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OGNech

So soon I'm buying a new PC here is the hardware:

CPU: ‏Intel Core i5 3470 3.2Ghz s1155 6MB, GPU Core, Tray‎

Fan for the cpu : ‏Arctic Alpine 11 GT‎

Mother board : ‏Asus P8H61-M LX R2.0 LGA1155 Core i3/i5/i7, Intel H61, DDR3 1600, PCI-E, VGA‎

Ram : ‏Corsair 1x4GB DDR3 1333Mhz Value‎ X2

GPU : ‏Gigabyte GTX670 2GB GDDR5 DX11 2xDVI HDMI DP PCI-E ‎

Hard disk : ‏Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200RPM 64MB Sata III ST1000DM003‎

Power Supply : ‏SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Active PFC 12cm Fan S12II-520 (Retail)‎

Case : ‏Antec One Hundred ATX Mid Tower Gaming Black Case (No PSU)‎

If there is some one that understands in PC hardware can they please say if I should go on the SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Active PFC 12cm Fan S12II-520 (Retail)‎ Power supply or take a 650W Power supply ?

1 decade ago*

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MrBacon

I would go for 650W

1 decade ago
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TheRealDealReece

This. Unless you want to blow out your PSU while gaming and and risk damaging your board permanently.
A 670 needs a power supply 550w or greater, even though it only consumes about 300 on a full load, you obviously need to take in consideration everything else you will be powering such as fans,cpu, dvd, drives,usb devices ect and then add room just to be safe as low-mid end PSU can have power drop outs so the 600w+ is your best bet.

1 decade ago
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Mozendo
  1. I'd get a 3570k if you plan on overclocking which I'm assuming you are since you're buying a fan.
  2. I'd get a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus fan.

I know nothing about motherboard specs but I'd get a ASRock Z77 Extreme4 instead.

1 decade ago
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ExDec

With this motherboard he chose there won't be any overclocking. H61 motherboards are cheapest in market and are seriously fucked up. Most of them don't even have SATA3, USB3 and have no space between things (everything's clusterfucked on them).

1 decade ago
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Thrashie

whats with the 1x4gb dimm.. you should get 2 for dual channel interleaved mode

also would go for 650W.. less stress for the psu + some upgrade room

1 decade ago
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ExDec

Yeah that 1x4GB RAM isn't good thing. Well... I have something like that but just because one stick broke somehow (not in half - it just didn't work) and I didn't get replacement one yet. But for now everything works.

1 decade ago
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ExDec

Don't buy H61 motherboard! Get B75 or Z77 (Z77 if you plan to oveclock (not with this CPU though)). H61 is so bad... And for RAM get 1600MHz 4GB kit of two (will be better than only one stick). About PSU - 520W should be enough but get Corsair, XFX, Fortron or OCZ one (make sure it's 80+ though) - haven't heard that much about SeaSonic so not sure how they work. 650W one from one of those companies I suggested. If you don't need dual display support get i5-3570 (i5-3570k if you want to overclock) - will be a bit faster than this one.

By the way - if you're not buying overclockable CPU and not going to overclock - you don't need CPU fan. Default one will work as charm.

1 decade ago
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testmonkey

CPU: ‏Intel Core i5 3570k

Fan for the cpu : ‏Arctic Alpine 11 GT‎

Mother board : ‏gigabyte z77-d3h

Ram : ‏8GB 1666mz

GPU : gigabyte amd 7950

Hard disk : ‏Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200RPM 64MB Sata III ST1000DM003‎

Power Supply : ‏SeaSonic g series 550w

Case : ‏Antec One Hundred ATX Mid Tower Gaming Black Case (No PSU)‎

This computer is better. The power supply is better, you need more ram for gaming (8GB is perfect) and you will need faster ram (1666mz not 1333mz) and I would personally go for the amd 7950 over the nvidia 670 as it is cheaper and just as quick, especially if you overclock it.

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Closed 1 decade ago by OGNech.