MrHarv98 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 19-20 fans WTF?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhavefunx Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Miles here's a new avatar for you: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles! Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I spent more on fans than I did on the motherboard lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inthernet Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Bit late on the PSU discussions but Corsair's RMi and higher are great but of course, check the price with the competition. The CX is an old, lower-end product which no longer competes well with better quality supplies that have sprung up in the same price segment. (The old RM non-i were also horrible for the price). I use a Corsair second-gen HX650 80+ Gold which was shock, horror, cheaper than the worse RM650 when I built my machine. I would avoid AMD for my graphics card because their driver release intervals are horrible. This means issues with brand new games do not get fixed in a timely manner. Nvidia on the other hand is excellent in this regard. At £120, the GTX 950 would run ETS2 fine on high, 1080p with 200% scaling but it really is a budget graphics card, trading blows with the R9 270X of the same price. Easy pick to Nvidia at this price segment. At £150, the GTX 960 is approx 20% faster but the R9 380 at the same price is a little quicker. If you're not interested in playing new games, then easily the 380. If you plan to play new games though, I'd feel safer with the 960. The next price bracket is £250 with the GTX970 which would probably be over-budget. With your PSU choice, the competing power-hungry R9 390 series is off limits! Case fan philosophy. You want all your air intake to be filtered because dust is just a pain. Intake airflow should be greater exhaust airflow to keep dust out. My general experience with 120mm fans is that, they start becoming loud at greater than 1200rpm and beyond 1500rpm, the noise gets ridiculous. The cheapest way to do it is to move the included 120mm front fan into the exhaust fan slot and buy a single 140mm fan for the intake. I would recommend the Noctua A14 as it has far better specs than the Corsair SP140 at the same price range. As for CPUs, I'd stick with Intel and get the cheapest i5 that is out there which is the i5-4430. Quad core is plenty for the next couple of years and the Intel is a safe all-rounder. AMDs tend to excel on specific tasks which doesn't include gaming, while being mediocre (considering the power draw) with others. Going for the lowest i5 as opposed to the highest should enable you to go up one price bracket with your graphics card which is much more important for overall gaming performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 ^^ Intel CPU: yes. But why Nvidia GPU? AMD's R9 380 is a lot chepaer than GTX 970, and it's not far after 970 in performance. Also we're not sure how Nvidias 900-series will handle DX12 for now. GTX 970 has also 500MB of the Vram fragmented, so it only has 3,5GB Vram while AMD's R9 380 has got 4GB. Buying Nvidias 900-series now is not really clever. Nvidia have better driver QA than AMD and wider support for OS-es if OP wants to venture into Linux/BSDs. Memory segmentation of ~512MB won't do much for 1080p gaming, it's only when you start going into 4k gaming that 4G=< is necessary and then the 970 is on the slow side anyways. Nvidia 900 series (GM204-6) and R9 380(GCN1.1) is DX12_0 (Many features of DX12, including the performance improvements), Nvidia 900 series (GM200, read: 980 Ti and Titan X) are DX12_1(full support for all DX12 features) I spent more on fans than I did on the motherboard lol You and I have clearly gone on the opposite end of the spectrum in computer case sizes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inthernet Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Hmm, according to this, the 960/970/Vanilla 980 have DX12_1 http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/news/hardware/vgacards/35481-nvidia-gives-overview-of-directx-12-support.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[VIVA] Savage Frog Posted October 2, 2015 Author Share Posted October 2, 2015 That's a lot of fans you got there miles just wanted to update: the power supply has arrived today, the case and did writer should arrive any day now- all the other components will be ordered soon. Thanks for all the advice guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBar91 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/6tJrbv Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpick...bv/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£139.98 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£54.61 @ More Computers) Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£64.98 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.99 @ Dabs) Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£249.54 @ Aria PC) Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case (£40.60 @ CCL Computers) Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£44.99 @ Amazon UK) Optical Drive: Samsung SH-118CB/BEBE DVD/CD Drive (£7.98 @ Ebuyer) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (£73.19 @ Aria PC) Total: £715.86 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-27 05:59 BST+0100 I've looked through the replies and this is still your best bet, could switch the GTX 970 with an R9 390/390x, NOT a R9 380 which doesn't perform as well as a GTX 970. But whichever (GTX 970 R9 390/390x) is cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reinramirez Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 check out my signature, dont get skylake its still very pricey lets build a pc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhavefunx Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 He already ordered his computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inthernet Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I've looked through the replies and this is still your best bet, could switch the GTX 970 with an R9 390/390x, NOT a R9 380 which doesn't perform as well as a GTX 970. But whichever (GTX 970 R9 390/390x) is cheaper. I personally would not run a R9 390 with a low/mid-grade 500w PSU. The card alone draws 300w, which also calls for 3 extra case fans (2x 140mm intake, 1x 120mm top exhaust) to dissipate that heat from the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakki_slaveski Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeKnYan Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 MSI GTX960 FTW! If my post helped, don't hesitate to click that green up arrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeKnYan Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 @SavageFrog If my post helped, don't hesitate to click that green up arrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robi47 Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LWsJrH Off topic, but I wonder, can this build run pac-man at 30fps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandre Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 ^^Tetris if you lower the settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayRay5 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 inactive. locked and moved to archive "Just because others break rules, does not grant you the permission to break the rules as well" Please drive respectful on the servers. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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