OMGAFRISBEE wrote:No computer is complete without Minecraft.
On that note I thought I'd share a video of this amazing game with you all! CLICK HERE
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Elite-Hawk wrote:
ProjectVRD wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
James91 wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
Spike84598 wrote:
Does anyone download games through torrents to see how they run on your computer?
Yes I have previously, but with my new rig in the works I won't have to anymore
These are the parts i'm going to order:
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£170.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£78.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£32.99 @ Ebuyer)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.88 @ Dabs)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card (£178.94 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 500R (£85.38 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair 650W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£74.98 @ Dabs)
Total: £669.14
Might change the 560 Ti for either a 570 or wait for one of the 600 series cards, ordered my monitor aswel which should arrive sometime next week.
Good build that for the price! Suprised the HDD wasn't more expensive than it is. Remember too that the AMD 7000 series is coming out now in the new year so it could also push the nVidia 500 cards down in price.
What cooler are you getting on it for your CPU?
Yeah I might hold off on the graphics card right now since Nvidia and AMD are both refreshing their cards, hopefully the 570 gets cheaperThe harddries are varying in price alot, a week ago I found a 1TB WD for £53, I may just get a 500GB drive for the moment because I also want to get a 120GB SDD aswel.
I intend on picking up a Corsair H100 later on when i'm ready to overclock the processor, I don't really wanna wait for the Ivy Bridge as EVERYBODY recommends the 2500k and looks like it suits my needs fine.
Try and find some comparison charts for the H100 against a Megahelem II.
These Megahelems are supposedly really good and being aircooled they are less of a pain to set up and maintain. I have one but cannot give you reliable temperatures because I checked my thermal paste yesterday and it is baked... so I just ordered some IC Diamond to replace and I will then report back. But even with baked thermal paste my idle temp is about 37 degree's and that is with an i7-930.
The folks on overclockers reckon that I would be able to see nearly room temperature idle temps and 60 degree loads with a 4GHz overclock, let alone the standard clock settings.
The H100s only trouble is the set up, apparantly you don't have to maintain them and you can just leave them. I don't want anything that requires me to apply thermal paste as I don't trust myself with it, the H100 is also made for my case so it will be a better fit and such.
It looks like a good reliable one and not too expensive (£80)
I think you might still need thermal paste there mate, the only form of cooling I have heard about which didn't need any was to dump the whole PC in mineral oil. There are folks on the overclockers.co.uk forums who say these H series water coolers work best with IC Diamond because it is non-conductive.
Having never used this sort of cooler though, I would recommend you go and ask them because they are totally clued up on this sort thing.
If you don't have an account or don't want to create one, let me know and I will go and ask for you but they will probably ask for what processor you are using because they will try and recommend something that isn't over the top... that IC Diamond stuff might be regarded as over the top if you are running a dual core.
AstroZombie1 wrote:
OMGAFRISBEE wrote:No computer is complete without Minecraft.
On that note I thought I'd share a video of this amazing game with you all! CLICK HERE
Minecraft is the con of the decade.
Level 5
ProjectVRD wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
ProjectVRD wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
James91 wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
Spike84598 wrote:
Does anyone download games through torrents to see how they run on your computer?
Yes I have previously, but with my new rig in the works I won't have to anymore
These are the parts i'm going to order:
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£170.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£78.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£32.99 @ Ebuyer)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.88 @ Dabs)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card (£178.94 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 500R (£85.38 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair 650W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£74.98 @ Dabs)
Total: £669.14
Might change the 560 Ti for either a 570 or wait for one of the 600 series cards, ordered my monitor aswel which should arrive sometime next week.
Good build that for the price! Suprised the HDD wasn't more expensive than it is. Remember too that the AMD 7000 series is coming out now in the new year so it could also push the nVidia 500 cards down in price.
What cooler are you getting on it for your CPU?
Yeah I might hold off on the graphics card right now since Nvidia and AMD are both refreshing their cards, hopefully the 570 gets cheaper
I intend on picking up a Corsair H100 later on when i'm ready to overclock the processor, I don't really wanna wait for the Ivy Bridge as EVERYBODY recommends the 2500k and looks like it suits my needs fine.
Try and find some comparison charts for the H100 against a Megahelem II.
These Megahelems are supposedly really good and being aircooled they are less of a pain to set up and maintain. I have one but cannot give you reliable temperatures because I checked my thermal paste yesterday and it is baked... so I just ordered some IC Diamond to replace and I will then report back. But even with baked thermal paste my idle temp is about 37 degree's and that is with an i7-930.
The folks on overclockers reckon that I would be able to see nearly room temperature idle temps and 60 degree loads with a 4GHz overclock, let alone the standard clock settings.
