I agree with you and perhaps I should have added a disclaimer to my advice. Having said that, WOW does your post drip with douchebaggery! No one here is suggesting that you should go with the chinese psu that came out of your cereal box. If you want to be critical about my suggestion, it would be wise to actually evaluate the psu I posted rather than spew generalities.
Wow really? did you know that channel well and seasonic are the 2 primary OEMs for corsair PSUs?? pretty much two of the leading brands in the PSU business.....
I kind of wish I had gotten 860W on my PSU. I went with the 760W AX series from Corsair because the 860 was out of stock. I hope it doesn't come to bite me later. I tried looking for a video card this weekend but I just can't find one that's in stock and also for a decent price.
CPU - i7 4770K CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i (Going to replace those Corsair fans with two Noctua NF-F12's) Case - Fractal R4 Motherboard - Asus Z87 Deluxe/Quad Storage: 240gb Samsung Evo SSD (will probably buy an additional 1 TB HDD for media soon) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600 mhz Video Card: Not completely sure yet Power Supply: Corsair 760w AX760
A quick word to you first timers: The purpose of thermal paste is to fill in and overcome the air gaps caused by imperfections between the cpu and cooling device. The stuff has better thermal conductivity than air, but is worse than metal. For this reason slathering on too much will actually defeat the purpose. Tl;DR: Watch a short video on how to properly apply thermal grease
went ahead and ordered the parts today. appreciate all the responses and help. heres what i went with: processor: i5-3570k mobo: gigabyte GA-Z77 ram: g.skill ripjaw series 8GB SSD: samsung 840 EVO 250 GB HDD: WD caviar black 1 TB vid card: asus geforce GTX 670 case: nzxt tempest 210 power supply: corsair 650w 80+ dvd drive: lite-on monitor: acer G236HLBbd windows 7 decided to go ahead and throw in the SSD, figure that was prob best. that way can just put windows on it and use other drive for whatever else. apparently SSD's boots up windows ridiculously fast.
should have gotten a better monitor. whats the point of such a powerful computer when you get a ****ty 60 hz monitor..looks terrible
thanks man, appreciate your help. now the tricky part, actually building the thing! the newegg video looks like its decent enough though. if anything i'll call a friend who's built a few of mine in the past if i get stuck.
its up and running! quick question. i formatted my 1 TB hard drive...is there anything else i need to do before i start adding files to it? or can i just save/copy + paste stuff into it and its good too go?
so tried moving BF4 from SSD to HDD...didnt work.. at least not that i could tell. the two folders which have the game and origin program on moved, but when i went to boot up it asked to d-load again... EDIT: also when i moved them back onto the SSD...go to open origin (BF4 uses this program) it says its updating...which is fine..but then it loads up a bunch of .dlls and other icons onto my desktop. if i delete em, wont work...whats up with that? anyway to get rid of em off my desktop and still allow origin/BF4 run?
You can't copy/paste installed programs. You can only do that if you use a ghosting program. You'll have to reinstall BF4. Congrats on the build.
yeah boot up time is unreal. glad i went with an SSD. i might never be able to go back to a standard hard drive booting windows ever again. though whats with this SSD not coming with a tray to fit in a case slot? i mean i get most prob are buying for a laptop so they wont need it. but im sure theres a significant amount of people who use em in their builds. seems odd they wouldnt just throw one in for those people.
