Computers Help building my first gaming rig - Page 14

**Shogun** · 07:47 PM

The PC vs Console thread really got me going (although, I've been wanting to do this for some time) I want to build a nice gaming rig that I can use to play some PC exclusives on as well as not having to worry about it being slow as hell compared to my POS laptop.

What I want -

1. Must be able to run graphics at med/high settings. (770 card?)
2. I'd like to have good storage for movies/music (I don't know the advantages/differences of an SSD/HDD.
3. I'd like to have an HDMI port so I can move it into my living room on the big screen.
4. I do need a monitor. Undecided whether or not I want to run a dual/tri monitor setup yet.
5. I still burn CD's and Dvds. Will need a drive that supports both.
6. 8 GB of Ram at least with options to upgrade to 16gb in the future.

To sum It up I want a Rig that can do it all with little to no issues speed wise. I have a budget of around $1000, which is pretty flexible.

I also like pretty things. So I'm not afraid to spend a little more on a nicer case. Am a big fan of the Cooler Master Stryker case, I love the cases with the windows in the side with LEDS.

If anybody would like to help me I would greatly appreciate it. I just want to be apart of the PC master race.

EDIT:

This is build I am going with, unless I find good deals on better components.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($174.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($86.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($312.99 @ B&H)
Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Case Fan: Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($27.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $1268.85
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-26 20:46 EST-0500)

**hometeam** · 01-09-2014, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Simply for me to brag. I just hope all my rebates come in. Some things I have already. (The SSD was free with a net top PC I built previously) I have 360 Controllers from my two RROD Xboxes. Mouse and keyboard from my previous computer. etc.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $222.00)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright TS-120M(BW) 56.2 CFM CPU Cooler (Purchased For $42.90)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $7.49)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (Purchased For $84.99)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $59.99)
Storage: A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $69.00)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $74.99)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card (Purchased For $279.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Case Fan: Rosewill RFA-80-K 33.2 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $4.99)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 660W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $79.99)
Other: Raygo Computer Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Other: Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver (Purchased For $16.99)
Total: $948.31
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-09 12:31 EST-0500)

The other nice thing is all I have to upgrade is the motherboard and I can get some SLI to fit under the Power supply. Not bad.

Very powerful rig for the price.

WANNA RACE

ragedogg69 · 01-09-2014, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Very powerful rig for the price.

WANNA RACE

Knowing you have a 780? No thanks. You win.

My build could have been even cheaper if I was not doing emulators. (That is what the 2TB Green drive is for) Also if I stuck with the supplied thermal compound (Apparently, that can cost you 3 degrees of cooling under load.) and a cheaper motherboard. (I wanted headroom for overclocking, plus this is my 3rd build with Asrock and I love them.)

Hell, I might of been able to get it under $800 if done right. lol

**hometeam** · 01-09-2014, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

Knowing you have a 780? No thanks. You win.

My build could have been even cheaper if I was not doing emulators. (That is what the 2TB Green drive is for) Also if I stuck with the supplied thermal compound (Apparently, that can cost you 3 degrees of cooling under load.) and a cheaper motherboard. (I wanted headroom for overclocking, plus this is my 3rd build with Asrock and I love them.)

Hell, I might of been able to get it under $800 if done right. lol

Are you going to delid the CPU? If not, look into it, THAT is where your big gains are going to be with thermal compound.

I also love my Asrock board and any others I have used in builds over the years.

TBH I am a little jealous of these 'budget' builds, because they come so close to matching my big budget machine in many ways. I did also build my machine at the very release of the x79 chipset and 3930k, so I payed the price.

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

ragedogg69 · 01-09-2014, 02:19 PM

Delid sounds so scary. If I ever have temperature or noise issues, I will probably do it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

I am also hoping quieter. As of right now, my rig is slightly louder watching a movie (idle) than my previous HTPC, but that is to be expected. If I can find my decibel meter, I will post the results.

TheUte · 01-10-2014, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Are you going to delid the CPU? If not, look into it, THAT is where your big gains are going to be with thermal compound.

I also love my Asrock board and any others I have used in builds over the years.

TBH I am a little jealous of these 'budget' builds, because they come so close to matching my big budget machine in many ways. I did also build my machine at the very release of the x79 chipset and 3930k, so I payed the price.

Still, kudos, you built a machine along the lines of 2.5-3x as powerful as an xbox one for a little more than 1.5x the price. (had to get my console dig in there)

Have you delided? Yeah its not right but.

If so did you use a the Knife method or the Vise?

One of my 3770k might got back under water so I'm thinking of deliding at the same time.

**hometeam** · 01-10-2014, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheUte

Have you delided? Yeah its not right but.

If so did you use a the Knife method or the Vise?

One of my 3770k might got back under water so I'm thinking of deliding at the same time.

I have a 3930k, which is sandy bridge-E, which requires no delidding, only Haswell chips need to be delidded.

You would think that Intel would catch on and change the manufacturing process to include the right thermal paste from the start, after seeing the enthusiast community playing lab technician with retail processors.

I have seen both methods, and if I was going to do it, I think I would feel more comfortable with the vice method, but its all speculation from my end.

**notorious** · 01-10-2014, 05:24 PM

Alright, I am ready to get a card.

An Asus GTX 660 is now $179 at Newegg, with a $20 gift card.

The Asus GTX 760 is $239 at Microcenter.

We are looking at an 80 dollar difference in price for a 20% increase in performance. It is going in an Inspiron, so overclocking is probably not going to happen.

