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Building my first ever gaming PC - any advise welcome

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Anonymous
2 April 2013 10:20:11

So i have decided to go ahead and build a gaming PC.

I have been looking into this for a while, read lots of reviews on components and come up with the below.

I am bar far not an expert in the component department but know my way around a PC well.

Any tips or nooooooo's will be much appreciated.

My current component list:

Case: Corsair Carbide Series 300R

Power: Corsair TX650V2

Fans: Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition High Static Pressure 120mm Fan Twin Pack

MB: Asus P8Z77-V PRO

Mem: CORSAIR VENGEANCE - 8 GB (2 X 4 GB) - DDR3 SDRAM - 1600 MHZ DDR3-1600/PC3-12800 - UNBUFFERED

SSD: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive

G Card: EVGA GF GTX 660Ti

CPU: Intel 3rd Generation Core i5-3570K CPU (4 x 3.40GHz, Ivy Bridge, Socket 1155, 6Mb L3 Cache, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0)

HD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAIII 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM


*edit - forgot to list it, yes just a 500g one for now, thanks

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2 April 2013 10:26:19

If you have room for even a cheap 500GB HDD do it (for more storage). 120 GB SSD alone will fill up really, really fast. Over all everything looks good to me.
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2 April 2013 10:33:51

looks good...but ya need a hdd.
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2 April 2013 11:35:08

Cpu -cooler if you want to overclock
Well 500w is plenty
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Anonymous
2 April 2013 16:31:31

Marcopolo123 said:
Cpu -cooler if you want to overclock
Well 500w is plenty


so down grading to a 500w could be an option thank you

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Anonymous
2 April 2013 16:32:11

ARICH5 said:
looks good...but ya need a hdd.


added one, was not on the list as i have one already, thank you
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2 April 2013 16:34:38

Anonymous said:
Marcopolo123 said:
Cpu -cooler if you want to overclock
Well 500w is plenty


so down grading to a 500w could be an option thank you



Or stay with 650w, because u can add a second gtx660ti in the future... When prices are lower...
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Anonymous
2 April 2013 17:26:38

suppose my main question on this matter is the Gcard... anyone had any issues with the 660 or is it a goood card for the price range
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2 April 2013 17:29:30

You mean gtx 660 ti or 660 ?
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2 April 2013 18:57:52

don't get to crazy with your gpu choice on that corsair 650w.
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2 April 2013 19:34:39

Why
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Anonymous
2 April 2013 21:33:12

byogamingpc said:
If you check out my site there are some different builds. You didn't really specify your budget which is a good starting point.
http://bit.ly/ZvJtSP


Current set up comes to around £850 and looking around that, dont really want to go much more for now.

Thanks ill take a look at your site


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2 April 2013 21:50:56

still here different username...
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2 April 2013 21:51:53

ARICH5 said:
don't get to crazy with your gpu choice on that corsair 650w.


i dont intend to sli any time soon... but would be good to know your thoughts as the person above mentioned i could get away with lower

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2 April 2013 22:03:03

Anonymous said:
Marcopolo123 said:
You mean gtx 660 ti or 660 ?


Sorry the EVGA GF GTX 660Ti - http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-660Ti-GDDR5-Graphics-Card/...

Pushed it up from the GTX 650Ti which i had originally specced (i keep upping the components)





Marcopolo123 said:
A hd 7950 is faster, better overclockable
But gtx 660 ti is also pretty good, especially the evga gtx 660ti FTW 3gb with a backplate is for me the best looking one :) 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-GeForce-Graphics-Express-S...


like this one also only about £30 more expensive, thanks
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3 April 2013 16:43:57

so posted on some other section of the forum and

Monitor thinking of going for Asus-VS239HR

and someone mentioned lowering the MB and no need for the 660ti 3mb if going for single monitor http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1642558/evga-n... (yes i posted it in the wrong forum)

any thoughts
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3 April 2013 16:57:52

He is right
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