what is the cost increase for a system like this if I went with Cyberpower PC?

It is very easy. The hardest part is making sure everything you pick is compatible with each other, and even that is quite easy.

Order your stuff, watch a youtube video, and you should be good to go.