Is the extra cash worth it? I have an I5 3000 series processor with 16 gb of ram. I will probably play games like Dayz a lot in the future.

Oh, and any budget power supply suggestions are welcome.

**hometeam** · 01-10-2014, 06:48 PM

definitely get the 760. ****, spend the extra and get the 770 on gk110 instead of gk104

Also, if you dont mind shopping used check out www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap . 670s are bringing about 200, and i bet you can get a 770 (gk110!) for that 240 price.

Setsuna · 01-12-2014, 11:58 AM

I got sapphire hd 7750

**notorious** · 01-12-2014, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Setsuna

I got sapphire hd 7750

I have circled back to a 7750 over and over.

$80 for a 1600 Benchmark score. Not too bad.

I wouldn't need to upgrade the power supply, either.

With business being soooo busy, I don't have time to play much, so I don't know if I want to go "All-In" right now. A 7750 would be a very cheap hold-over until next winter.

Besides, I don't know if a 660 Inspiron has enough airflow for the beast cards. It has been the perfect business/school computer so far, with a little "Left 4 Dead", "Wolfenstein", and "HL2" mixed in.

**hometeam** · 01-12-2014, 12:05 PM

what benchmark?

**notorious** · 01-12-2014, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

what benchmark?

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gp...HD+7750&id=321

Hopefully they are accurate.

**hometeam** · 01-12-2014, 12:33 PM

Ahh passmark. They are accurate when comparing to other passmark scores, and should give a good idea of general performance.

Just for shits and giggles I downloaded it and did mine. I scored 8385 for d3d

**notorious** · 01-12-2014, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hometeam

Ahh passmark. They are accurate when comparing to other passmark scores, and should give a good idea of general performance.

Just for shits and giggles I downloaded it and did mine. I scored 8385 for d3d

JFC

**notorious** · 01-12-2014, 12:57 PM

Sigh.

I got the Dell in December for $409. I simply couldn't resist the deal for an I5 3rd gen, 16gb ram, etc.

Now I am realizing the bottlenecks that the Inspiron has. Power supply, air flow, etc.

11-24-2013, 01:27 PM
Shogun The White Skip Bayless Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Olathe Casino cash: $9477174	Help building my first gaming rig The PC vs Console thread really got me going (although, I've been wanting to do this for some time) I want to build a nice gaming rig that I can use to play some PC exclusives on as well as not having to worry about it being slow as hell compared to my POS laptop. What I want - 1. Must be able to run graphics at med/high settings. (770 card?) 2. I'd like to have good storage for movies/music (I don't know the advantages/differences of an SSD/HDD. 3. I'd like to have an HDMI port so I can move it into my living room on the big screen. 4. I do need a monitor. Undecided whether or not I want to run a dual/tri monitor setup yet. 5. I still burn CD's and Dvds. Will need a drive that supports both. 6. 8 GB of Ram at least with options to upgrade to 16gb in the future. To sum It up I want a Rig that can do it all with little to no issues speed wise. I have a budget of around $1000, which is pretty flexible. I also like pretty things. So I'm not afraid to spend a little more on a nicer case. Am a big fan of the Cooler Master Stryker case, I love the cases with the windows in the side with LEDS. If anybody would like to help me I would greatly appreciate it. I just want to be apart of the PC master race. EDIT: This is build I am going with, unless I find good deals on better components. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2 Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2/by_merchant/ Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/287w2/benchmarks/ CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($219.98 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($174.98 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($86.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($89.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.98 @ OutletPC) Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card ($312.99 @ B&H) Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Newegg) Case Fan: Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 37.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($27.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Newegg) Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.00 @ Amazon) Total: $1268.85 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-26 20:46 EST-0500) Last edited by Shogun; 11-26-2013 at 07:47 PM..
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01-10-2014, 05:24 PM	#202
notorious Supporter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Who knows? Casino cash: $2955884	Alright, I am ready to get a card. An Asus GTX 660 is now $179 at Newegg, with a $20 gift card. The Asus GTX 760 is $239 at Microcenter. We are looking at an 80 dollar difference in price for a 20% increase in performance. It is going in an Inspiron, so overclocking is probably not going to happen. Is the extra cash worth it? I have an I5 3000 series processor with 16 gb of ram. I will probably play games like Dayz a lot in the future. Oh, and any budget power supply suggestions are welcome.
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01-10-2014, 06:48 PM	#203
hometeam Supporter Join Date: Jul 2011 Casino cash: $4141956	definitely get the 760. ****, spend the extra and get the 770 on gk110 instead of gk104 Also, if you dont mind shopping used check out www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap . 670s are bringing about 200, and i bet you can get a 770 (gk110!) for that 240 price.
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01-12-2014, 11:58 AM	#204
Setsuna Paladin Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Gator Country Casino cash: $10008487	I got sapphire hd 7750
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01-12-2014, 12:05 PM	#206
hometeam Supporter Join Date: Jul 2011 Casino cash: $4141956	what benchmark?
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01-12-2014, 12:33 PM	#208
hometeam Supporter Join Date: Jul 2011 Casino cash: $4141956	Ahh passmark. They are accurate when comparing to other passmark scores, and should give a good idea of general performance. Just for shits and giggles I downloaded it and did mine. I scored 8385 for d3d
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01-12-2014, 12:57 PM	#210
notorious Supporter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Who knows? Casino cash: $2955884	Sigh. I got the Dell in December for $409. I simply couldn't resist the deal for an I5 3rd gen, 16gb ram, etc. Now I am realizing the bottlenecks that the Inspiron has. Power supply, air flow, etc.
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