Hi all
I'm a newbie to the forums and to overclocking in general. I've owned a pc since the old Amiga days (much to my dissapointment back when i was 12!) and have grown up with owning i386's, i486's (DX's and DX2's) Pentiums etc. apart from my first 2 pc's i have helped or have solely built all my other pc's but thats as far as it got. My current pc is a bit of a hodgepodge of performance...its an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 with 8gb of ddr2, 6TB's of Hard drive, a 64gb SSD, with an Nvidia GT240 graphics card. obviously this has been upgraded over the years to its current configuration and now, especially as i feel the CPU is now bottlenecking, i've decided to rebuild.
I actually wanted to buy an Apple iMAc but given the cost and weighing up the options decided to go for a pc build. Saved myself £1200 (oh i'm from the UK so most things are in british pounds where i reference a price) and It really was meant to be a bit of a budget build...but that kinda fell out the window. I can always partition a hard-drive and give it the hackintosh treatment if i need to (Intel Core goodness!!)
I'm not sure if you guys like build threads, but heres one anyway. I'm totally open to suggestion, (although most of the parts have been bought anyway)...so on to the build.
I'm trying to use some parts from the old pc, but given its age there is a limit to what can be brought over. All i'm really expecting to use from the build is the Hard Drives and the SSD.
So here are the new parts that i have bought:
This is made up of:
MSI Z77A-G45 Mainboard - £65 / $105 (thought i'd be nice and convert the costs for ya!)
The brand new Intel i5 3570K (box says unlocked and unleashed!!) - processor £150 / $240
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram - £35 / $56
OCZ ZT650 650 watt modular PSU - £70 / $110
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Cooler - £45 / $70
and the MSI N560GTX-448 Twin Frozr III Power Edition Graphics Card (£150 / $242)
I ordered a budget case (A Revoltec Sixty 6) but am still awaiting delivery of that (will be here between 1:45 & 2:45pm, its now 10am...man such a long wait!)
Cant rally do much till then so i'll pick up a bit later.
Hope you guys enjoy the build
I'm a newbie to the forums and to overclocking in general. I've owned a pc since the old Amiga days (much to my dissapointment back when i was 12!) and have grown up with owning i386's, i486's (DX's and DX2's) Pentiums etc. apart from my first 2 pc's i have helped or have solely built all my other pc's but thats as far as it got. My current pc is a bit of a hodgepodge of performance...its an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200 with 8gb of ddr2, 6TB's of Hard drive, a 64gb SSD, with an Nvidia GT240 graphics card. obviously this has been upgraded over the years to its current configuration and now, especially as i feel the CPU is now bottlenecking, i've decided to rebuild.
I actually wanted to buy an Apple iMAc but given the cost and weighing up the options decided to go for a pc build. Saved myself £1200 (oh i'm from the UK so most things are in british pounds where i reference a price) and It really was meant to be a bit of a budget build...but that kinda fell out the window. I can always partition a hard-drive and give it the hackintosh treatment if i need to (Intel Core goodness!!)
I'm not sure if you guys like build threads, but heres one anyway. I'm totally open to suggestion, (although most of the parts have been bought anyway)...so on to the build.
I'm trying to use some parts from the old pc, but given its age there is a limit to what can be brought over. All i'm really expecting to use from the build is the Hard Drives and the SSD.
So here are the new parts that i have bought:
This is made up of:
MSI Z77A-G45 Mainboard - £65 / $105 (thought i'd be nice and convert the costs for ya!)
The brand new Intel i5 3570K (box says unlocked and unleashed!!) - processor £150 / $240
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram - £35 / $56
OCZ ZT650 650 watt modular PSU - £70 / $110
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Cooler - £45 / $70
and the MSI N560GTX-448 Twin Frozr III Power Edition Graphics Card (£150 / $242)
I ordered a budget case (A Revoltec Sixty 6) but am still awaiting delivery of that (will be here between 1:45 & 2:45pm, its now 10am...man such a long wait!)
Cant rally do much till then so i'll pick up a bit later.
Hope you guys enjoy the build
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