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#27 Feb 13 2013 at 9:55 PM Rating: Excellent
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That Corsair SSd is a nice unit, its what I was running in my main until i upgraded to the twice as fast Samsung 840 Pro series 256 GB drive $230 at the moment from newegg, so $30 more for twice the Iops would definitly would be worth checking out. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193

Power supply will work for your system, though I second looking for a modular unit. Makes the build much easier.

Plan on getting a second one of those rotational 1TB drives and put both drives in a Raid 1 mirror array for backup purposes. Better to have your data on two spindles rather than just one for 5 years down the line when the drive fails.

That case is a nice unit, well built. Plenty of airflow.

I'd say go with 16GB ram over 8 since ram is dirt cheap still, most games won't use it, but some, especially MMO's will. Before you throw more money at a CPU though I'd consider either upgrading the video card, or putting it towards a larger power supply and a second video card to use in crossfire mode, assuming you have a decently large monitor to begin with. 650 is fine for a single card, but won't support duals.

Other than that, aside from the already mentioned pricing on the links you provided, looks good.
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#28 Feb 15 2013 at 9:52 AM Rating: Good
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Well I finally got a chance to get my system together, all the parts came yesterday. I am pleasantly surprised. I ran Planetside 2 set to High 55-70 FPS in smaller fights, 30-40 in medium/big fights fights. I the FPS meter said it was GPU capping with a bit of CPU capping outside of battle, and I havent even OC'ed yet.

The Intel reverse pins on the CPU was a bit freaky. Im used to the CPU having pins on the bottom not this Mobo has pins/cpu held in place by pressure type thing. Oh well live and learn. Also the i5 run hot compared to an AMD Phenom II. Idle temps are abut the same 31/32 vs 27/29 and underload around 50 degrees vs 45 ish. But I guess you can go into the high 60s and be safe on the Gen 3 i5's.

The Geforce 660 only has the need of 1 6in power, versus my 460 SE needing 2, but compared to the 460 the 660 is HUGE.

Also Nvidia is running a deal if you buy a 660 or higher card you get a code for Hawken, Planetside 2(Station Cash), and World of Tanks giving a 50 dollar credit in each (They are all F2P games) which I was excited by when I found that out.

The Mobo, while basic, had on board PW switch and Reset switch while not super useful overall was awesome for testing the system before finalizing the build, also has an LED display built on that gives BIOS codes (Versus trying to figure out Bios Beeps) which is kind of nice.

The only issue I ran into is for some reason bios doesn't recognize my G510 keyboard so to access it I had to pull out an old Microsoft KB and use that (Only to access the BIOS by hitting DEL, and in Bios. KB works fine in Windows).


Edited, Feb 15th 2013 9:53am by BeanX
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#29 Feb 17 2013 at 2:26 AM Rating: Good
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I know Kao built his water cooling system (And.. it's damn nice /drool) but I'd ditch that stock fan on the processor and go with one of these:

Corsair coolers

I've been using the H60 and haven't had any problems at all. They're only for cooling the processor, so you won't be able to cool anything else. Big bonus is they are hella quiet compared to that stock fan.
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#30 Feb 17 2013 at 5:26 AM Rating: Good
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I'm going to have to look into one of those. I just used my aftermarket from the AMD board the Coolmaster Hyper TX3. (Thermaltake V3 BE: This is the case I bought a few years ago, I really like it)

I actually had to take apart the system tonight I realized the fan on that heatsink was blowing the wrong way (Down into the case) isntead of Up out of the case. Then I realized the clearance between the Graphics card and CPU wouldnt allow adequate room for air to be sucked in. So I took my Heatsink off and turned it 90 degrees, so its blowing almost directly out the back (and into another fan that blows out also).

Honestly Im not to worried about heat ATM, Idle Im at 23-28, So far in game I'm hitting 47, and the cut off Im allowing is 70 (the lowest temp on the mobo for safety cut off) and I realized last night the turbo is kicking in automatically and OC'ing my CPU to 3.8. So on air I should be able to get up to 4.2 maybe higher I'm not sure. Otherwise everything is working great.


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#31 Feb 17 2013 at 12:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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Those Corsair coolers are nice. I've installed a couple of them in client computers now. We're still using the equivelent Intel water cooling ones at work for our high end engineering builds, but we'll be switching in the next revision because the intel ones are a pain in the *** to install. Once they're in, they work great. the corsair ones work the same, they are just much easier to get in the case in the first place.
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