krew790 Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Just bought a i7 970; great deal couldn't turn it down. Am im thinking of building a gaming rig; need suggestion on parts (not really my field; yes i know what they all do ect but not good a putting a pc together) So need some advice on parts i should use to build it within the $600 rage may be up to $800. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 (edited) I also got a core i7... About the cpu don't waste your money with overclok, it's now worth it.... i got a old 920 witch is 2.66 running at 3.20ghz for a year now with my box cooler and it's 1000% stable.. i think that 970 could do even 4ghz or so.. who knows... Motherboard: Go with asus rampage III gene it's cheap and if you're not doing over 2 GPU crossfire or sli it's the same as the rampage III extreme... RAM: Corsair Dominator GT, get yourself 6GB if u're not doing anything that really needs lots of ram, otherwise get that 12GB and the air flow, best ram i ever used GPU: I like nvidia, i'd get 2 GTX 580, and top vs top nvidia is always the best about price i'm gonna about it in just a sec.. PSU: i think 1200w will do just fine.. here in brazil it's kinda of expensive.. so i always do it in my way.. get 2 750w or 850w witch hellalot cheaper, get a 12v relay, black and green and use 2 psu instead of one, though i don't think you gonna need all of that to power up 2 GTX 580 if u actually wanted those.. maybe 4 of them would require a better psu.. i don't really know google about how many amps your GPU uses in the 12v rail.. HardDrive: Cheap? Raid0 with 2 regular western caviar drives, Badass? raid0 with 2 ssds FTW =D The rest you can figure out.. Hope i didn't miss anything.. Edited December 6, 2010 by Morpheus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 (edited) I also got a core i7... About the cpu don't waste your money with overclok, it's now worth it.... i got a old 920 witch is 2.66 running at 3.20ghz for a year now with my box cooler and it's 1000% stable.. i think that 970 could do even 4ghz or so.. who knows... Motherboard: Go with asus rampage III gene it's cheap and if you're not doing over 2 GPU crossfire or sli it's the same as the rampage III extreme... RAM: Corsair Dominator GT, get yourself 6GB if u're not doing anything that really needs lots of ram, otherwise get that 12GB and the air flow, best ram i ever used GPU: I like nvidia, i'd get 2 GTX 580, and top vs top nvidia is always the best about price i'm gonna about it in just a sec.. PSU: i think 1200w will do just fine.. here in brazil it's kinda of expensive.. so i always do it in my way.. get 2 750w or 850w witch hellalot cheaper, get a 12v relay, black and green and use 2 psu instead of one, though i don't think you gonna need all of that to power up 2 GTX 580 if u actually wanted those.. maybe 4 of them would require a better psu.. i don't really know google about how many amps your GPU uses in the 12v rail.. HardDrive: Cheap? Raid0 with 2 regular western caviar drives, Badass? raid0 with 2 ssds FTW =D The rest you can figure out.. Hope i didn't miss anything.. The nice thing I like about the new Nvidia GTX 580 graphics cards, is that their power consumption its a lot less than the former generations. They new ones consume around 250 watts compared to 500 or 700 watts. So if you are planning on running crossfire or Sli a 850 or 900 watts power supply should be enough. Raid 0 is not a bad option at all, if you are a performance freak like me, but make sure you keep a backup of all your data, if you don't want to pocket money for the data recovery, which can be quite costly. Edited December 6, 2010 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 The nice thing I like about the new Nvidia GTX 580 graphics cards, is that their power consumption its a lot less than the former generations. They new ones consume around 250 watts compared to 500 or 700 watts. So if you are planning on running crossfire or Sli a 850 or 900 watts power supply should be enough. Raid 0 is not a bad option at all, if you are a performance freak like me, but make sure you keep a backup of all your data, if you don't want to pocket money for the data recovery, which can be quite costly. Now you mentioned something i forgot, NEVER keep any important data in a raid0 array, just in case... If you don't fell like setting up a home server (you can easily get 8tb worth of space with 8 2tb drives in a Raid10 array) easy and cheap.. well cheap for 8tb... a server like an atom d510 will save you a lot of money and will work with almost no power consumption, i like to call the atoms the green server for that, just don't think about running any fancy stuff with if, go easy if you feel like running a couple of vms or something else that will need that ram and cpu horsepower you might consider getting a better server.. but that's all up to you... Great to know that nvidia is making their gpus greener.. it will save us from having a pc that uses like 1,5kw/h... (cause seriously.. try to run 4 GTX 480 in sli with a 850w PSU..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Great to know that nvidia is making their gpus greener.. it will save us from having a pc that uses like 1,5kw/h... (cause seriously.. try to run 4 GTX 480 in sli with a 850w PSU..) I own a GTX 480 graphics card, it can get quite hot sometimes, the temperatures in my room can rise quite quickly, so I have run an A/C quite often to compensate for the heat. I also have a 24 inches screen which causes another thermal issue as well, contributing more to a hotter room. In order to reduce power bills, I am planning on going green and build a solar battery system, since I run my gear 24/7 with the aircon on, that should help maintain the bill spikes to a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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