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Case: Corsair Carbide 500R, White
PSU: Seasonic M12II 520W (80+ Bronze, full modular)
Mobo: Asus P8P67 PRO 3.1
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K
Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
RAM: G.SKILL Ares 8GB (2x 4GB)
SSD: Crucial M4 128GB
HDD: n/a (for now)
Optical: ASUS 24x DVD Burner
Video: MSI Twin Frozr - GTX 560 Ti (Fermi)
OS: Win 7 Pro OEM (no .edu email address)
Hrm. Forgot my OS, which puts me up to ~$1,220 even with the combo deal on Mobo and CPU.
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I think the prevelance of LED post codes on higher end motherboards is somewhat obsoleting these, which is unfortunate to be sure.
I like this build. That's a pretty spot on list of things that I would pick out for this kind of build. You could probably find some savings by changing cases, but I'm a believer in spending on a nice case, since it takes way way longer for a nice case to become outdated than almost any other hardware.
I have one that came with an old $40 case. It's a treasured possession that I will never allow to leave my sight.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200279
and found it for $350 on overstock.com
Is there a better option? or is that about on par with everything else.
He is more or less going to use it for music, movies, internet, video editing software and maybe a bit of gaming.
He's against the idea of building his own laptop he thinks it'd be too hard to put together in such a small case.
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Building a laptop on a budget that size is going to be hard, period. That seems decent for the price, there might be slightly better things out there, but it's certainly not a bad deal for $350.
You can get a massive laptop at the price- @ christmass. If they can wait. I would wager not.
That is what confuses me though ^^. It says Green and that its' speed is 7200rpm.
example: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Desktop-WD20EARX/dp/B004VFJ9MK/ref=pd_cp_e_3
"WD Caviar Green hard drives provide high capacity storage while using up to 40% less power than traditional 7200 RPM drives. In addition, these hard drives are quieter and cooler than traditional 7200 RPM drives."
Just remove the word "traditional" from both sentences and it makes sense. That's a clever bit of subliminal marketing, right there.
a corsair 90gb force 3 SSD as a boot
a 1TB WD Caviar green as main storage and extra programs drive
a 30 gb OCX SSD that was my old boot drive but i don't knwo what to do with it now
i have steam and i think office installed on my WD Green and it doesn't take an extraordinary amount of time to load things, it is pretty snappy. granted its no SSD but i doubt you could tell a difference between that and a 7200
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Granted, the difference between an SSD and a HDD is way bigger, but going from 5400 to 7200 is also pretty big.
About the build: Took a surprising amount of pressure to close the two leavers for the CPU, I was a bit worried. Back faceplate was a pain to put in because there was a fan blocking view of it. The SATA cables that came with the motherboard posed a bit of a problem: one end of the the cable is bent (the connector is in an L shape). It can't be used on the motherboard end because it's too close to the case, the problem came when attaching my SSD, which is housed in a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter which can hold 2 2.5" drives. Because it was on the lower slot and the adapter stuck out beyond the end of the drive, I couldn't attach the SATA cable. I ended up moving it to the upper slot in the adapter.
Running fine right now, CPU sits at 31C in BIOS.
Cheers!
You're running a $580 SB-E quad-channel CPU/MoBo with a single 4GB stick of RAM? o_O
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Easily upgradeable. I'll probably add an extra 4GB when I upgrade the GPU in a while.
I think the basis for his surprise is that the main (only?) reason to go with that architecture is for the memory support.
Edit: But then I seem to recall we already rode this merry-go-round.
I was just mulling over this same decision, but I'm leaning towards going with this WD Green 2TB internal HDD. $140 for 2TB seems fairly reasonable to me.
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I love a good merry-go-round! Especially when combined with your avatar (although this may lead to puking).
This is what I pulled out of my computer today.
Is it normal for the PC to get that dusty after only 2 months or should I blame my cat?
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Also yeah having a cat will contribute a lot to the dust buildup
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Just be extra careful about cleaning regularly and you'll be fine
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/69890/newegg-crucial-m4-2.5-sata-iii-mlc-internal-solid-state-drives-ssd-64gb-ssd-ct064m4ssd2-65-128gb-ssd-ct128m4ssd2-130-256gb-ssd-ct256m4ssd2-280
I used the 10% off coupon I got a few weeks ago and nabbed the 128GB one.
Man I am excited about the potential for blistering speed.
I don't see the need to max out a build as soon as it's built. I choose to upgrade it over time. I could have gotten another 4GB or a better video card now, but I find it better to wait until it's necessary when I could could see reduced prices or, in the case of video cards, another generation of hardware.
"You've wasted your money, so you should waste some more" is bad advice.
Sorry I haven't been following your build experience and I'm sure a lot of people have probably stressed almost to a fault that point, but a second 4gb stick would have been a better investment than an incrementally better video card than whatever one you where looking at before. hell at the $20 price difference you probably could have gotten both by shopping around the different brands of that card and playing on the little price fluxuations.
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Think of it like an ironic mustache. A single 4gb RAM stick in a SB-E machine is for the purpose of irony, man. It's a hipster computer. That machine is the Sleigh Bells of the Build Thread. I can only hope it has a 19" CRT to act as the metaphorical trucker hat.
Is there anything I should know? I've been told that the idea is "if you don't think there's enough on there, then you put too much on."
With that in mind I'm pretty sure what i did was overkill last time I put it together.
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Basically that. Imagine a pea-sized amount and then cut that roughly in half. Unless you eat those little tiny peas. Then just use a whole pea. But those peas are weird. That's my usual rule of thumb, anyway.
A lot of people consider spreading the pea-drop of paste to be pretty much useless, but I have to admit that my superstition does not allow me to avoid spreading it out. Logically, the amount of pressure is plenty to spread out the paste just fine without any assistance, but I do like to make sure.
I agree with you, I think most of us are just cringing in pain at someone basically crippling their system (which one 4GB stick does to a quad channel SB-E setup), and ignoring the advice of those of us who know for a fact it's crippling his system...but refuses to do anything about it, because he thinks he knows best. So we're poking a little fun. At any rate, you're right, it probably needs to end. His money, if he wants to knowingly cripple his expensive enthusiast chip set, that's his business.