The H100s only trouble is the set up, apparantly you don't have to maintain them and you can just leave them. I don't want anything that requires me to apply thermal paste as I don't trust myself with it, the H100 is also made for my case so it will be a better fit and such.
It looks like a good reliable one and not too expensive (£80)
I think you might still need thermal paste there mate, the only form of cooling I have heard about which didn't need any was to dump the whole PC in mineral oil. There are folks on the overclockers.co.uk forums who say these H series water coolers work best with IC Diamond because it is non-conductive.
Having never used this sort of cooler though, I would recommend you go and ask them because they are totally clued up on this sort thing.
If you don't have an account or don't want to create one, let me know and I will go and ask for you but they will probably ask for what processor you are using because they will try and recommend something that isn't over the top... that IC Diamond stuff might be regarded as over the top if you are running a dual core.
H100 has it's paste pre-applied (I'm sure) to it so you don't need to use your own, i've looked at various installation videos and my friend just recently installed his. Using your own probably is better than the pre-applied one though. I'll create an account there anyway as i'm going to have loads of questions with all these parts Thanks for the advice though.
Level 5
Elite-Hawk wrote:
ProjectVRD wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
ProjectVRD wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
James91 wrote:
Elite-Hawk wrote:
Spike84598 wrote:
Does anyone download games through torrents to see how they run on your computer?
Yes I have previously, but with my new rig in the works I won't have to anymore
These are the parts i'm going to order:
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£170.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V LX ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£78.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£32.99 @ Ebuyer)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 750GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£45.88 @ Dabs)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card (£178.94 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 500R (£85.38 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair 650W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£74.98 @ Dabs)
Total: £669.14
Might change the 560 Ti for either a 570 or wait for one of the 600 series cards, ordered my monitor aswel which should arrive sometime next week.
Good build that for the price! Suprised the HDD wasn't more expensive than it is. Remember too that the AMD 7000 series is coming out now in the new year so it could also push the nVidia 500 cards down in price.
What cooler are you getting on it for your CPU?
Yeah I might hold off on the graphics card right now since Nvidia and AMD are both refreshing their cards, hopefully the 570 gets cheaper
I intend on picking up a Corsair H100 later on when i'm ready to overclock the processor, I don't really wanna wait for the Ivy Bridge as EVERYBODY recommends the 2500k and looks like it suits my needs fine.
Try and find some comparison charts for the H100 against a Megahelem II.
These Megahelems are supposedly really good and being aircooled they are less of a pain to set up and maintain. I have one but cannot give you reliable temperatures because I checked my thermal paste yesterday and it is baked... so I just ordered some IC Diamond to replace and I will then report back. But even with baked thermal paste my idle temp is about 37 degree's and that is with an i7-930.
The folks on overclockers reckon that I would be able to see nearly room temperature idle temps and 60 degree loads with a 4GHz overclock, let alone the standard clock settings.
The H100s only trouble is the set up, apparantly you don't have to maintain them and you can just leave them. I don't want anything that requires me to apply thermal paste as I don't trust myself with it, the H100 is also made for my case so it will be a better fit and such.
It looks like a good reliable one and not too expensive (£80)
I think you might still need thermal paste there mate, the only form of cooling I have heard about which didn't need any was to dump the whole PC in mineral oil. There are folks on the overclockers.co.uk forums who say these H series water coolers work best with IC Diamond because it is non-conductive.
Having never used this sort of cooler though, I would recommend you go and ask them because they are totally clued up on this sort thing.
If you don't have an account or don't want to create one, let me know and I will go and ask for you but they will probably ask for what processor you are using because they will try and recommend something that isn't over the top... that IC Diamond stuff might be regarded as over the top if you are running a dual core.
H100 has it's paste pre-applied (I'm sure) to it so you don't need to use your own, i've looked at various installation videos and my friend just recently installed his. Using your own probably is better than the pre-applied one though. I'll create an account there anyway as i'm going to have loads of questions with all these parts
Anytime, and yeah if you have any questions then they will defo have the answers you are looking for. They have helped me get my overclock temp down from 100C after three minutes use in Prime 95 down to a nice 60C constant use in Prime 95... all because my thermal paste was baked and my voltage was too high.
They are a good group. 
Does it have to be one of those two?
KC-alpha-14 wrote:Looking for some advice. I'm not wanting to play massively big games but this is more for school. Which one of these two is the best?
http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Computer-Base-Units/buy-A
CER-ACEPTSDXE2117-Computer-Base-Unit/782920
Just need it for work/studies really. Any extra gaming prowess is brilliant. Ta.
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