I'm going to be building a computer and was wondering if someone could check these parts for me. I have checked the compatibility myself, but because this is my first build I want to be sure that nothing has been overlooked.
I'm not sure if the CPU fan is going to be a bit too big for the motherboard as it's a microATX. I'd also appreciate it if someone could recommend a similar board as a standard ATX rather than micro.
not a very good psu you need a better make and higher wattage. You should go for seasonic,xfx or antec high current game you need 650w at most 550 at minimum.
Yeah I was thinking to up the PSU a little bit. I thought Corsair was usually a good brand, I shall have a look into the ones you suggested either way. What about EVGA for PSU's?
As for the hard drive, it's not an SSD (Happy to just have normal boot speeds) I shall consider a better brand however.
And well if everything else is in order, I shall go ahead and attempt to build this thing
Corsair is fair Psu, used to be better when Seasonic made most of them but the CX or builder series was always lower quality. I would suggest you move the ram to GSkill or Crucial as the Hyper-X Kingston ram is tricky and not nearly as compatible as Micron Ram.
Actually Chief the 550 GS, 650 GS, 850GS and the 1,000 PS and the 1050 GS EVGA are all new and Seasonic made. They also carry a 5 year warranty as well.
There are other brands of power supplies out there that are just as good as SeaSonic and carry the same warranties. Just because SeaSonic doesn't make it does not automatically mean it's crap. The best measure to find a good one is price, warranty and the weight of the power supply. Real crap ones will not weigh much at all and to low of a price is another indication of crap.
basically its down to design and the type of capacitors used. If its made with the seasonic reference design and japanese gold capacitors and has atleast a 70% efficiency rating then it should be a good psu however most seasonic units these days are 85% + with the G, S and X series being 92% +
Arctic Cooling Freezer I11 Compact Performance Cpu Cooler
Asus Z97-P Socket 1150 VGA DVI-D HDMI 8-Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
Crucial 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Ballistix Sport XT x2
WD 1TB Green Desktop Drive
Seasonic S12II 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Mini OC 2048MB (I already own one in another computer. May SLI this in the future, but will probably be in a different computer that has a stronger PSU)
Looks good although if you plan to game, especially with the 128 Bit BUS GTX 960 (unlike the GTX 760), then I would get at least 8GB of ram instead of 4GB. The difference will be in game settings, limited already by the GPU 2GB running on a 128 bit bus, and with only 4GB of system memory you will be playing everything on medium settings with new games. Go for 8GB if you can.
I actually built this thing a few days ago, and it's working perfectly. I actually swapped the case for a better one with more airflow and everything is running rather cool. The CPU fan is nice and quite/cool too and when/if my old PC's water cooler dies I'd probably replace it with another of those.
I didn't realise about the hard drive until I'd already bought the thing, I may just swap it out and use it for storage in my other PC as I need one anyway. And thinking of that, if I were to buy a better drive, is there any quick way to swap them around without having to reinstall Windows+download updates again onto the new one? I'm guessing just copying the contents over and then physically switching the drives wouldn't work. Just not looking forward to downloading them all over again, heh.
if I were to buy a better drive, is there any quick way to swap them around without having to reinstall Windows+download updates again onto the new one?
Use cloning software to clone the entire contents over to the new drive, much quicker than downloading, and saves your internet quota too.
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