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First sucessful PC Build!


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Well on sunday I finally got round to building my first ever computer, was a bit scary spending over £700 and worrying it won't work lol.

 

Went really well, only problem I had was forgetting to plug the power in for the graphic card but other than that runs sweet.

 

I'm using windows 7 ultimate

4 fans

intel i5 2500k (i dont know how to overclock it so any help on that would be good)

asus p8p67 motherboard

hitachi 500gb hard drive

samsung blue ray, dvd/cdrw drive

xigmatek 700watt power supply

4gb corsair xms3 ddr3 ram

asus 3450 512mb graphics card(only cheap to get me going, shall be getting a gtx or something soon)

antec 300 gaming case

22inch HD viewsonic screen

 

Heres a few pics of the build:

 

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Going to run 3dmark 06 now and will post the score up

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It's just a benchmark CJ, for geeky willy waving contests!

 

Not much different to a Dyno figure in that if I get a higher score then my PC should be more powerful than yours and thus run games in higher settings and smoother frame rates.

 

Unfortunately the results cannot always be relied upon as a certain pieces of hardware might be particularly efficient at a certain operation that the benchmark uses to measure performance and thus bloats the values somewhat.

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BTW forgot to say that you should really use the correct benchmark that closely represents the tasks you would mostly use the PC for.

 

For instance, there is no use in running 3D Mark when benchmarking a PC designed for performing well in photoshop or video editing as it will most likely have poor 3D graphics capability but it would usually excel in the CPU, memory and hard drive access benchamarks.

 

Your benchmarks on 3Dmark are comparably low due to the budget GFX cards you are using ;)

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Ah right. I was hoping for more of a "this part of the machine could / should be upgraded to give better performance" type thing. Not just numbers.

 

Yes.I am bored! :)

 

Windows 7 has something like this built in but it's results should be taken with a pinch of salt as mine nearly maxes out except for my hard drives which it moans about, even though my hard drives fast by todays standards. It's simply saying that my bottleneck is my hard drive at the moment.

 

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Back on topic though, that build looks tidy and you probably saved a penny or two over a pre-built PC of similar spec?

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Hard drives have prety much always been the bottle neck. When the solid state ones start to get cheeper it will be much better and more reliable too. I'm thinking of getting one for windows and choice apps to sit on. Then a huge conventional drive for all the bobbins I've collected over the years lol.

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Cheers guys.

 

I'm thinking of going for this graphics card my budget is 200 max. What I want to know is it going to run games like crysis at high settings?

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-104-MS

 

 

 

Cheers

 

It will run it no problems, what resolution will you run at?

 

Crysis runs fine on my Radeon 4890 OC in high settings and that card is better so as long as the rest of your rig can keep up! Your i5 should do the trick however Crysis I think is one game that does benefit from quad core CPU's - it should be fine though.

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I'm thinking of going for this graphics card my budget is 200 max. What I want to know is it going to run games like crysis at high settings?

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-104-MS

 

I suggest stretching the extra £10 for a 560Ti or 6950 - both 'current gen' cards with similar performance.

 

Your i5 should do the trick however Crysis I think is one game that does benefit from quad core CPU's - it should be fine though.

 

i5-2500k is quad core.. :)

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Cheers guys? Why whats the problem with the 3gb ports? My hard drive and cd are in the 6gb ones will this make a difference?

 

There's a chipset defect which means the performance of the 3Gbps ports may degrade over time (we're talking 2-3 years for the average user). Intel are fixing it and putting money aside for replacements where necessary, looks like it's going to cost them roughly $1bn :eek:

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It's doing my head in trying to decide on a graphics card at the min lol, theres just so many to choose and I just want to get the best one can for the money im spending basically. Im not a hardcore gamer but I want to beable to play any game thats currently out on the best settings on a 22inch monitor, as long as it can do that I'd be happy

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Intel has recalled the new H67 and P67 chipsets until a fix is available which will not ship until the end of the month at the earliest, and potentially maybe even March time. Joy!

 

That's not strictly true, is it? I thought they had set aside £700m for a recall but said it was not recalling mobos yet? This may have changed

 

http://91.151.218.11/showthread.php?t=18236550

 

It's doing my head in trying to decide on a graphics card at the min lol, theres just so many to choose and I just want to get the best one can for the money im spending basically. Im not a hardcore gamer but I want to beable to play any game thats currently out on the best settings on a 22inch monitor, as long as it can do that I'd be happy

 

Get a 5850 mate. Great overclocker and drivers are pretty advanced.

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-xfx-hd-5850-black-pci-e-20(x16)-4500mhz-gddr5-gpu-765mhz-1440-cores-dp-2x-dl-dvi-i-hdmi

 

Clock it to 5870 speeds and you'll have a beast of a card mate. I had two 5870s and can testify to their power

 

Where are you based? Happy to come and help if you need it

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